Chapter 315 God...responded to his prayers!

Author: Mei Zixu

“Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!”

Amid a burst of annoyed curses, the cabin door of the cockpit of British Airways Flight 531 was opened. The captain David, who had just gone out to check out the right wing, came into the cockpit with a pale face.

At this moment, Xu Cang was already sitting in the captain's seat on the left. As soon as David came in, the captain Schneider, who had just changed to the right seat, naturally began to untie his seat belt and free up a seat for David.

Although he was nominally the number one captain, when something went wrong, Schneider's captain status was still not as good as the ICAO flight specialist.

Fortunately, Schneider saw the situation clearly and consciously accepted the change in manipulation rights.

"The fire in the No. 2 engine has not stopped yet." David was still cursing: "The fuel control switch has been cut off, where did the oil supply come from?"

At this moment, Xu Cang was controlling the plane to rise slowly and did not respond to David's question. Because even he didn't understand that the fuel had been cut off, the fire of the No. 2 engine never showed that it would even decrease.

However, the systems involved in large passenger planes are too complicated, and even aircraft manufacturers may not understand some of the situations, and Xu Cang is too lazy to worry about such things anymore.

Although the oil has been draining, the total weight of the aircraft has been reduced, after all, there is only one engine and the speed of the rise is very fast. However, one thing made Xu Cang feel lucky, that is, as the altitude increases, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, which means that it is more conducive to extinguishing fires in high altitude environments.

At this moment, the plane is not far from Munich Airport. It will definitely slow down the landing time if the wind is stronger. However, the time difference is about two minutes, which is acceptable. The most urgent thing is to put out the fire first, otherwise the plane's big wing will burn like this. Who knows how long the big wing can last?

When Schneider cleared his seat, David naturally sat on it, then looked back through the right side window, and said nothing.

"After we reach a height of 40,000 feet, we can only maintain that height for about five minutes, and we should drop later." David just sat down and began to prepare for landing in advance: "In view of the problem of the right wing, we cannot maintain a rapid decline rate during the descent, and the speed plate cannot be used. At such a high altitude, if you still want to land as soon as possible, you need to drop in advance, otherwise a lot of time will be spent on hovering down."

In the basic principles of energy conversion, low speed and large descent rate are inherently contradictory. For aircraft, large descent rate often means large speed. However, at this moment, the right large wing of the aircraft is fragile, and David is 10,000 people who dare not let the right large wing bear excessive load, so he must control the speed of the aircraft.

However, if you want the aircraft to maintain a relatively conservative speed during the descent, the aircraft's descent rate will not be too large even under slow conditions. The aerodynamic layout of the Boeing 777 is quite excellent, making it more advantageous than other aircraft in unpowered gliding.

In most cases, this should be a good advantage, but now it has become one of the factors that restrict British Airways 531.

The height of 40,000 feet is too high. If it is slow to underground, it will probably take more than twenty minutes. Moreover, what's even more serious is that David dares not use a speed reduction plate. The speed reduction plate is a relatively common method to increase the descent rate, which can destroy the lift of the wings.

However, David didn't dare to try it at this moment.

The speed reduction plate has a side effect, that is, it will cause the airplane fuselage to shake. That is because the speed reduction plate will block the smooth flow of airflow on the upper surface of the wing and form some turbulence on the upper surface of the wing. It is in this way that the speed reduction plate can destroy the lift of the aircraft.

However, the existence of turbulence on the upper surface of the wing will cause the fuselage to produce a relatively subtle vibration. Therefore, during flight, there are strict restrictions on the position of the speed reduction plate to rise. If the crew operates by mistake and the position of the speed reduction plate handle exceeds the flight position, the fuselage vibration will no longer be subtle, but is quite obvious. In this case, even a normal fuselage may not be able to bear it.

Of course, for normal aircraft, as long as the position of the speed reduction plate does not exceed the standard, the vibration effect it produces is within an acceptable range.

However, the aircraft of British Airways Flight 531 now seems to be less suitable for normal aircraft. Even if there is a slight shaking, the right large wing of the aircraft probably cannot withstand it. What's more important is that the vibration effect generated by the speed reduction plate is transmitted from the large wing to the fuselage, which means that the first point of shaking is the large wing, which is not adding insult to injury?

Based on this reasonable and convincing inference, David did not dare to use the speed reduction plate to increase the descent rate.

If British Airways 531 does not want to spend too much time in the sky due to altitude reasons, it needs to descend in advance. That is, when there is still some distance from Munich, you can go down from a height of 40,000 feet, and then as you move away from the core area of ​​the cyclone, you can try to break through the top height of the 30,000 feet of the no-fly zone to continue to decline.

Otherwise, it would be too exaggerated to wait until the Munich airport is approaching and then it would take less than half an hour to hover.

"Five minutes?" Xu Cang had no special expression on his face: "Five minutes are enough. Basically, if the fire can be extinguished, you will know when it reaches that height. If you lower the height, put down the landing gear after deceleration to the appropriate speed, which should increase the descent rate."

David nodded: "The biggest problem now is this right wing. As long as it has no problem, then there is no problem. If there is something wrong with it, then"

At David's level, he was quite confident that he could complete the landing of a single shot by himself. Moreover, as long as he was far enough away from the cyclone area, the impact of the blizzard on the plane would not be that great, and he also believed that he could deal with the strong winds and turbulences in the cyclone edge area.

Only the problem of the broken wing. As Xu Cang said, this is a problem that no one can solve, unless the person sitting in the cockpit is a god!

"Xu Cang, if the right big wing is broken, do you have any solutions?" After a while of silence, David still asked this question.

He knew Xu Cang's previous experiences. If those situations really happened, only Xu Cang could do it if he wanted to help the building collapse.

"The wings broke." Xu Cang, holding the left hand of the driving wheel, moved, then turned his head and looked at David: "Will you control it?"

David was stunned: "What?"

"I mean the interchange manipulation."

"Now?" If it was just the current situation, or as long as the wing was not broken, David could complete all the manipulation alone. However, judging from Xu Cang's appearance, he should only ask him to help, not to throw the problem of wing breaking to him.

David grabbed a semi-wet towel to store the grid at his hand, wiped off the sweat stains in his palm, and then quickly grabbed the driving wheel: "Receive the control."

"Transfer control." Xu Cang directly released the driving wheel: "The rudder is also handed over to you."

During the climbing process, the No. 1 engine basically maintains high thrust. Therefore, the side slip of the aircraft is very obvious and requires a large amount of left rudder input. Sometimes, in this case, the transfer is limited to the wheel, and the rudder is still controlled on his side. However, Xu Cang knew that David was also a flight specialist of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and his control skills were definitely nothing to say, so he handed over the rudder with confidence.

Now David is operating the plane all by himself.

At first, David felt that Xu Cang was a little tired and wanted to hand over the manipulation to himself, so he took a moment of rest. However, David caught Xu Cang's face while manipulation, and his heart suddenly stumbled.

It is obvious that Xu Cang does not like to hide his emotions in his heart. His inner activities can be seen from his face, such as his assessment of the current situation of the plane.

"Xu Cang, what Schneider said just now is true?" The current manipulation load is not much for David, and he can devote a lot of energy. However, the real load lies in Xu Cang's performance. Why does he feel that Xu Cang is under great pressure?

Just now, Schneider mentioned that Xu Cang had other considerations when he released a lot of oil, such as preparing for the crash.

Of course, a lot of fuel is used to make the aircraft's single-engine lift higher, but there is no need to put the fuel to only one ton, which means that the aircraft has almost only one chance to approach and does not leave any way out for itself.

The only explanation is that Xu Cang believes that the plane has a high possibility of crashing and releases the fuel in advance to prevent violent explosions after the crash.

Otherwise, once dozens of tons of aviation fuel explode and burn, the harm it will cause is unimaginable.

Generally speaking, when it reaches this point, the plane is already struggling on the brink of death. David knew that his situation is very dangerous now, but he did not expect that Xu Cang's prediction was worse than himself.

"You have no way to break the wing?" Schneider, who was sitting behind, also felt nervous: "You can fall down that time in Jakarta."

Xu Cang remained silent, but kept opening and closing his left hand, and the discomfort began to appear.

The doctor once said that the strange feeling on Xu Cang's left hand is probably not a physiological problem, because various examinations have reported that Xu Cang's hand nerves are not problematic, and he recovers well. Under normal circumstances, extremely complicated operations can still be completed.

That abnormal feeling is real, whether it is the first time that the temperature cannot be sensed, or the discomfort of being unable to unite human-machine when approaching Erhai Lake. Once may be just an accident, but twice or three times will not be it.

Now that uncomfortable feeling is coming again.

Just now, while Xu Cang was holding the driving wheel, the situation he encountered when approaching Erhai Lake came again.

On the surface, he can still complete aircraft control, and even top-notch control that many ordinary pilots cannot reach. However, Xu Cang knew that he could not achieve a certain sense of harmony with the aircraft. At most of the moment, this was not a problem, because Xu Cang's technology had reached a point of being round and flawless.

But at some special moments, this sense of disharmony is the culprit that prevents him from becoming a miracle.

Can Xu Cang be copied? Of course not!

Can flight technology be replicated? Yes!

After all, if you work hard to reach for a skilled job in flying, you will likely be able to polish your skills to a near perfect level.

Are those old teachers who have been flying for decades really much worse than Xu Cang on the technical level?

However, there are many excellent pilots, but Xu Cang only has one!

Because he is a natural pilot, when he first held the CESSNA 152's pilot rod during the aviation school, Xu Cang could feel his thinking, his thoughts, and his perceptions were in line with the airplane's mind. While other students were still practicing the most basic manipulation movements, he was able to complete complex maneuvering movements such as tail rotation modification.

Therefore, Xu Cang Fei never relied on technology, but on instinct, the innate instinct. However, at this time, he felt that instinct was leaving him.

"Is the psychological pressure too great?" Xu Cang thought.

Before, he was worried that his left hand would have any physiological irreversible injuries, so he was unable to sense the temperature for the first time and subsequent approach to Erhai Lake.

But now, Xu Cang began to shake a little because of the problem with his left hand, but under the huge potential pressure of the wing breaking.

There is an old saying that when the sky falls, there are tall people holding on to it, and Xu Cang is the tall people holding on to it.

Although David and Schneider both knew the severity of the moment, the psychological pressure they were under was completely different from Xu Cang. David and Schneider subconsciously depended on Xu Cang. They knew that they would definitely not work when the wings broke, so they placed all their hopes on Xu Cang, but they did not have that much pressure.

As long as there is support, everything is not that scary.

However, they can rely on Xu Cang, who can Xu Cang rely on?

Xu Cang alone took almost all the pressure of the wing breaking.

He didn't say nonsense just now that there have been very few horizontal stabilization surfaces or vertical tail wings that have successfully landed in history. However, the impact of damage to horizontal stabilization surfaces or vertical tail wings is far less than that of the large wings.

As long as the right wing is broken, a huge lift difference can directly overturn the plane, and there is almost no countermeasure.

Xu Cang, who was already standing at the apex of the pilot, said that the problem of the big wing breaking is still unsolvable.

"You can control it later." Xu Cang suddenly said: "It doesn't make sense whether I control it or not."

David was stunned and instantly understood what Xu Cang meant.

If Dayi doesn't have any problems, then David can land himself. If Dayi has problems, Xu Cang himself has no choice. So, in essence, there is really no difference between Xu Cang and whether to control it.

Schneider's face turned pale, but he didn't say anything more.

It is indeed a bit cruel and irresponsible to push all the unsolved problem of Big Wing Breaking to Xu Cang.

David pursed his lips, and he also heard the meaning of Xu Cang's words. The feeling of depression was irrepressible. If Xu Cang had no choice, then their destiny could only be handed over to God.

"British Airways 531, altitude FL400, and it is expected to cruise for five minutes." David did not ask Xu Cang what he wanted, but reported his intention to Milan after the leveling was changed.

If Xu Cang is helpless, then he can only rely on himself.

At this moment, in the aircraft cabin, the first class flight attendant had been arranged in the middle of the economy class, and she was sitting next to the window next to the wing. This arrangement was arranged by Captain David just now when he came out to see the condition of the engine and wings.

Since I found out that there was something wrong with the plane's large wings, the wing lights have been turned on in the cockpit. Under the wing lights, the surface of part of the large wings can be clearly seen.

The wing light was originally used by the unit to observe the ice accumulation on the wing surface, especially at night. However, at this time it became a light source for visually observing the damage to the leading edge of the large wing.

Nothing matters now. The biggest problem is that it cannot be held back when looking at the top of the right wing. Therefore, Captain David asked the first-class cabin crew who is more experienced to do nothing, just look at the right wing. In fact, Captain David wanted the cabin manager to take this responsibility, but after all, he had to take a little care of the cabin order and could not ignore it at all. Seeing that the first-class cabin crew is also an old employee, he thought he could barely be reliable, so he had to settle for the second best.

I can only say that seeing some things has more benefits than not seeing them.

If it is a more secret fault, the passengers in the cabin are unsure of the situation or cannot realize the seriousness of the incident and cause some riots. Some people have excessive self-awareness. Even when facing special circumstances, they probably know that they can't do anything, but they will still do some meaningless behaviors to add some trouble to the cabin.
To be continued...