British Airways passenger chaos: BBC News Review 2022

March 2, 2023



The head of British Airways’ parent company has blamed human error for the computer problems that caused chaos for tens of thousands of passengers over the bank holiday weekend.

The chief executive of IAG, Willie Walsh, said an engineer had disconnected the power supply to a data centre, and then reconnected it without following the correct procedure.

Dan and Neil teach you the language the world’s media is using to discuss this story.

Key words and phrases:
human error = a mistake made by a person
meltdown = the complete failure of a system
fiasco = a complete and embarrassing failure

For more, visit our website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/english-you-need/unit-18/session-2

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    Sajeewani Rathnayaka March 2, 2023 at 11:14 am

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  3. The Computer System of British Airway was totally fiasco due to human errors : switch of and on caused this meltdown
    Hmmm…. Let give me a comment if I use wrong gramma or vocabulary! I'm on my way to practice

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    ابتسام هداية March 2, 2023 at 11:14 am

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    Christian Warriors Tamil March 2, 2023 at 11:14 am

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  24. Fiasco is an Italian word with the exactly meaning

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