Vocabulary

• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• delivery truck
• update on: To provide the latest information about something.
• close call: A situation in which something bad almost happens; a narrow escape.
• air traffic controller: A person responsible for directing aircraft traffic to ensure safety.
• coming to light: To become known or revealed.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• going on: To continue doing something
• all at once: Suddenly; at the same time
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• strike: To hit something
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• plot: Small piece of land for a house growing crops etc.
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• incident: Event, usually unusual or important; accident
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• infamous: Famous because of something bad
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• nuance: Small, not obvious difference in meaning, etc.
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• collision: Act of crashing into someone or something else
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• vary: To change something and make it different
• utilize: To use something for a particular purpose
• investigation: Search for information about something
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• delivery: Way someone acts when speaking publicly
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• disturb: To cause someone anxiety or fear
• pilot: To conduct a small practice experiment
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• collide: To come together or crash with a lot of force
• land: Region or country
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• preliminary: Happening or necessary before a thing happens
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• constitute: To become a group of
• area: Amount of measured space
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• vertically: In an up and down position
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• datum: Item of factual information
• jersey: Shirt worn as part of a sports uniform
• radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
• cockpit: Area in (plane, boat) where the pilot, driver sits
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• touchdown: Getting ball over touch line in American football
• viewpoint: Point of view; your opinion or attitude
• thump: Sound produced by a heavy blow; the blow