Extract 3: Air companies in crisis (music and news extract)
1. Which American airlines repair their planes in El Salvador?
a) Jet Blue
b) US Airways
c) Southwest
2. Peggy Calligan works on FAA standards
3. What FAA stand for Federal Aviation Association
4. Peggy Calligan argues that the FAA is meant to control for standards of repair but the presenter is reading a report that mentions that
a) US airway companies do not know where the planes are being repaired
b) FAA do not have data on these facilities
c) Mechanics seem to be untrained, not having the appropriate tools
e) inspectors miss problems on repaired airplanes and the facilities do not have safe storage space for the airplane parts
f) Calligan admits the standards should be improved and that they are working on them.
g) FAA has not approved all facilities yet so there are no standards for all facilities
5. The presenter reports a safety incident that a mechanic told him. Verify the details and then arrange to summarize it.
- January 23rd - Key part on the door installed backward - mechanics forgot to put door back
-spare parts were put backward - plane was diverted to Denver
