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Did you hear about the air crash that occurred in South America recently?
你有聽說最近在南美洲發(fā)生的飛機(jī)失事嗎？
It was quite a tragic accident!
真是一個(gè)悲慘的事故！
No, I didn't see anything in the news about it. What happened?
沒有，我沒看見過關(guān)于這個(gè)的新聞。發(fā)生了什么事？
A foreign airliner was attempting to land at night in a mountainous area of Argentina and flew into a hill!
一架外國客機(jī)在晚上試圖降落在阿根廷的一個(gè)山區(qū)，結(jié)果撞在山體上！
That sounds really terrible! Did anyone survive?
聽起來真可怕！有人幸存下來嗎？
No, everyone aboard, including the crew, was killed instantly.
沒有，機(jī)上所有人，包括機(jī)務(wù)人員，全都當(dāng)場死亡。
What were the circumstances? Was there bad weather, a fire, or engine failure?
當(dāng)時(shí)是什么情況？是天氣惡劣，著火，還是發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)故障？
Apparently, there were some low clouds in the area,
表面上看，是因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)地區(qū)有一些較低的云層，
but mostly it was just miscommunication between the pilots and the air traffic controllers.
但最主要的是，飛行員和空中交通管制員之間的信息傳達(dá)錯(cuò)誤。
Weren't they both speaking in English, the official international aviation language?
他們不是都說英語嗎？這是國際航空官方語言啊。
Yes, they were.
是的。
But the transmission from poor quality radios was slightly distorted
但是無線電信號不良使得傳輸有些失真，
and the accents of the Spanish-speaking controllers were so strong that the pilots misunderstood a vital instruction.
再加上管制員的西班牙口音太重，以致飛行員誤解了一個(gè)重要的指令。
How could a misunderstanding like that cause such a serious accident?
那樣的誤解怎么能導(dǎo)致如此嚴(yán)重的事故呢？
The pilots were told to descend to two-two thousand feet.
飛行員被告知要下降到2-2000英尺。
The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard descend to 2,000 feet.
指令實(shí)際上是表示22000英尺，但他們認(rèn)為他們聽到的是下降到2000英尺。
That's a huge difference, and it should have been confirmed, but it was not.
這個(gè)差異真的很大，當(dāng)時(shí)應(yīng)該確認(rèn)一遍，但是沒有。
Unfortunately, the terrain of the mountains in Norweija extends up 20,000 feet.
不幸的是，Norweija的山脈地勢高20000英尺。
So the pilots did descend to the wrong altitude then,
所以飛行員下降到了錯(cuò)誤的高度，
thinking they were following the air controllers' instructions.
認(rèn)為他們是按照了空中管制員的指令。
Sadly enough. Yes, they did.
真悲劇。他們是遵從了指令。
It was a really bad mistake.
這真是一個(gè)糟糕的錯(cuò)誤。
Many people died as a result of the simple misunderstanding.
許多人因?yàn)檫@個(gè)簡單的誤解而死了。
Wow, that's a powerful lesson on how important it can be to accurately communicate to each other.
哇，這給了我們一個(gè)深刻的教訓(xùn)，準(zhǔn)確地相互交流是如此重要。
