crisis management game.

Chapter 198 The speed of life and death

Lack of assistance last week, the cockpit was operated by Bolton alone throughout the entire process. He had to observe the manual, control the aircraft, and calculate the route, so the second half of the flight was so poor that it crashed soon.

And because of Gu Ji's participation in this round, the plane maintained the best lift-to-drag ratio early.

At this moment, the Boeing-7M8 is like a large glider, which can glide at a constant speed within a certain period of time only by relying on parameters and equipment such as speed, wind direction, ailerons, and APU.

"I can't believe it, Mr. Yasen, you can still maintain such excellent calculation skills at your age."

Bolton turned his head and looked at Gu Ji, who was many years older than himself, with a little surprise. He even respected the address a lot, but when he heard "11" minutes, his pupils were obviously dimmed.

"In 11 minutes, FL200, a 'glider' weighing [-] to [-] tons, can it really be forced to land safely..."

"Young man, since I can surprise you, why can't we create miracles together?"

Gu Ji looked into Bolton's eyes seriously.

He knew that the young co-pilot was skilled, but because he was young and inexperienced, he was prone to panic and nervous when encountering things. This was also the real gap between the co-pilot and the captain.

Although he was panicked, after all, he has experienced so many crisis levels and knows the importance of morale.

The more critical the situation is, the more Gu Ji has to stabilize the situation.

This can become an excellent special police commander.

Perhaps it was his steady voice and eyes full of experience and age that gave Bolton confidence.

"You are right, Mr. Yasen, let us rescue the 649 passengers on AM107. Now, all instructions are carried out according to the manual, and you will make oral reports. If there is an emergency..."

At the end, Bolton looked at Gu Ji earnestly, as if he was explaining his affairs, "Take over control immediately!"

"Understood! FL200, use APU bleed air to restore cockpit pressurization."

"APU ON! Oh god, thank goodness it still works."

FL200 refers to the altitude of 6000 feet, the conversion altitude of VMO/MMO is about [-] meters, and the APU is the auxiliary power unit, which is located at the rear of the fuselage tail. It has its own separate electric starter powered by a separate battery. There are independent additional gearboxes, lubrication systems, cooling systems and fire protection devices, and the fuel comes from the general fuel system on the aircraft.

At this time, there was a sound of password pressing outside the cab door, and the cabin door was opened.

Gu Ji turned his head abruptly.

I thought it was a terrorist, but I didn't expect it to be Betty, the flight attendant.

Her head was hit, her hair was disheveled, her forehead was injured and blood flowed out, and the buttons of her dark blue uniform were also broken, revealing two groups of proud twin peaks inside.

Perhaps frightened by Gu Ji's menacing eyes, Betty tilted her head back half a step.

"Oh my God, I was shocked, how is the situation now?"

"Very pessimistic, Betty, we have encountered a double engine failure. Although I really don't want to say this, please tell the passengers in the cabin to prepare for an emergency landing!"

"God……"

Betty exclaimed, her eyes filled with panic. As the chief purser, she certainly knew how low the success rate of a double-engine failure forced landing was.

When the other party was about to leave, Gu Ji suddenly remembered a question and hurriedly called her to stop.

"Purser, you need to distribute the passengers evenly in the economy class seats to prevent the plane from being tail-heavy."

"I understand, leave the cabin problem to me!"

After all, Betty was a veteran purser, so she quickly recovered from her panic state.

The hatch was closed, and Gu Ji and Bolton were left in the cab.

Bolton gripped the joystick.

"time."

"With 8 minutes left, we are now in the middle of the Mexican plateau, which is an intermountain plateau basin, dominated by grassland climate, with an average altitude of 2000 meters, blocked by the Sierra Madre Occidental in the east, mountain forest terrain, and uneven terrain, so we can't go west , find a way to find a gentle grassland, preferably a road."

Gu Ji quickly browsed the topographic map.

At this height, through the windshield glass of the cockpit, you can already see the ground, a vast green plateau with slightly undulating terrain, and the whole land is covered by lush green trees, like a thick carpet. Against the backdrop, it looks extraordinarily fresh.

But this "beauty" is full of danger for the two of them.

When the plane makes a forced landing on a mountain, these trees are equivalent to throwing nails on the highway, which will instantly destroy the landing posture and split the fuselage into pieces.

"Mr. Yasen, have you seen the grassland?"

"No."

"time."

"5 minutes."

"I seem to see a river..."

Following the direction of Bolton's gaze, on the west side of the fuselage, Gu Ji saw a meandering brown reflective ribbon. That's right, it's a river in the mountains.

"Bolton, you want to ditch?"

"This is the last resort."

Bolton's tone was very heavy.

Ditching sounds like a lot of feasibility, but it's not easy to actually do it.

There is a saying in civil aviation that "it is better to shoot on the mountain than on the water", which shows the difficulty of ditching on the water.In the world, there are many planes attempting to ditch the water, but it is best to complete it safely, but there is only one case.

It was the famous Captain Sally who completed this ditching feat.

You should know that the Hudson River where Captain Sally made an emergency landing is the main waterway in New York State, USA, where merchant ships can pass through. The water area is wide, and it was winter when he made an emergency landing.

But right now they don't know anything about this strange river, its width, depth, elevation difference, and whether the current is fast or not.

Just when Gu Ji was about to speak out to dissuade him.

But Bolton took out his mobile phone from his pocket and turned on the screen. The screen saver was a photo of him and a young girl, and he caressed the girl's face with eyes full of reluctance, "Mr. Yasen, let's take a gamble, according to my plan Come on, stay parallel to the river, descend slowly, keep level, okay?"

"Wait! Bolton, I found the clearing!"

Just when he made up his mind to die, Gu Ji suddenly shouted.

Bolton raised his head, and he really saw an oval-shaped grassland exposed in the middle of the mountain forest not far to the east of the river. Judging from the size, it was enough for them to complete the forced landing.

In an instant, hope and excitement rekindled in his pupils, "Fack! That's a damned grassland! We may be saved!"

"Yes! Bolton, we should go all out!"

"You are right, Mr. Arsen, time!"

"2 minutes! APU activated! Flap handle lowered to gear 5!"

From the manual, Gu Ji found out the emergency landing procedure for the failure of both engines, and then pushed the flap handle.

Bolton put the screensaver in front of him and kissed it, put it back in his pocket, and quickly followed the instructions he spoke to him to operate the APU, "VAPP confirmed."

VAPP is the approach correction speed of the aircraft, and is also one of the most important parameters for aircraft landing. It changes with the weight of the aircraft, landing configuration, head wind, whether the automatic thrust is turned on or not, whether it is icing or the downdraft, etc.

If the VAPP is too fast, the plane will land hard, which is equivalent to a big fat man falling hard to the ground.

"183KT!"

Gu Ji glanced at the current speed.

The aviation speed unit uses knots, which is approximately equal to 338 kilometers per hour when converted.

Bolton shook his head grimly.

"This speed is too fast. The model of AM649 is Boeing-7M8, with an empty weight of 41.4 tons. Counting 70% of the cabin, cargo warehouse, and fuel weight, it should be about 60 tons. The VAPP corresponding to the forced landing should be 163KT."

"90 seconds! The wind direction! It's northwest wind now, with a wind speed of 9.7 m/s. We can travel against the wind and let off fuel!"

"Good way! Mr. Yasen! Fuel leak!"

"Fuel leak!"

As Bolton raised his hand and pressed the fuel valve, he heard two "squeaky" sounds, and the fuel in the cabin instantly turned into two waves of air and flew out from both sides of the wing.

"60 seconds! 171KT! Spoilers in place!"

Boom——!
After Bolton manipulated the ailerons to fly against the wind, the sound of the cabin became louder and the fuselage continued to shake. Gu Ji could only shout loudly in the flight headset to prevent Bolton from mishearing.

At this moment, he could clearly see the trees on both sides of the ground through the windshield.

The fast speed of the fuselage and the blurred afterimage of the canopy made his adrenaline, heart rate, and blood pressure all rise, which soon caused a vibration warning on his wrist watch.

As we all know, this is the equivalent of driving a car.

When your reference is the side window, it will feel fast, but if your eyes are fixed on the front, it will feel slow.

The same is true for airplanes. When flying at high altitudes, you may only be able to read the speed through the instrument, but when flying close to the ground, the all-round sensory stimulation brought by the surrounding tree trunks, sounds, and the shaking of the fuselage is quite impactful!

"30 seconds! 1000FT AGL!"

"Yasen! Landing gear!"

"landing gear!"

Gu Ji repeated, quickly turning the mechanical gear lever of the landing gear.

And just as the aircraft landing gear was being lowered by gravity, there was a sudden vibration from the tail of the aircraft, followed by a snort, and the cabin began to sound an alarm: "APU failure! APU failure!"

Bolton swore.

"Fuck! Fuck! I really want to shove the nose of this broken plane into the boss of Boeing!"

"Zero hour! 500FT AGL!"

This represents the absolute height, that is, the real height. The real height is based on the ground, which means that the fuselage is only 500 feet above the ground at this moment, 152 meters!
Gu Ji hastily pressed the earphone intercom, switched the cabin communication, and reminded the cabin:
"Prepare for the anti-collision posture in the cabin! The plane will make an emergency landing immediately!"

"Ugh..."

As soon as he said this, even through a door, he could still hear the terrified screams of the passengers behind him.

At this time, the fuselage was already infinitely close to the sky above the forest, almost brushing the canopy of the trees, and flew over the grassland, seeing that the plane was about to land on the ground.

"time!"

"Zero hours and 15 seconds! Level up! Ground with minimum V/S!"

"Prepare to ground!"

Seeing that the grass was getting closer, Bolton roared, and only heard a "boom", the wheels of the nose landing gear suddenly hit the grass, followed by the rear landing gear, and the fuselage shook violently.

"Yasen! Accelerate and brake extended! Reverse and advance at full speed!"

"Advance at full speed in reverse!"

"Help me step on the brakes! Yasen! Quick!"

"it is good!"

Gu Ji stared, and stepped on the brakes with all his strength. A piercing scream pierced through the rumbling shaking of the fuselage. The rear left landing gear tire fell off, and the fuselage instantly tilted to the left. On the ground, it is like a sharp blade, cutting quickly on the grass.

A large amount of mud was stirred up by the wing angle, and the fuselage shook violently.

suddenly!

The wing broke, and with a "whoosh", a piece of white metal was swept away by the wind and waves, and suddenly smashed into the fuselage, making a shocking noise, and even the whole plane shook.

Seeing that there is less and less open space ahead, the woods are getting closer and closer to the nose.

Bolton's eyes almost popped out at this time, and Gu Ji also slammed on the brakes, his face turned red.

"what--!!"

"Ahhhhh-!!"

The two shouted at the same time, as if they were venting the fear and pressure in their hearts, and at the same time scolding the injustice of this disaster.

Click!Finally, the rear left landing gear was overwhelmed and broke completely, and the fuselage slid all the way against the turf.

chi chi chi...

The woods in front of him were close at hand, and Bolton had completely closed his eyes at this time, resigning himself to fate.

"I don't fucking believe it anymore, if you have the guts, let me do it again!!"

The veins on Gu Ji's forehead were jumping wildly, his eyes were about to split, his eyes were full of crazy blood, his feet had already stepped on the brakes to the bottom, and he watched the nose of the plane hit the forest, the trunks were broken one by one, and the iron sheet of the nose began to collapse. shrink.

The plane stopped suddenly!
hum...

At this moment, the rumbling and vibrations from the outside world all disappeared, as if the pause button had been pressed on the whole world.

Bolton opened his eyes and saw the plane made a successful emergency landing.

Turned his head sharply.

Four eyes facing each other.

"Yasen, we..."

"Hehe, we succeeded."

"Fack! Fack——!!!"

Bolton cursed to his heart's content, immediately took out his mobile phone, kissed his girlfriend on the screen wildly, and grabbed Gu Ji's shoulder with the other hand, shaking wildly with excitement, "We made a successful forced landing! We successfully completed a forced landing on a mountain!! It's unbelievable , My heart is about to jump out! Yasen, turn off all the main switches of the engine! The main switch of the APU!!"

"Me too, hehehe, fuck the shit 7M8..."

Gu Ji panted heavily and grinned loudly. While helping Bolton close the button, he pressed the earphone intercom button to communicate with the cabin: "Cabin, prepare for emergency evacuation procedures!"

"Everyone, calm down! Listen to my arrangement and withdraw from the emergency passage!"

"God!!"

"Oh! We survived!"

"Oh my God, I can't believe it! Thank you, Captain! Woohoo..."

A reminder from the purser sounded from behind the cabin door, followed by appalling cheers from the passengers.

At this time, a spark suddenly exploded in the cabin.

"God! Mr. Yasen, we have to get out of here!"

Bolton took off his seat belt and opened the door. At this time, the cabin was in chaos. The purser and the only remaining flight attendant were arranging for the passengers to evacuate from the emergency passage.

And at the moment when Gu Ji followed him out of the cab.

The voice of the system came to mind again.

[Target: Survive for 30 minutes to complete! 】

[Please choose your reward! 】

(End of this chapter)