"The altitude training is going well, " the Chelsea captain told the Prince, who also addressed Capello and star striker Wayne Rooney.

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The recorders revealed the pilots had failed to discuss repeated stall warnings and "had received no high altitude training" to deal with the situation, the bureau said.

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He talks about doing some high-altitude training in the Alps.

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Members of the Lions squad not still involved with their clubs in the Heineken Cup, the Guinness Premiership play-offs or the Magners League will head to the Spanish town of Grenada the week after next for some altitude training before heading to South Africa on 24 May.

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For those who couldn't afford the expense or time of living in one place and training in another, the altitude tents were a godsend.

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There are also varying guidelines about how many hours of training pilots must complete, below what altitude they should not hand over control of a plane and when they should abort landings.

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Worsley, who came on as a second-half replacement at Twickenham, joked that Lewsey "may have had altitude sickness or something" - a reference to his training for Everest.

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In the run-up to the first game the Nigerians had been training in Durban - which is not a high-altitude venue - before travelling to Johannesburg on Friday, giving the squad only one day to acclimatise to the conditions.

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The BEA has already issued 10 new safety recommendations, including ensuring extra training for pilots on manual handling of a high-altitude stall, and says new safety recommendations will be issued in the final report on the accident, due to be published in June next year.

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