Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 407 The slap in the face came so fast!Fire meteor hits Tokyo!

In the JCAB director's office, Nagashima Kennao was still anxiously waiting for the result.He doesn't need to contact the Ministry of Communications, but his rank is too low. It is impossible to contact Nagata-cho directly regardless of anything. This is a very rude behavior. He must first inform the chief of the Ministry of Communications. Only then can he contact Nagata Town.

However, there is a lot of pressure on Nagashima Kenzhi, and the time is too urgent. If the crew of WN3102 went crazy, they would forcefully rush to the airspace of Honshu Island. Could it be possible that Kongzi would shoot them down?

How much public opinion this has to bear, and there is also a chairman of the International Federal Airline Pilots Association on it.

Nagashima Kennao was pacing back and forth in the office. The Secretary of the Minister of Transport said that he would reply in the shortest possible time, but this was like a year for Nagashima Kennao. 5 minutes passed like this, and he would have to contact the Nagata Town person first. The secretary, waited for the transmission to be transferred, no matter how I looked at it, I felt that there was not enough time.

Just when Chang Dao Jianzhi was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, the office door was pushed open, and it was his secretary.

"Any news?" Nagashima Ken asked anxiously.

The secretary shook his head: "No, there is no news yet."

"Then why don't you rush to the Ministry of Communications, what are you doing here?" Chang Dao Jianzhi became a little irritable, and his tone was extremely unkind.

However, the secretary did not leave, but had a strange expression on his face: "There is no news from the Ministry of Communications, but there is a call from Nagata Town."

"Nagata Town?" Nagashima Kenzhi was stunned: "Who?"

"Well, his secretary called just now and asked us to confirm whether there is a person named Xu Cang on flight WN3102."

Chang Dao Jian straightly frowned into a word: "Is he also on it?"

Chang Dao Jianzhi pays more attention to Xu Cang, but he will not be able to monitor it 24 hours a day, at least he does not know that Xu Cang is on flight WN3102.

"Why does this matter feel a bit strange?" Nagashima Kenzhi became more and more confused: "Why does Nagata Town want to confirm Xu Cang?"

The secretary whispered: "According to Nagata-machi, if Xu Cang is on the plane, they can be allowed to divert to Tokyo Haneda under certain conditions."

"Conditionally mean?"

So, the secretary relayed Nagatacho's request.The general content is that after entering the airspace of Honshu, the WN3102 aircraft must fly according to a strict trajectory and altitude, and the requirements on flight data can be properly relaxed after arriving at the approach control area of ​​Haneda Airport.

If the plane deviates from altitude or trajectory on the way to Haneda Airport, it will be driven away immediately.

This requirement seems harsh, but in fact, in the eyes of professionals, it is not a requirement. Civil aviation aircraft should strictly abide by the trajectory and altitude.

"So the guy from Nagata-cho let go?" Kennao Nagashima couldn't imagine that the guy from Nagata-cho would open up to WN3102. If he was in the same situation, he would definitely not agree. Who can guarantee that Tokyo won't be the next New York?
Kennao Nagashima was willing to ask Nagata-cho’s opinion before, not because he really wanted to seek a special exemption for WN3102, but because of Richard Bayer’s prestige, if it really develops to that point, it will have a huge negative impact. In terms of influence, he can also say that he has asked for instructions and insisted on it. It has little to do with him, and he seems to be throwing the blame.

But he really didn't expect Nagata Town to actually agree.

The secretary mentioned Xu Cang just now, but Nagashima Kenzhi didn't think Xu Cang had such great energy personally.

Xu Cang is still in the rising period, developing rapidly, but the time is still too short, and the accumulation is still not enough.At least in terms of importance, Xu Cang is determined not to be able to compare with Richard Bayer.

But the person from Nagata Town only asked about Xu Cang, but didn't mention Richard Bayer at all, which is a bit strange.

"What if Xu Cang is not on it?" Chang Dao asked again.

The secretary's tone was very firm: "Then follow the ban! However, Nagata-cho means that considering the influence of international public opinion, Fukuoka and Kagoshima airports on Kyushu can be opened to supply WN3102 landings. Yakushima airport is indeed suitable for large passenger planes. It’s too small. But the bottom line is Honshu, and aircraft that don’t meet the safety requirements are absolutely not allowed to enter the airspace of Honshu.”

This change in policy made Long Island Kenzhi breathe a sigh of relief.

Previously, planes entering the border from the south could only land at Yakushima Airport if they had any problems.But the runway of Yakushima Airport is only 500 meters. For example, the braking distance of the most mainstream 737 and 320 after landing is generally more than 2000 meters. There is no difference between having the option of Yakushima Airport and not having it.

It is understandable that Japan conducts air traffic control out of safety considerations at special moments, but at least it provides a suitable alternate landing location. The choice of Yakushima Airport is entirely decided by the non-professionals above.If something really happened to this, there would be a lot of criticism in the future.

However, if Fukuoka and Kagoshima airports are opened, it will be different.Both of these airports are secondary airports, except for a few wide-body aircraft, mainstream airliners can be accepted. In this way, at least it will not be implemented, and the work of JCAB will be easier to carry out.

Of course, it can be seen from the secretary's words that the reason why Nagatacho is willing to speak is because of Xu Cang, and has nothing to do with Richard Bayer. In the face of security needs, Richard Bayer is not the reason that can be hindered.

It's easy to check whether Xu Cang is on the plane, but Nagashima just doesn't understand why Xu Cang can be the factor that makes Nagata-cho change his mind.

"Did Nagata-machi say why?"

The secretary's expression became more and more weird: "I heard the news that the Elysee Palace contacted Nagatacho, and then Nagatacho changed his mind."

"Elysee Palace?" Chang Dao Jianzhi's face changed wildly: "President of France..."

Like Nagata Town in Japan, the Elysee Palace is not a place name, but a symbol of power.

"Elysee Palace, Elysee Palace..." Changdao Jianzhi was in a daze, how could Xu Cang and He De get the person from Elysee Palace to mediate, only to hear Changdao Jianzhi whispering: "Xu Cang, who are you? "

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At this moment, over Kyushu Island, WN3102 is conducting tentative power and attitude experiments.

Prior to this, Fukuoka control allowed them to enter the sky over Kyushu Island, but further instructions were required to enter the airspace of Honshu.

Richard Bayer was not reckless at this time. Anyway, one step counts as one step. It will take a short time to fly over Kyushu Island. During this time, we will try the corresponding relationship between the No. [-] engine and the side stick.

Now it is known that the rudder and manual trim are available. These two auxiliary devices can replace the heading and altitude control of the aircraft in a small range. Of course, due to their own limitations, it is impossible to completely replace it. Perhaps Xu Cang can, But he was lying unconscious now.

Fukuoka control did not set requirements on the height and trajectory of WN3102, which allowed Xia Shuyue to try to move the thrust handle and side stick by herself to find a suitable corresponding relationship.

Xia Shuyue is talented in manipulation, although not as good as her super-top talent in memory and perception, but it is still far beyond ordinary people.

In addition, I have to say that Xia Shuyue's luck is also very good.In a short time, she found the mid-thrust throttle lever position of the No. [-] engine, and also found the corresponding sidestick position of the positive attitude of two degrees.

Contrary to many people's expectations, the attitude of the aircraft in level flight is not zero degrees, but between positive two degrees and positive three degrees. Therefore, the attitude of two degrees or three degrees is a very important value, which involves aircraft correction and leveling. base point.

When Xia Shuyue tried to manipulate the side stick, she started from the push bar. As a result, when the side stick was pushed to the front, the posture was two degrees positive, which was too coincidental.

After confirming the position of the side stick for level flight, once there is a large pitch change when pushing and pulling the side stick, return the attitude to positive two degrees, and there will be no major problems.

Previously, the pitch of the aircraft was actually not stable all the time, because a suitable sidestick position for level flight attitude could not be found, and this was solved.

However, Xia Shuyue still maintains a relatively pessimistic view on the problem of remembering all the corresponding relationships, which is really too difficult.

If it’s just descending or ascending, then you really don’t need to memorize so many corresponding relationships. You only need to remember the idle speed, full thrust and an intermediate value of the accelerator, which is about [-] and the final speed.

The posture is to memorize the zero-degree posture, two-degree and ten-degree posture.

These six data can basically cope with the cruise ascent or descent without special requirements, and even can use the zero-degree attitude to slowly descend to the airport altitude to complete the approach.

So, the problem is never here, but in the final draw or go-around.

When leveling up, under normal dual-engine working conditions, the attitude slowly increases from zero or one degree to about five degrees. This is a continuous process. At the same time, the throttle also decreases with the increase in attitude, which is also a continuous change. the process of.

The go-around does not have high requirements for the change of the thrust value, and full thrust is an acceptable setting.However, the key point of a go-around is the change of attitude, which needs to increase from zero or one degree to nearly fifteen degrees at a relatively rapid rate.

Therefore, it is so difficult to memorize the corresponding relationship between attitude and thrust, mainly for the brief moment of leveling out and go-around.This time point accounts for a very small stage of the whole flight, but it is the most important and must be faced.

Although the road ahead is difficult, in any case, everything is developing in the direction of preference.

At this moment, the Fukuoka control officer who said he was going to ask for instructions finally started to speak again, and the first sentence was: "WN3102, please confirm whether there is a passenger named Xu Cang on board."

Richard Bayer was obviously stunned for a moment, but he still said, "That's right, what's wrong?"

"If it's convenient, can you let him send a message in the frequency?"

"If you want to confirm his identity, you can find it from his ticket purchase information. Besides, it's not convenient for him to listen to you right now."

Fukuoka control puzzled: "Why?"

Richard Bayer sneered: "Because he is the passenger who was shot and is now unconscious."

"What?" There was a trace of surprise in the Fukuoka control voice, and he hurriedly said: "WN3102, we now have two plans after communication. JCAB agrees to open Fukuoka and Kagoshima airports, and you can choose any alternate landing. In addition, you It is also possible to return to Haneda, Tokyo, but there is one condition."

There was a flash of vigilance in Richard Bayer's tone: "What conditions?"

"After entering the airspace of Honshu Island, your trajectory and altitude must be strictly in accordance with the control command, and you have been arriving at the approach control area of ​​Haneda Airport, within about [-] nautical miles. If you have a premonition or fact that there is a continuous deviation, Then you must leave the airspace of Honshu Island as quickly as possible."

For a large airport like Haneda Airport, the range of the approach control area is actually much larger than [-] nautical miles.The approach control area is not a bottom-up cylindrical space in planning, but an inverted pyramid shape that gradually becomes larger as the height increases.

If you enter the approach control area of ​​Haneda Airport at the current altitude of WN3102, the radius of this area can reach more than 3102 kilometers, covering the entire range of Tokyo.However, the Japanese civil aviation agency absolutely does not allow WN[-] to deviate from the state over Tokyo without any scruples.

Therefore, the range of the approach control area at Haneda Airport they provided was planned with a radius of [-] feet.Within [-] nautical miles, it has gradually moved away from the bustling urban area of ​​Tokyo. Even if there are some problems, the harm caused can be greatly reduced.

Fukuoka Control finally added a sentence: "This is the final order after coordination, and there is no possibility of deviation."

The implication is, stop haggling.

Richard Bayer and Xia Shuyue looked at each other in blank dismay. They could feel the determination in Fukuoka's tone of control. It seemed that there was really no room for negotiation.

"Where to?" Richard Bayer asked Xiang Xia Shuyue: "If the track and altitude are to be strictly maintained, then there is no way to test the corresponding relationship, and there is only room for testing within the last eighteen nautical miles. However, we can't wait indefinitely, we can wait, Xu Cang can't wait either."

At present, the corresponding relationship between attitude and thrust value has not been fully clarified. The best way is to let WN3102 try while flying during the flight to Haneda, Tokyo, so that there will be no delay.

However, the Fukuoka control requires strict maintenance of the flight path and altitude, so the plane cannot be tampered with. It is necessary to wait until the flight to Haneda Airport is within [-] nautical miles.Then, try again.

However, the landing time will be extended a lot in this way, how can Xu Cang's situation survive?

"If you go to Fukuoka, do you think it is feasible?"

The current situation is that it is necessary to carefully consider whether to insist on going to Tokyo.If it was Yakushima, then Xu Cang must not be able to get adequate medical treatment.However, Fukuoka is different. Even though the overall level of Kyushu Island is lower than that of Honshu Island, Fukuoka is one of the best cities in Kyushu after all, and the medical level may be able to keep up.

Richard Baier shook his head: "Fukuoka Airport is too remote. If you want to go to the city center, it takes more than 10 minutes by car. However, the level of the airport hospital at Fukuoka Airport itself is much lower than that of the medical department at Tokyo Airport. It is enough. Our current location is at the junction of Kyushu Island and Honshu Island. The time to fly to Fukuoka and Tokyo is actually about the same. No matter where we go, the time will not exceed 10 minutes. Such a short time is absolutely impossible to travel from Call another doctor from the city."

"Actually, if we maintain the altitude and fly to Tokyo, the altitude is extremely high. If we want to land, we must hover over Haneda Airport to lower altitude. During the descent, we can try to find the corresponding relationship between attitude and thrust. But there should be only one chance to try." Richard Baier looked at Xia Shuyue: "If you are confident that you can determine the corresponding relationship in the last chance, then go to Tokyo. If you are not confident, then Go to Fukuoka, if you go to Fukuoka, Xu Cang's life can only be risked, and in my opinion, this risk is not small."

To be honest, both options make sense, the question is how to choose.

Richard Bayer believed that he had no room for help in finding and remembering the corresponding relationship, so Xia Shuyue had to make the final decision.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from outside the cockpit, and the captain who had gone out rushed in and said in a hurry: "Go to Fukuoka, go to Fukuoka."

He clearly heard the words of Fukuoka Control just now.The captain was extremely worried that Xia Shuyue would forcibly land without remembering well in order to gain time for Xu Cang's treatment. Wouldn't that be a joke with her own life?

If you go to Fukuoka, there are no restrictions on the flight path and altitude during the flight, so you can try whatever you want. Isn’t your landing confidence much higher than going to Tokyo?
He doesn't care about Xu Cang's life or death!

However, this sentence seemed to make Xia Shuyue, who was still hesitant, firm up instead.

Her voice was not loud, but she was extremely determined: "Let's go to Tokyo!"

Just now Richard Baier said that if he went to Fukuoka, Xu Cang's life would be at considerable risk.However, from that tone, Xia Shuyue actually understood very well that Richard Bayer was quite reserved.

Going to Fukuoka is equivalent to letting Xu Cang die!

Then going to Tokyo is the only option.

However, this involves a very serious problem.

"Just now I said that you still have another chance to verify. What if that chance didn't allow you to find the exact correspondence?" The captain said in a daze.

"Is there a difference?" Xia Shuyue said coldly: "If Xu Cang died, you, as accomplices, still want to live? After entering the sky above Haneda Airport, make the last verification attempt during the hovering descent, no matter what the result is, you will landed."

The captain's face was livid: "You crazy!"

Xia Shuyue looked at Richard Bayer: "This is my choice, Mr. Bayer, what about you?"

It is not a pity for those people in the crew to die, but Richard Bayer is innocent, he needs to bear the same risk, Xia Shuyue can only apologize to him.

However, Richard Bayer didn't take it seriously: "When I was in Europe, Xu Cang had already saved me once, and I have no objection to your choice. Let's go, go to Tokyo!"

The captain's face immediately turned pale, but he didn't dare to do any drastic actions. Xia Shuyue was the only one who showed amazing memory and perception.If Xia Shuyue goes crazy, he really can only suffer.

"Two lunatics!" The captain cursed and left the entrance of the cockpit.

"There's a bit of preparation to do if altitude and track are strictly maintained," said Richard Beyer. "On track, you can make fine adjustments with the rudder. But, in pitch, you can rely on Only the elevator is trimmed. However, the main electric trim can't be used, only the manual trim wheel can be used. But now the speed is too high, the air load on the elevator is too large, you can't turn the trim wheel, you have to reduce some speed first .Now it’s not far from Tokyo, so reducing the speed will not have a big impact, and it’s probably only a minute or two.”

Xia Shuyue pointed to the trim wheels on both sides of the console: "Is this it?"

"Yes." Richard Baier nodded and said, "You switch the throttle back to idle and maintain the attitude for two degrees at the same time, the speed of the plane will be reduced at once. After doing all this, we will enter the airspace of Honshu Island."

After all, Richard Bayer is an experienced pilot, and he is much better than a beginner like Xia Shuyue in many details.

Under the guidance of Richard Bayer, Xia Shuyue quickly adjusted the status of the plane, and then contacted Fukuoka control: "WN3102, we apply to go to Tokyo."

"WN3102, received, please strictly follow my control instructions." Fukuoka control command said: "Altitude maintain FL280, heading left ten degrees."

"We have a problem with the heading table"

"It's okay, you first turn left ten degrees based on your feeling, and if there is any deviation later, I will make fine adjustments."

Richard Baier gave Xia Shuyue a wink, Xia Shuyue nodded, she did not use the side stick to form a left turn slope, but stepped on the left rudder, forming a very slight five-degree slope , and then turn out slowly.

I made a little note of the number in my heart, and leveled it up when I felt about the same.

However, this kind of thing that is completely based on feeling is of course impossible to be accurate. Sure enough, the Fukuoka control soon said again: "Turn right two degrees."

You only need to fine-tune left and right in this way, two or three times, and the aircraft can be controlled on the correct heading.However, considering the influence of the wind, the control will contact the crew to correct the drift in the next period of time.

After adjusting the course and altitude of WN3102, Fukuoka Control issued an instruction to allow the aircraft to enter the airspace of the state, and required WN3102 to strictly maintain the correctness of the track, and the left and right deviations should not be greater than one nautical mile.

For normal enroute accuracy, one nautical mile is a generally acceptable error margin.

In addition, the controller will always keep an eye on the track of WN3102, and will immediately remind if there is a slight deviation.

In this way, WN3102 crossed the border between Kyushu Island and Honshu Island and flew towards Tokyo.

About 8 minutes later, the plane entered within [-] nautical miles of Haneda Airport. Thanks to the relatively stable airflow tonight, Xia Shuyue did not make too many adjustments and entered the approach control area relatively easily.

Five minutes ago, control was transferred from Fukuoka control to Tokyo control.

As previously predicted by Richard Beyer, as soon as the plane entered the range of 3102 nautical miles, the Tokyo control system required WN[-] to perform an autonomous hovering descent. The descent rate was controlled by itself, and the only requirement was to hover. During this period, it must be ensured that the aircraft is always within the range of eighteen nautical miles.

Therefore, Xia Shuyue controlled the plane to fly a little further, then turned the thrust to the idle setting, and then began to try to test and verify the corresponding relationship between the side stick angle and the aircraft attitude.

Since the altitude of the aircraft is too high, even if it descends at a rate of 10 feet per minute, it will take more than 15 minutes, and the attitude of the aircraft may be increased from time to time during the process of testing the attitude of the aircraft. The descent rate of the small aircraft, so that it takes [-] minutes just to descend to the landing altitude, which is too long.

Therefore, after confirming that there was no speeding, Xia Shuyue lowered the landing gear first, so as to increase the rate of descent and not consume too much time in circling descent.

Their time was very urgent, Xia Shuyue could hardly hear Xu Cang's breathing, which was a very bad omen.

However, there is one thing that Xia Shuyue has always been very concerned about, that is, when she took off from WN3102 in Tokyo, she vaguely heard a little abnormal sound from the No. [-] engine, but the abnormal sound was very slight. So much so that Xia Shuyue herself couldn't be sure.

A series of things happened later, Xia Shuyue directly forgot about that thing, but she remembered it again during the spiraling descent.

Without him, the creaking sound sounded again, and it became more and more obvious.

The confirmation of the corresponding relationship of the aircraft on the roll is relatively unimportant. Fortunately, the wind in Haneda is very small tonight, so there should be no need for a large roll correction, just use the rudder.After several attempts, Xia Shuyue found the position of the side stick corresponding to the [-]-degree slope.

The plane will circle and descend at a slope of [-] degrees.

However, with the passage of time, Xia Shuyue's inner unease rapidly expanded, so that during the verification of the pitching attitude, she actually asked: "Mr. Bayer, did you hear any strange sounds?"

"Strange sound?" Richard Baier didn't quite understand Xia Shuyue's meaning: "What kind of sound is it like?"

"It's like" Xia Shuyue was still thinking about how to describe it to Richard Bayer, but suddenly, the plane was disturbed by the airflow, and the slope increased a lot.The plane was originally on a [-]-degree slope, but with such an increase, the slope became very steep, which shocked Xia Shuyue a little.

This wasn't a big problem at first, but Xia Shuyue's right hand was resting on the throttle lever.

Although both engines have idle thrust, the positions of the throttle levers are different.The throttle lever of the No. [-] engine is about five or six degrees ahead of the idle position, while the No. [-] engine is almost in the middle position.

Most of Xia Shuyue's right hand rests on the throttle lever of the No. [-] engine. Xia Shuyue, who was slightly startled by the airflow disturbance, unconsciously moved the throttle lever of the next engine, and now directly received the throttle lever of the idle car. bit.

However, the idle position of the throttle lever is not corresponding to the idle thrust, and the power of the No. [-] engine, which was originally running weakly, suddenly increased like a raging fire, and the power increased instantly.

The idle position of the throttle lever of the No. [-] engine corresponds to a large thrust value!
Xia Shuyue reacted the moment the thrust of No. [-] engine changed, and immediately wanted to adjust the thrust of No. [-] engine back.

However, before she could move, there was a loud bang, and a fan blade in the No. [-] engine actually broke and was thrown out at the same time, cutting into the fuselage immediately.

Then, the skin that was supposed to contain the receiver actually cracked directly from below. Under the impact of the airflow, the fragile skin was torn on the spot, exposing the core of the engine.

Along with the breakage of the low-pressure fan, some fragments entered the core machine.For the extremely precise engine core machine, if such a hard solid substance is inhaled, the high-pressure turbine in it is immediately stuck, and part of the flame in the combustion chamber is released from the tail nozzle, and the other part is returned to the intake port, from Flame spewed out of it uninterruptedly.

Under the dark night sky, WN3102 hit the ground like a meteor.

Xia Shuyue couldn't know how the No. [-] engine blade broke, but she could clearly feel the serious damage to the engine caused by this problem.The impact like an explosion directly spread to the entire fuselage, causing the originally stable plane to lose control on the spot.

Xia Shuyue's reaction was fairly quick, she took the lead in correcting the plane's slope by relying on her memory, and then planned to correct the plane's condition.

But suddenly, the cool air from the oxygen mask stopped abruptly, and the oxygen mask that originally symbolized life and survival directly became the sickle of death.

Because the oxygen mask is well sealed, Xia Shuyue immediately felt a strong sense of suffocation after no oxygen supply. She desperately wanted to take off the oxygen mask, but the hose of the mask needs to be inflated first. But now the oxygen system seemed to be damaged, unable to inflate the hose, and the mask was stuck on Xia Shuyue's face like an octopus.

Under the impact of the terrified suffocation, Xia Shuyue inadvertently touched the sidestick with her left hand, and the plane, which was originally at a posture of about zero degrees, suddenly formed a posture of about two degrees minus, and the plane dived down like a wild horse. go.

Fortunately, Richard Baier, who was sitting in the back, was not wearing an oxygen mask. After discovering the problem, he immediately unbuckled his seat belt and wanted to help Xia Shuyue take off the oxygen mask.

However, Xia Shuyue did not accept Richard Baier's help in fear, but shouted loudly: "Xu Cang, pick it off for Xu Cang first!"

This time, Richard Bayer reacted.

Xia Shuyue could hold on a little longer, but Xu Cang couldn't, and Xu Cang had to be suffocated to death this time.

However, Richard Baier did not notice that due to the impact of the explosion, Xia Shuyue did not head towards Haneda Airport after leveling the plane, but dived obliquely in the opposite direction.

Outside the windshield, a towering iron tower stands in the middle of the plane's course.At this time, the lights on the tower are bright, but it can be vaguely recognized that it is a red and white tower, which is very similar to the Eiffel Tower.

This is Tokyo Tower!

Thinking back to this morning's hearing, Xu Cang cited the possibility of "a plane crashing into the Tokyo Tower" as an example.

However, in just a few hours, it was a prophecy!
(End of this chapter)