22. What was the man s reaction to the woman s threat?
Conversation Two
M: Did you hear about the air crash that occurred in South America recently? It was quite a tragic accident!
W: No, I didn t see anything in the news about it. What happened?
M: A foreign airliner was attempting to land at night in a mountainous area of Argentina and flew into a hill!
W: That sounds really terrible! Did anyone survive?
M: No, everyone aboard, including the crew, was killed instantly.
W: What were the circumstances? Was there bad weather, a fire, or an engine failure?
M: Apparently, there were some low clouds in the area, but mostly it was just miscommunication between the pilots and the air traffic controllers.
W: Weren t they both speaking in English, the official international aviation language?
M: Yes, they were. But the transmission from poor-quality radios was slightly distorted and the accents of the Spanish speaking controllers were so strong that the pilots misunderstood a vital instruction.
W: How could a misunderstanding like that cause such a serious accident?
M: The pilots were told Descend to 2-2, 000 feet. The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard descend to 2,000 feet. That s a huge difference, and it should have been confirmed, but it was not. Unfortunately, the terrain of the mountains in that region extends up to 2,000 feet.
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