Plane needs a parachute – level 1

19-05-2014 07:00

This happens in Australia. A plane has a problem. The pilot uses the parachute. He activates it at 4,000 feet (1.2 kilometres).

People film the incident. The video shows the plane. It comes down slowly. It lands in a house’s garden. Four people are on the plane. They are fine.

People investigate this incident.

Difficult words: incident (event), land (get on the ground), investigate (try to understand).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

You can write here…

Have you ever seen a plane crash?

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