At 11.35 on January 13th 2012 British Airways flight BA 0206 1) ____ from Miami to London. It ____ for about three hours, and was over the Atlantic, when suddenly a voice 2) ____ out of the loudspeakers: This is an emergency announcement. We may shortly have to make an emergency landing on water. Immediately panic 3) ____ . One passenger on the flight said, ‘My wife and I 4) ____ at each other and we 5) ____ the worst. We 6) ____that we were about to crash into the Atlantic. It 7) ____ awful. Everybody 8) ____ . But about 30 seconds later the cabin crew 9) STARTED to run up and down the aisle saying that the message 10)____ by accident, and that everything was OK. By this time a lot of passengers were in tears and 11) ____ to get their life jackets out from under their seats. Another passenger said, ‘The captain didn’t even say anything about it until just before we 12) ____to land and even then he 13) ____ what 14) ____. It was very traumatic.

Flight over the Atlantic - narrative tenses EF Upper-intermediate 3A

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