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Translate the report in written form

Variant II

Exercise 1

After reading task

Find out five kea-words and make up your own sentences.

Using Third Conditionals, make ten sentences to describe the opposite course of events.

e.g.: If the airport service had screened the hijackers' baggage more carefully, the hijackers would not have brought the bombs on board the aircraft.

Egypt Air Flight 648 was a Boeing 737 airliner hijacked in 1985 by Palestinian militants. The subsequent raid on the aircraft by Egyptian troops led to dozens of deaths, making the hijacking of Flight 648 one of the deadliest such incidents in history.

The hijacking On November 23, 1985, Flight 648 took off at 9pm on its Athens to Cairo route. Ten minutes after take-off, three Palestinian members of the Abu Nidal Organization hijacked the aircraft. The hijackers, calling themselves the Egypt Revolution, were heavily armed with guns and grenades. The hijackers then proceeded to check all passports. It was at the point that an Egyptian sky marshal aboard the plane opened fire, killing one hijacker instantly. However, in the exchange of fire, the plane's fuselage was punctured, and the plane was forced to descend to 10,000 feet to avoid pressurization problems.

Libya was to be the original destination of the hijackers; however, due to the negative publicity the hijacking would have had if flown to Libya and the fact that the plane did not have enough fuel to reach Libya, Malta was chosen as a more suitable option. In spite of fact that the plane, now running dangerously low on fuel, was experiencing serious pressurisation problems and was carrying a number of wounded passengers, the Maltese authorities did not give permission to the aircraft to land (the Maltese government had already refused permission to other hijacked planes before, such as on September 27,1982 when an Alitalia aircraft was hijacked on its way to Italy and had asked permission to land in Malta). However, the Egypt Air hijackers insisted, and they forced the plane's pilot, Hani Galal, to land at Luqa Airport. As a last ditch attempt to stop the plane from landing, the runway lights were switched off, but the pilot still managed to land the damaged aircraft safely.

At first, 11 passengers and 2 injured flight attendants were allowed off. However, the hijackers soon started shooting hostages. Omar Mohammed Ali Resaq. the chief hijacker, threatened to kill a passenger every 15 minutes until his demands were met. Negotiations were prolonged as much as possible and it was agreed that the plane should be attacked on the morning of November 25 when food was to be taken into the aircraft. Soldiers, dressed up as caterers, would jam the door open and attack that way.

Without warning, around an hour and a half before the planned time of the raid. Egyptian commandoes attacked the passenger doors and the luggage compartment doors with explosives. The Times of Malta, quoting sources at the airport on the day, said that when the hijackers realized that they were being attacked, they lobbed hand grenades into the passenger area, killing people and starting a fire inside.

The storming of the aircraft killed 56 of the remaining 88, two crew members, and one hijacker. Only one hijacker, Omar Resaq, survived

Exercise 2

Name the words these definitions correspond to:

1) when aircraft and soldiers are sent somewhere in order to get information about the enemy;

2) difficult to find;

3) to make someone do something they do not want to do;

4) a dark mark on your skin, where you have fallen, been hit etc.;

5) the opposite of activity of finding out secret information and giving it to a countrys enemies or a companys competitors;

6) are secret and intended to damage or destroy a government or an established system.

 

Exercise 3

Translate the report in written form

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Exercise 4

How should an ATCO handle traffic situation which may arise in case of hijacking?

 

 



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