Tuesday 19 August 2014

Bahamas Plane Crash Coast Guard Reuters US Small Plane Goes Down Near Bahamas

Small Plane Goes Down Near Bahamas, Coast Guard Searching For Missing Passengers.

Một chiếc máy bay cỡ nhỏ rơi gần Bahamas, lực lượng gìn gữ bờ biển đang tìm kiếm những hành khách mất tích.

Missing Passengers: Hành khách bị mất tích.
Missing (a)
1. that cannot be found or that is not in its usual place, or at home (synonym: lost)
  • I never found the missing piece.
  • My gloves have been missing for ages.
  • Two files have gone missing.
  • They still hoped to find their missing on.
  • Our cat's gone missing again. (especially British English)
2. that has been removed, lost or destroyed and has not been replaced
  • The book has two pages missing (/missing pages).
  • He didn't notice there was anything missing from his room until later on.
3. (of a person) not present after an accident, battle, etc. but not known to have been killed
  • He was reported missing, presumed dead.
  • Many soldiers were listed as missing in action.
4. not included, often when it should have been
  • Fill in the missing words in this text.
  • There were several candidates missing from the list.
  • What is missing from the production is any sense of emotional commitment.
Go down (ph. v.)
1. to fall to the ground

  • She tripped and went down with a bump.

2. if a ship, etc. goes down, it disappears below the water. (synonym: SINK)
3. when the sun or moon goes down, it disappears below the horizon. (synonym: SET)
4. if food or drink will/will not goes down, it is east/difficult to swallow
5. if the price of something, the temperature, etc. goes down, it becomes lower. (synonym: fall, opposite: go up)

  • The price of oil is going down.
  • Oil is going down in price.

6. (informal) to get worse in quality

  • The neighbourhood has gone down a lot recently.

7. (computing) to stop working temporarily

  • The system is going down in ten minutes.

8. (NAmE, informal) to happen

  • You don't really know what's going down?

Search for (ph. v.) 
1. (for somebody/something) an attempt to find somebody/something, especially by looking carefully for them/it.

  • a long search for the murder weapon
  • Detectives carried out a thorough search of the building.
  • She went into the kitchen in search of (= looking for) a drink.
  • The search for a cure goes on.
  • The search is on (= has begun) for someone to fill the post.
  • Eventually the search was called off.
  • a search and rescue team

2. (computing) an act of looking for information in a computer database or network

  • to do a search on the Internet


MIAMI (Reuters) - The United States Coast Guard is searching for four missing people after a small plane that took off from Florida crashed Monday morning in the ocean near the western Bahamas.
Lực lượng gìn giữ bờ biển liêng bang Hoa Kỳ đang tìm kiếm bốn người mất tích sau khi một chiếc máy bay cỡ nhỏ cất cánh từ Florida bị rơi vào sáng thứ hai trên biển gần phía tây Bahamas.

The United States Coast Guard: Lực lượng phòng hộ bờ biển Liên bang Hoa Kỳ

take off (v) cất cánh (related noun: take-off, opposite: land)
The Federal Aviation Administration first reported the Cessna went missing around 11 a.m. EDT, according to U.S. Coast Guard spokesman/người phát ngôn của lực lượng phòng hộ duyên hải bờ biển Jon-Paul Rios.
“I was told it had gone down in the vicinity/the area around a particular place of Freeport, Bahamas, about 6 miles (10 km) from the airport,” he said.
The plane left the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport in northeastern Florida headed toward the island chain about 60 miles (97 km) off the U.S. coast.
Máy bay rời sân bay Ormond Beach Municipal Airport trong hướng đông bắc Florida đầu hướng về dãy đảo (Bahamas) khoảng 60 dặm (97 km) của bờ biển Hoa Kỳ.
No information about the passengers was available and a helicopter crew/đội thực thăng was still searching the area, Rios said.
(Reporting by Zachary Fagenson; Editing by David Adams and Eric Walsh)

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-small-plane-from-florida-crashes-off-bahamas-four-missing-2014-18#ixzz3AnDsTFY4


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