Vocabulary

• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• destination: The place you are traveling to
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• incident: Event, usually unusual or important; accident
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• border: To be right next to another country or state
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• mission: A task or role someone is given to do
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• staff: Employees of a company
• verify: To prove that something is right, accurate or true
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• deploy: To put into position (often a military operation)
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• flight: Act of leaving a place, usually to escape danger
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• traffic: The cars or vehicles on the road
• studio: Place for painting, broadcasting, etc.
• helicopter: Aircraft with spinning blades at the top
• technical: Complex; difficult to understand
• regional: Of a particular area, not the whole of a country
• governor: Person who leads a state or province
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• shortly: Quickly; soon; in a moment
• fuselage: Main part of an airplane, not the wings
• tinder: Material for starting a fire
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
• hotline: Telephone line that gives direct, fast access