Joining Sichuan Airlines starts with rescuing the captain of a powerful country

Chapter 253: Repeat the mistake of 'Ghost Flight'?

The wind was still raging.

The cockpit had long since become a disaster scene.

In the entire cockpit, except for the sound of the howling wind and the harsh fault alarm, there was no other sound.

It took several minutes of hard climbing.

Lu Qingzhou turned his head and glanced out the window.

Although there was no reference object, he estimated that the current altitude of the plane was about 7000 meters.

The altitude of the plane reached over 7000 meters, so it was temporarily free of the risk of hitting a mountain.

But it's just a 'temporary escape'.

Because the plane's navigation system is now malfunctioning.

Planes are flying everywhere like headless flies.

The highest peak of the Hengduan Mountains, Gongga Snow Mountain, has a maximum altitude of more than 7,500 meters.

Throughout western Sichuan, there are dozens of snow-capped mountains with an altitude of over 6000 meters.

The Western Sichuan region does cover a vast area, but the current speed of Flight 8633 is more than 600 kilometers per hour.

So no one knows when the plane will encounter the next snow-capped mountain with an altitude of more than six or seven thousand meters.

However, Lu Qingzhou did not dare to continue flying the plane to climb altitude.

Because the plane's right engine failed, it could only rely on the left engine to fly.

If we continue to climb rashly and increase the burden on the left engine, who knows if the left engine will also 'strike'?

and.

Planes are now also at risk of decompression and lack of oxygen.

When an aircraft is decompressed and deprived of oxygen, the higher the altitude, the greater the risk of death.

There has been such a horrific air crash in Europe.

2005年8月14日9点07分。

A Boeing 737 aircraft belonging to Helios Airlines took off from the Mediterranean island country of Cyprus, passed through Athens, the capital of Greece, and then flew to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

Just started.

All went well with the plane.

But shortly after the plane took off, ground air traffic control received a report from the crew that the air conditioning system in the cabin had malfunctioned.

Followed by.

The flight lost contact with ground air traffic control.

However, according to ground radar, the flight continued on its normal route.

10:37 am.

The flight successfully entered Greek airspace.

However, the plane did not descend in accordance with relevant regulations, and the crew did not contact Greek air traffic control.

Instead, it continued to hover in Greek airspace.

Because 2005 was only four years after the famous '911' incident.

and.

In recent years, the whole world has been shadowed by terrorist attacks.

Therefore, the unusual behavior of the flight immediately attracted the attention of the Greek military.

Could it be another terrorist attack?
The Greek Air Force did not dare to neglect, and two F-16 fighter jets took off urgently to investigate what happened to the flight.

But when two F-16 fighter jets flew not far from the aircraft, they saw a very strange scene.

On this plane, all the passengers had their heads drooped and remained motionless in their seats.

There wasn't even any reaction to the two fighter jets outside the plane.

And in the cockpit.

The captain had disappeared, and the co-pilot was lying on the dashboard, unconscious.

Then a young man in civilian clothes entered the cockpit and tried to take control of the aircraft.

The young man also kept waving at the fighter pilot.

Who is he?
Could it be a terrorist?
Just when the F-16 fighter pilot reported this strange scene to the ground, the Boeing 737 airliner unexpectedly fell headlong into the Mediterranean Sea. A few minutes later.

The Boeing 737 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

All 115 passengers on the plane, as well as 6 crew members and flight attendants were killed.

This is the most serious air crash in Greek history - Helios Flight 522.

but.

This incident also has another famous name - ghost flight.

later.

The plane's black box was recovered.

After several months of investigation, the investigation team finally reached a conclusion.

The air conditioning system of the Boeing 737 aircraft did not malfunction, but there was a problem with the pressurization device.

It turned out that when the maintenance engineer was inspecting the aircraft, he set the automatic increase switch to manual.

As a result, the aircraft did not pressurize normally after takeoff.

As the altitude increases, the oxygen content in the aircraft gradually decreases.

Eventually, everyone on the plane fell into a coma without consciousness.

Then this tragedy occurred.

What is the function of a booster device?
Simply put, it means pressurizing the aircraft.

Because passenger planes usually fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the air outside the plane is thin and has very low oxygen content.

Without a pressurization device, the inside of the aircraft would be as deprived of oxygen as the outside.

Therefore, with the supercharging device, the inside and outside of the aircraft will be like two completely different worlds.

The crew of the Boeing 737 was not aware of the problem at the time.

So when the captain noticed that the fault light was on, he thought there was a malfunction in the cabin, so he got up and went to the cabin to check.

However, the emergency oxygen supply system of this Boeing 737 could only last for 12 minutes, so the captain fell unconscious in the cabin before he could find the fault.

The co-pilot also fell into a coma without knowing it.

As for the young man who entered the cockpit, he was certainly not a terrorist.

But the flight attendant on the plane.

Because of his super strong lung capacity, he could still stay awake after everyone else fell into coma.

It's just that he is just a flight attendant and cannot fly a plane.

So I could only watch helplessly as the Boeing 737 ran out of fuel and finally crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

The current situation of flight 8633 is very different from that of the 'ghost flight'.

The pressurization system of 8633 also failed because the windshield suddenly exploded.

The aircraft is now also in a decompressed state.

Of course.

This Airbus A319 passenger plane has been specially modified because it flies on the "high plateau" route, so the emergency oxygen supply system can provide oxygen for much longer than ordinary passenger planes, which can last about 40 minutes.

But don't forget.

The plane had previously climbed to an altitude of about 11000 meters.

And lasted for nearly 15 minutes.

In other words, the emergency oxygen supply system of Flight 8633 can only provide oxygen for about 25 minutes.

25 minutes comes in a blink of an eye.

If flight 3u8633 wants to continue climbing to an altitude of about 10000 meters, it is likely to repeat the mistakes of the 'ghost flight'.

Lu Qingzhou has long been familiar with the "ghost flight" incident.

And as a mature pilot, he has long been familiar with the dangers of aircraft decompression.

Therefore, after Lu Qingzhou felt that the altitude of the aircraft was already around 7000 meters, he immediately pushed the stick to lower his head, released the throttle lever, and reset the throttle to keep the aircraft flying smoothly at this altitude.

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