CNN News: 獅航計劃取消波音訂單

Hi, I’m Carl Azuz and welcome to CNN 10. It’s always good to see you. A growing number of countries around the world are grounding a popular type of passenger plane and that’s the first story we’re explaining. On Sunday an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after take off in the capital of Ethiopia. All 157 people aboard were killed. It happened less than six months after an incident on October 29th when a Lion air flight crashed shortly after take off in the capital of Indonesia.

大家好，我是卡爾·阿祖茲，歡迎收看CNN 10分鐘新聞。見到大家總是很高興。今日頭條，越來越多的國家正在停飛一種受歡迎的客機。周日，一架埃塞俄比亞航空公司的航班在埃塞俄比亞首都起飛后不久墜毀。機上157人全部遇難。10月29日，一架雄獅航空公司的航班在印尼首都起飛后不久墜毀。

All 189 people aboard that flight were killed. The one thing these two flights have in common is that they were aboard new models of the same airplane, a Boeing 737 Max 8. It was introduced two years ago. It’s a very technologically advanced jet and it might be that technology that’s causing its problems.

機上189人全部遇難。這兩架飛機有一個共同點，那就是它們搭載的是同一架飛機的新型號，即波音737 Max 8。它是兩年前推出的。這是一架技術非常先進的飛機，可能正是這項技術導致了墜機問題。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Boeing bills its 737 Max as the fastest selling airplane in the company’s history. A high tech single aisle jet, there are more than 5,000 on order for 100 airlines world wide. Many of them are in China and India. The 737 has a long history since the first twin jet was introduced in 1967. It’s grown into the best selling line of commercia Baby Boeing l jets in history. The Max 8 variant, launched in 2017 seats up to 200 passengers. It was designed to offer airlines greater range, better fuel efficiency from the models that came before. Like any new series, Boeing introduced brand new technology and features into the 737 series including the automatic safety system.

波音公司將其737 Max列為公司歷史上銷售最快的飛機。這是一架高科技單過道飛機，全球100家航空公司訂購了5000多架。其中許多在中國和印度。自從1967年波音推出第一架Baby Boeing l飛機以來，737已經有很長的歷史。它已經成長為歷史上最暢銷的商用飛機系列。2017年推出的Max 8改型最多可容納200名乘客。它的設計目的是為航空公司提供更大的范圍，更好的燃料效率。像任何一個新系列一樣，波音公司引進了全新的技術

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This particular aircraft has a new - - something new as far as how the autopilot responds when the angle of attack, when the aircraft nose goes up too high it pushes that nose down even when the autopilot’s off. And a lot of pilots aren’t used to that.

這架特殊的飛機有一個新的東西——關于自動駕駛儀在攻角時的反應，當飛機的機頭升得太高時，即使自動駕駛儀已經關閉了，它會把機頭往下推。很多飛行員還不習慣這一點。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the case of Lion Air, Indonesia investigators say pilots repeatedly fought to override that system before the fatal crash of the plane back in October. The preliminary crash report said, 40 sensors that the automated system to push the nose of the plane down again and again. It’s not clear why the pilots did not follow the recognized procedure and turn the system off. Now this crash, the second in a brand new model plane shortly after takeoff. It’s provoking more questions about the planes design and what Boeing has told the airlines.

在獅航的案例中，印尼調查人員說，在去年10月發(fā)生致命墜機事件之前，飛行員曾多次試圖推翻該系統(tǒng)。初步墜機報告稱，40個傳感器顯示，自動系統(tǒng)將飛機的機頭一而再再而三地推下去。目前尚不清楚為什么飛行員沒有按照公認的程序關閉系統(tǒng)。這次墜機是一架新型飛機發(fā)生的第二起墜機事故。這引發(fā)了人們更多關于飛機設計和波音公司的問題。