LJ 1 SB - Damage and repair

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• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Damage and repair

Lesson goals

• You can name different types of damage at a plane.
  
• You can answer questions while listening to a video.
  
• You describe several plane crashes, and how to prevent them in the future.

What kind of damage do you see? 

What would you call it? 

What kind of damage do you see? 

What would you call it? 

Can you name anymore damages that you've seen or know about?
e.g. "ripped" jeans

Exercise 1 -Vocabulary 

What kind of damage can you already recognize from a plane?

• Go to exercise 1 (p.65-66)
•  Name each kind of damage at a plane

Exercise 1 - Answers

1. Dented nose
   
2. Corrosion
   
3. Cracked fuselage
   
4. Shattered windscreen
   
5. Torn off wing tip
   
6. Snapped cable
   
7. Collapsed nose gear
   
8. Blown out tire / puncture / flat tire
   
9. Squashed or crushed pipe
   

Exercise 2 - Listening (p. 67)

Before you start a listening exercise, you must:

• Read the questions
  
• Think about what you already know about the subject
  

Go to exercise 2 and answer the questions while watching the video.

Questions :

1. What is the most important part of the wing?

2. What did they have to do before they repaired the wing?

3. Which two parts did they take off before they repaired the wing?

4. What did they use the forklift for?

5. What is the use of a jig?

6. Did the plane break down at this airport or a different airport?

7. What did they find when they opened up the wing?

8. What kind of other work will they do on the plane, next to the wings?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bWj_eIxcWc 

Exercise 2 - Listening

1. What is the most important part of the wing?

The spar

2. What did they have to do before they repaired the wing?

Make sure there wasn’t a prop strike first.

3. Which two parts did they take off before they repaired the wing? 

The flap and the aileron

Exercise 2 - Listening

4. What did they use the forklift for?

To support the wing and bring it down

5. What is the use of a jig?

To hang up the wing so it can be repaired

6. Did the plane break down at this airport or a different airport?

A different airport, there they put in a quick fix and here the wing will be properly repaired.

Exercise 2 - Listening

7. What did they find when they opened up the wing?

One of the stringers was bend.

8. What kind of other work will they do on the plane, next to the wings?

Replace the windows, repaint, gap seals for the flaps, a new glare shield

Exercise 3&4- Reading

(p.68-76)

• What is the subject of this text?
  
• What kind of information do you expect to find in this text?
  
• Is it an informative, amusing or argumentative text?
  

- Exercise 3: fill in the gaps

- Exercise 4: scan the text and answer the open questions

Exercise 3 - Fill in the gap

1. Components
   
2. Data
   
3. Calculate
   
4. Through
   
5. Supply
   
6. Thrust
   
7. Rated
   
8. Limit
   
9. Commended
   

10. crew

11. levers

12. position

13. open

14. fuel

15. computer

16. displays

17. maintenance

18. detected

19. switch

Exercise 4 - Reading

1. Why were previous accidents with planes good for the current flights?

Previous accidents triggered crucial safety improvements, which led to less accidents in aviation.

2. What is the function of the TCAS II collision-avoidance systems in small aircraft?

This detects potential collisions with other transponder-equipped aircraft and advise pilots to climb or dive in response.

3. Was the crash of the United Flight 173, a DC-8 approaching Portland, Ore., with 181 passengers a mechanical fault or the fault of the pilot?

It started with a mechanical fault (landing gear problem), but eventually the plane crashed because the captain waited too long to begin his final approach. In the end, the crash was caused by a human.

Exercise 4 - Reading

4. Name two measures which were taken after the Air Canada 797, a DC-9 flying at 33,000 ft. en route from Dallas went up in flames.

Aircraft lavatories have to be equipped with smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers. Within five years, all jetliners were retrofitted with fire-blocking layers on seat cushions and floor lighting to lead passengers to exits in dense smoke. Planes built after 1988 have more flame-resistant interior materials.

5. What is a microburst wind shear?

A strong downdraft and abrupt shift in the wind.

6. What was the cause of the United Airlines flight 232 crash?

The engine in the tail of the DC-10 suffered engine failure, severing the plane's hydraulic lines and rendering the plane virtually uncontrollable. The NTSB later determined that the accident was caused by a failure by mechanics to detect a crack in the fan disk that ultimately was traced back to the initial manufacture of the titanium alloy material.

Exercise 4 - Reading

7. How many fatigue-related accidents have happened after the Aloha Flight 243?

Only one.

8. Was it immediately clear who or what caused the accident of the USAir Flight 427?

No, it took nearly five years for the NTSB to conclude that a jammed valve in the rudder-control system had caused the rudder to reverse: As the pilots frantically pressed on the right rudder pedal, the rudder went left.

9. When were smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers in the cargo holds installed? After the crash of ValuJet 592 into the Everglades.

Exercise 4 - Reading

10. Which two changes to promote the safety of the plane were taken after the TWA flight 800? 

The FAA mandated changes to reduce sparks from faulty wiring and other sources. Boeing, meanwhile, has developed a fuel-inerting system that injects nitrogen gas into fuel tanks to reduce the chance of explosions.

11. Did the Air France Flight 447 prove that the pilot is better to fly the plane than the fly-by-wire technology, or the other way around?

Sometimes the pilot is better off flying the plane. With the wreckage now found, the evidence led experts to conclude the crash was caused by the pilots' failure to take corrective action to recover from the stall.  The findings cast a harsh light on fly-by-wire technology and its reliance on computers, rather than humans, to make the final call on flight decisions.  

12. Is it clear why the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took detours from the route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing?

No, because the plane crashed in the ocean and hasn’t been found since

Go to exercise 5 and write a report about the crash. Include: What caused the crash, how did the crash take place, when did the ATC tower or others first learn that the plane was in trouble, what could have prevented the crash, how many people were killed, what kind of measurements are taken to prevent another crash like this.

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Conclusion

Study the vocabulary list in your reader!