VOA慢速英语：在非洲发生航空事故的可能性更大

Africa has about 5 percent of global air traffic but 20 percent of accidents and deaths in 2014.

在全球空中交通中，非洲约占5%，但在2014年，其空中交通事故与死亡率为20%。

Siddi Kone is an air navigation safety expert. He says many small airline companies that operate south of the Sahara Desert fail to follow international air navigation rules. He says they sometimes do not know where their planes are located.

Siddi Kone是一位空中导航安全专家。他表示，在撒哈拉沙漠以南运营的许多小型航空公未能遵循国际航空导航规则。他说，它们有时并不知道自己飞机的位置。

An investigator (back) works near the wreckage of a military plane which crashed near the village of Ouled Gacem in eastern Algeria, about 500km (311 miles) from the capital Algiers on February 12, 2014. The military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives crashed into a mountain, killing 77 people, the worst air disaster in the North African country in a decade. (REUTERS/Louafi Larbi)

He says air traffic coordination and communication must improve. He says planes cannot travel on the same routes as they fly over the continent.

他声称必须改善空中交通的协调与沟通。他说，当他们飞过大陆时，飞机不能在同一路线飞行。

Osei Bonsu is an expert on aviation in Africa. He says countries must work together to locate plane crashes and rescue survivors. He says training is needed to manage air traffic as flights in and out of Africa increase.

Osei Bonsu是非洲民航业的一位专家。他表示各国必须共同努力，定位飞机失事地点并对幸存者进行救援。他还表示，由于飞往非洲的往返航班不断增加，对于管理空中交通，进行培训是非常有必要的。

Air traffic controllers in Africa say they do not have enough workers, and they lack good communication equipment. Air traffic safety experts who gathered in Cameroon this week said some air traffic controllers use mobile phones to communicate with pilots. Visit the website www.chinavoa.com to get more information!

非洲的空中交通管制员表示，他们没有足够的工作人员，并且缺乏良好的通讯设备。本周，空中交通安全专家们聚集在喀麦隆，他们表示一些空中交通管制员使用手机与飞行员进行沟通。

Some of their other concerns include the loss of power at airports and animals on runways.

他们的一些其他问题包括在机场电的损耗及跑道上的动物。

Air traffic safety and security experts say they need more investment and training to improve the safety of air travel in Africa.

空中交通安全和保障专家表示他们需要更多的投资与培训，以提高非洲航空旅行的安全性。

I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.

我是克里斯托弗·琼斯- 克鲁斯。

Do you fly in and out of Africa? How was your experience? Please tell us in the comments below oron our Facebook page.

Correspondent Moki Edwin Kindzeka reported this story from New Delhi. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted it for Learning English. Kathleen Struck was the editor.

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Words in This Story

coordinate – adj. to make arrangements so that two or more people or groups of people can work together properly and well

navigation– n. the act, activity or process of finding the way to get to a place when you are traveling in a ship, airplane or car; the act of piloting a plane or ship

runway– n. a long strip of ground where airplanes take off and land