Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 189 The World Is Big!Nowhere to fall! (Please subscribe!)
In the tower control room of Jakarta Airport, a controller is verifying the information of the relevant departments of the airport to determine whether the airport can receive another 747 aircraft for backup.

Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport was built 15 years ago, but because there are two other old airports nearby, the passenger traffic cannot be counted as much.As a result, the airport has never been reasonably expanded despite the slow growth of passenger traffic.

So far, this international airport has begun to show congestion, otherwise it would not have been reviewed for so long after receiving the temporary alternate landing request of the 747.

After receiving the return application of British Airways flight 1009 under area control, the tower controller needs to first check with the apron to see if there is a suitable parking space for 747, and also check his own schedule.

Most of the flights need to be notified in advance to the control side whether they are in normal execution or alternate landing and return, which involves the command handover of the control side.Because the position of control is highly planned, it is fine if it is idle time, but if a plane that needs additional command is suddenly inserted during extremely busy hours, it will be a disaster for the controller.

Therefore, after confirming that the apron can provide relevant parking spaces, the tower controllers will deploy in advance according to the take-off and landing plans they have obtained, to see if they can call out an extra landing slot.

Although British Airways 1009 has declared a state of emergency, many things need to be prioritized, but controllers cannot be required to accept deployment tasks beyond their own objective capabilities.

Moreover, the more terrible thing is that the aircraft type of the return flight is 747. If it is 737, there may not be so many problems.

First of all, there is a wake in the aircraft, and roughly speaking, the wake of the aircraft is directly related to the total weight of the aircraft.Therefore, the wake of a heavy aircraft like a 747 can be extremely strong.Such a degree of wake turbulence will cause great distress to subsequent aircraft, and in severe cases, it may even cause unexpected safety problems.

Therefore, the control interval for heavy aircraft needs to be much larger than that of other passenger aircraft. Of course, according to the requirements of the air traffic management bureaus of various countries, the radar control interval will be appropriately different.However, it is undeniable that the interval requirement of 747 is much larger than that of 737.In most cases, except for heavy aircraft, the wake interval of the same type of aircraft is about 2 minutes, and if it is following a heavy aircraft, it has to be added to 3 minutes, adding a regular interval out of thin air.

For a crowded airport like Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta, where the capacity of the airport is not enough for the actual flight volume, the terminal area is already quite busy, and it is really not easy for the controller to create a gap between heavy aircraft matter.

Fortunately, there were not many flights taking off and landing during this time period. The tower controller made some adjustments, and then sent the adjusted schedule to the director of the control room. After confirming that there was no problem, he sent the information of British Airways 1009 to the ground. , the apron and the ground service department so that they can be prepared in advance.

After everything was arranged, the tower controller planned to call the area control room, saying that British Airways 1009 could be received.

At this moment, the colleague next to him, another tower controller wearing a headset said: "Garuda 6711, the ground is calm, and runway 27 can land."

The tower controller glanced at his colleague's radar screen. The aircraft of Garuda Indonesia was less than four nautical miles away from the runway. The command interval is really small.

"Runway 27 can land, Garuda 6711." The crew quickly replied, but then asked again: "Tower, please confirm the height of the cloud base at this field."

"OVC020, Garuda 6711!"

OVC020 means that the sky is full of clouds at [-] feet. There is basically no problem with this kind of cloud base height, because the cloud base height requirement for most types of ILS is only [-] feet.

"According to the height-to-distance ratio of this plane, it should be out of the clouds now, can you see the runway?" the tower controller muttered casually.Although my colleagues are wearing headphones, the quality of these headphones is actually not good. If the volume is set a little higher, it can almost achieve the effect of loudspeaker. As long as you get close, you can hear the sound in the headphones roughly.

Now Garuda’s plane is less than four nautical miles away from the runway, and the descent angle on the fifth side of runway 27 is the most standard three-degree glide angle, so as long as the plane is strictly on the glideslope, the plane’s altitude should be more than 1000 feet , was below the clouds.

After finishing speaking, he took a picture of the colleague who commanded the Garuda aircraft just now: "What is the phone number of the Jakarta area control room? I don't know why I can't find the phone record here."

The Jakarta Regional Control Office called just now. It stands to reason that the call record should be generated on the landline, so he can just call back.However, he searched for a while, but found no relevant records at all, which was a bit strange.

However, it doesn't hurt too much.The terminal control of the domestic area control room will generally have a record of the phone call.Just like many pilots' mobile phone contacts, they often leave some numbers of airport ground service, bridges, and even control towers.

It's just that the controller is usually lazy and doesn't take notes. Now he needs to use it, so he asked his colleagues temporarily.

"Maybe there are some broken clouds." The colleague laughed, and had already started to flip through his little notebook.

In the weather forecast, according to the amount of cloud, it will be divided into few clouds, sparse clouds, cloudy, full of clouds and so on.However, sometimes there are independent small cloud clusters that are not included in the calculation, and it happens that the aircraft enters such cloud clusters again, so the crew feels strange why they can't see the runway when they should be out of the cloud cover.

After searching for a while, my colleague finally found the number of the Jakarta regional control room, and was about to report it to the tower controller.However, out of the corner of his eye, he accidentally glanced at his radar, and was immediately stunned.

On the radar screen, the Garuda 6711 aircraft of Garuda no longer dropped in altitude, and within a moment of reaction time, it turned to climb again.

The colleague put down his notebook and subconsciously said, "Go around?"

"Huh?" The tower controller also looked at the radar screen of his colleague, and at the same time, the voice of the crew came from his earphone: "Garuda 6711, go around!"

As soon as the colleague heard that it was a go-around, he quickly pushed the notebook aside and started working, commanding: "Garuda 6711, adjust the sea pressure to 1012 feet according to the standard go-around procedure, and correct the sea pressure to [-]."

"In the standard go-around procedure, the sea pressure is corrected to 1012, and the sea pressure is revised to [-]!" the crew quickly repeated.

"Garuda 6711, why did you go around?"

This is what the tower controller must ask, because if it is some external factors, such as the final airflow, such as wind shear, such as encountering unidentified floating objects, if this is the case, this kind of information needs to be provided to the follow-up aircraft or let the airport aspect is processed.

The crew of Garuda Airlines seemed to be quite comfortable, and immediately replied: "The runway is invisible! Tower, is there something wrong with your cloud height measuring instrument! We didn't have the slightest visual sign until the decision height of [-] feet. Didn't even see the ground."

Normally, in low visibility conditions, the pilot sees the ground first, then the approach lights, and finally the runway.If you can't even see the ground, it's almost a star.

"Oh, I got it!" After the colleague replied, he exchanged looks with the tower controller next to him.

The tower controller couldn't figure out the situation himself: "That's not right! Even if there are some broken clouds, it won't be impossible to see the ground, right?"

The broken clouds that are not considered are usually very thin, and some even in the clouds can vaguely see the situation below through the clouds.

But if the broken cloud is so thick that it has greatly blocked the crew's line of sight, the cloud height measuring instrument will not ignore it.The ground condition cannot be seen at two hundred feet, which is considered to be below the edge of the weather condition.

The crew's visual observation of the cloud base below [-] feet is not a stark difference from the previously released [-] feet of cloudy sky.

If it weren't for a problem with the cloud height measuring instrument, the cloud base height in this field would be lower than the first-class standard, and the airport would have to consider opening up the operation of second-class blind landing approaches. The involvement is still quite obvious.

The operation of the second category of blind landing is different from the general first-class standard. It not only has requirements for the aircraft itself, but also has special requirements for the qualification of the crew itself. Not all flights can operate the second-class.If it is to operate the second category, it is not only a matter of the field, but also has to contact the approach control seat in advance, and the process is more troublesome.

The colleague thought for a while: "You have called the regional control office, and then contact the field management to let them see if there is any problem with the cloud height measuring instrument."

The tower controller nodded, looked at the pitch-black outside world through the glass of the tower, and thought in his heart: "I hope nothing will happen!"

The cockpit of British Airways Flight 1009 was filled with an almost frozen atmosphere. Just now, when the captain was translating for Xu Cang, his mood changed from doubt to shock and finally to uncontrollable.

Xu Cang had never been in the cockpit before, and he had never known everything about the plane, but in less than 2 minutes after entering, he guessed the status of the plane by relying on the changes of various switches. Eight.

No, it's not random, but it fits perfectly with the facts.

Is this Xu Cang's strength?
Xu Cang frowned: "Is there a problem?"

The captain let out a long breath, suppressed the already chaotic heart, and then calmly looked at the co-pilot on the right.

The co-pilot's face was juggling since Xu Cang began to describe the problem of the plane, and finally he turned his head to meet the indifferent eyes of the captain.

The two looked at each other, as if the air had condensed, and then there was an awkward and ugly atmosphere.

In the end, the co-pilot was completely unable to defeat the silent suppression of the captain, so he could only glance at Xu Cang, and began to take off his seat belt, which meant that he had compromised.

Seeing that the co-pilot finally did not stand up, the captain also breathed a sigh of relief.If the co-pilot was dead and refused to move his seat, then he really didn't have a good solution.

Just at this moment, there was a sound of going downstairs from the work room in the front cabin, and the purser looked along the stairs, and it turned out that the second captain who was resting on the second floor heard the sound and came down.

"Captain!" The flight attendant nodded slightly towards the second captain.

As soon as the second captain came to the workshop, he immediately noticed the open cockpit door and Leo standing at the cockpit door.

The second captain also received a special notice from the company headquarters, so he recognized Leo at first glance, and greeted Leo politely, then looked at the flight attendant, and asked casually: "Is there someone in front?" Are you going to the bathroom?"

The second captain thought that the opening of the cockpit door was for the convenience of some crew members who wanted to come out. This is a relatively common reason.

"No!" The purser had a strange expression on her face, and she was a little confused about the situation now.

"Huh?" The second captain was suspicious, and when he walked to the door of the cockpit, he found a young man who appeared to be East Asian sitting in the right seat, while the original co-pilot had already moved from his seat. Exit and stand in the aisle.

The second captain's mind was blank for a while, and he shouted into the cockpit: "What's going on, what are you doing?"

While he was talking, his eyes moved down, and when he saw that the fuel control switch of the No. [-] engine had been disconnected, he was in a bad mood.

Just now, he was awakened by hearing the muffled explosion, so he packed up and went down to check the situation. Why did the No. [-] engine just shut down?

The captain in charge heard the movement outside the cabin door and looked back, just in time to meet the puzzled and questioning eyes of the second captain, and was about to explain, only to hear a commotion from the rear of the cabin, and vaguely heard someone shouting in a panic: " Fire, fire!"

"What?" Before the second captain had time to find out what happened in the cockpit, it seemed that there was a fire in the cabin, which was a fatal thing.

The second captain and the flight attendant looked at each other, and they almost simultaneously opened the curtain and ran towards the rear of the cabin.By the time the two of them passed through the first class and business class all the way to the economy class, the passengers in the three rows of seats near the window on the left side of the front of the economy class had already left their seats and stood on the aisle, as if they were outside the window. There is something extremely terrible.

However, although some people wanted to stay away from the window, more people gathered around. Many of them stretched their necks and looked out the window, hoping to see where the flames were.

As soon as the purser came over and saw so many people gathered in one place, he shouted: "Please return to your original positions, don't gather!"

As he said that, feeling that under such circumstances, the flight attendant in charge of the economy class hadn't come out to maintain order, so he was immediately angry and anxious.

However, unlike the flight attendant who was frightened by the gathering of people, as soon as the second captain came over, one of the passengers who had left his seat earlier grabbed the arm of the second captain in fear: "Fire! The engine outside is on fire!"

The second captain directly abandoned the man and went to the seat where the man left.He rested one hand on the bulkhead, leaned closer to the porthole and looked back, his whole body trembled immediately.

I saw that the outer ring of the No. [-] engine fairing on the right was covered with faint blue flames, and the fire was so powerful that it almost covered most of the fairing.

"St. Elmo's fire!" The second captain was quite well-informed, and soon realized that the flame was not a real engine rise and fall, but a phenomenon of air ionization.

He looked in the direction of the wing again, only to see that even the navigation lights at the wingtips were no longer visible.

"The visibility is so low?" The second captain yelled inwardly, and immediately left his seat, intending to go back to the front cabin.However, the frightened passengers immediately grabbed the arm of the second captain and said worriedly: "Captain, don't you care if it's on fire?"

The second captain was very anxious, and it would not be too rude to be dragged by passengers. He changed his mind and put on a chuckle: "This is not a fire, it is a phenomenon similar to Aurora, Aurora, you guys do you know?"

"Aurora?" The passenger should have heard of Aurora, but the Aurora he knows is obviously inconsistent with the current situation, and it is a bit worse.

However, the second captain didn't bother to continue explaining what the aurora is, and just ran over while looking at the front cabin while the passengers were in a daze.

When he ran to the front cabin workshop, Xu Cang had already sat on the right seat, the co-pilot had disappeared, and Leo had already gone back to the first-class cabin.

The second captain passed Leo and went straight to the cockpit. Leo sat down just now, and Song Xinyang, who was anxious, asked Leo from across the seat: "Mr. Leo, where is Xu Cang? Didn't he go there with you?" ?"

From the moment he heard the explosion of anger to the discovery of the difference in Xu Cang's expression, and then to Xu Cang and Leo rushing forward, Song Xinyang's worries continued to expand.

Now, seeing Leo coming back alone, this worry has reached the point of overflowing.

"Xu Cang is dealing with some tricky things in the cockpit." After Leo sat down, there was a hint of anxiety on his face.

"Troublesome thing?" Song Xinyang cried out inwardly, did he really encounter something?So, he hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, is it serious?"

Leo nodded: "It looks serious. Mr. Song, if you can land safely this time, Mr. Xu can be regarded as your half lifesaver."

"Help, help!?" Song Xinyang's face was pale, how could his life be involved, is it really so difficult?

Suddenly, there were loud noises in Song Xinyang's ears. He looked back suddenly, and along the corridor, he saw many business class and economy class passengers lying on their backs and opening the windows.

Song Xinyang became suspicious, and also looked at the window closest to him.Unknowingly, cold blue light appeared outside the originally pitch-black window, and the light flickered, as if the light source was still dancing not far away.

This is how can there be such a bright effect at an altitude of [-] meters?

Then, under Song Xinyang's astonished eyes, he saw a blue flame spread directly out of the porthole. From the perspective of the naked eye, it seemed that the entire fuselage was covered in a sea of ​​flames, and its shape was extremely terrifying. People and weirdness.

"St. Elmo's fire?" Song Xinyang had been a pilot for a while before, so he made a judgment immediately: "How can there be such a strong St. Elmo's fire?"

Encounters with St. Elmo's Fire on board planes were rare, but by no means impossible, and he had encountered them in his short career as a pilot.However, as we all know, St. Elmo's fire is usually only produced on the top of sharp objects, and the window he saw was in the round fuselage. How could there be St. Elmo's fire here?

Song Xinyang couldn't imagine what kind of exaggerated charge was gathered outside the plane, so that air ionization appeared around the fuselage?

No matter from which angle, this is not a good sign!
"Did something really happen?" Song Xinyang's heart sank to the bottom of the valley as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Ahead, the second co-pilot rushed into the cockpit and closed the cockpit casually.At this moment, Xu Cang's right hand was already grasping the steering wheel, but the responsible captain actually let go of the control of the plane.

"What are you doing, who is he?" The second captain stood behind and asked the responsible captain sharply: "What's wrong with the plane now?"

"He is Xu Cang, the pilot of CAAC. He is very powerful." The responsible captain quickly explained to the second captain in English: "Now the plane seems to have entered volcanic ash by mistake, and the No. [-] engine should be shut down due to inhalation of volcanic ash. The car is gone. The plane is in critical condition, we are ready to return!"

"Volcanic ash, sure enough!" The second captain thought of the possibility of volcanic ash when he saw the violent St. Elmo's fire just now.It’s just that, just like the previous responsible captain, he thought that the company’s dispatcher should remind them of such a big matter, so he subconsciously didn’t believe it. As a result, the second captain still felt that the words came from the responsible captain’s mouth. Get hit hard.

"Engine No. [-] is surging, then." The second captain was talking to himself, and suddenly seeing Xu Cang's left hand touching the automatic ignition selector, his expression changed suddenly: "What do you want to do?"

Xu Cang turned his head to look at the responsible captain: "I want to start in the air!"

Originally, Xu Cang wanted the captain in charge to translate his words to the second captain, but what Xu Cang didn't expect was that the second captain standing behind suddenly came up with a bad Chinese: "Start in the air, you Which one to start, engine number four?"

The Chinese accent of the second captain was too strong, Xu Cang had to react before realizing that he was speaking Chinese.

"Huh?" Xu Cang turned to look at the second captain in surprise: "You can also speak Chinese?"

At this time, the captain in charge explained: "You should have wondered why I can speak Chinese just now? Because he and I have both worked in National Airlines. A long time ago, when National Airlines first started to expand international routes, We have recruited a lot of foreign pilots due to flight needs. However, he didn’t stay in National Airlines for a long time, and I stayed for a little longer, five years. After he returned to China, he didn’t pay attention to CAAC. and I have been in touch with friends over there, so I know you."

"So that's how it is!" Xu Cang suddenly realized, thinking that the captain in charge had worked in China and knew himself.No wonder he was so easy to talk to. If someone didn't know him, like the second captain, it would take a lot of effort to gain their trust.

"You want to start the No. [-] engine?" The second captain spoke directly in Chinese after that. Although his accent was heavy, Xu Cang could barely understand: "The No. [-] engine is shut down by surge, can you start it?" ?Even if the start is good, the source of the surge cannot be solved, and the plane still has to surge!"

Xu Cang glanced at the automatic start switch to confirm that the switch was in the off position, and then put his left hand on the automatic ignition selector to directly switch it to the BOTH position.

The second captain's face changed wildly, and he bent down immediately to interrupt Xu Cang's movements, but before his right hand could hold Xu Cang's wrist, he was stopped by the responsible captain in mid-air.

The captain in charge said resolutely: "Tom, I am the captain in charge. I think it is more appropriate for Xu Cang to handle the current situation."

"You!" The second captain clenched his teeth, but he couldn't refute.His technical level is lower than the responsible captain, and his qualifications are much weaker, so logically he has to obey the responsible captain's words.However, this does not mean that the second captain has no complaints in his heart. He snorted and said coldly: "I hope you can say the same on the AAIB side!"

AAIB, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the British Air Accident Investigation Bureau, specializes in investigating major accidents in aviation.Normally, the UK Civil Aviation Authority CCA will directly adopt the findings of the AAIB.And they encountered volcanic ash, and even if they could land safely, they would have to go to the British Air Accident Investigation Bureau afterwards.

The captain in charge was stunned for a moment, obviously shocked by the name of the Air Accident Investigation Bureau, but soon he came to his senses and said firmly: "I will bear all the consequences!"

After the captain in charge said so, the second captain glared at Xu Cang fiercely, threw off his arms, and sat in the observer's seat by himself.

Seeing that the two captains had made a decision, Xu Cang felt a little relieved.The co-pilot just now was easy to deal with, but if the second captain couldn't make up his mind and refused to hand over the control of the plane to Xu Cang, it would be really difficult to handle.

Fortunately, however, the results are good.

The second captain folded his arms and stared at Xu Cang coldly: "Is it really meaningful to start in the air?"

"That depends on whether the No. [-] engine can start!"

After speaking, Xu Cang glanced at the engine data display page, and the words X-BLD appeared on it, which was a reminder for cross-bleed air.Then, Xu Cang directly pulled out the engine start switch, and at the same time, when the N2 index exceeded the fuel supply indication, he set the fuel control switch to the RUN position.

After resetting the fuel control switch, Xu Cang immediately started timing, and then he focused on the EGT of the No. [-] engine.Whether it can start well depends on whether the EGT can rise.

At this moment, an English with a heavy accent suddenly came out of the earphones: "British Airways 1009, Jakarta Airport is willing to accept you, now you are flying towards 090, at an altitude of [-] feet!"

The captain in charge quickly translated for Xu Cang. While looking at the timer, Xu Cang replied directly to the captain in charge: "You can fly to 090, keep the altitude and maintain the leveling altitude of [-] feet. In addition, ask them to For example, the Meteorological Bureau verified the information of the volcanic eruption and said that we had a high probability of encountering volcanic ash."

The captain in charge informed the area control of Jakarta about Xu Cang's words in English, but they almost swear when they heard it, and immediately agreed that British Airways flight 1009 can maintain the altitude, and then hurriedly went to the Meteorological Bureau to verify.

At the moment when the radio communication ended, the timer finally reached the 30-second position, Xu Cang glanced at EGT, it was absolutely still!

Xu Cang cursed in his heart, and had to cut off the verification of the fuel control switch again, and then pressed the engine start switch again.

"If it's really volcanic ash outside, it won't be successful if you start it a hundred times." The second pilot said coldly.

Of course Xu Cang knew that the source of engine No. [-]’s surge and flameout was the volcanic ash, and this source could not be solved. How could it be possible to complete the air start, especially at an altitude of [-] feet, where the oxygen content is low and the success rate of air start is low? It was already low.

Xu Cang didn't have much hope at first, he just turned off the throttle, slightly lowered the attitude of getting off the plane, and then lowered the plane: "Go down to an altitude of [-] feet first!"

The No. [-] engine could not be started, so the plane would not be able to maintain its current altitude at all, and if it was forced to maintain it, the plane would definitely stall.He had no choice, even though he knew that the volcanic ash below was more intense, Xu Cang still had to descend.

"Do you want to do the "Volcanic Ash" checklist?" asked the captain in charge.

Xu Cang nodded, and the captain in charge quickly opened the checklist and started PM himself.As expected of the captain, the speed of going through the checklist is still fast, and he found the "Volcanic Ash" checklist within ten seconds.

This checklist is quite unpopular, and some pilots probably won't use it for half their lives.However, Xu Cang could actually recite it from memory, but he didn't do so.

It is not urgent to make the "Volcanic Ash" checklist, and the current situation cannot be changed. What Xu Cang really cares about is the subsequent decision-making.

"If necessary, put on an oxygen mask and establish crew communication." The captain has already begun to read the checklist.

Xu Cang hummed: "No need!"

"Auto throttle disconnected!"

"It has been disconnected!"

"Thrust handle, slow down as much as possible!"

"Ok!"

"Continuous ignition switch, open!" The captain said here, and opened the continuous ignition switch by himself, which is to prevent the remaining engines from stalling.

"Component control selector, all normal bits!"

At this point, Xu Cang said in a low voice: "You can just read and do the checklist yourself, and don't ask for my opinion."

It is more than enough for a captain to do such trivial things as checklists, there is no need to drag Xu Cang along, this is distracting Xu Cang's energy.

Of course, in a normal fault handler, any steps should be cross-checked to prevent mistakes.However, it is obviously an abnormal malfunction now, Xu Cang has to put more energy on how to fly instead of this simple matter.

"Oh! Okay!" The captain was easy to talk to, and then he silently opened the high-flow switch alone, and at the same time set the pod anti-ice switch and wing anti-ice to the open position, so as to increase the bleed air discharge to increase the stall margin of the aircraft.

"The following content is that if the engine is turned off, the fuel control switch should be turned off and then turned on. It is similar to the steps you just restarted the engine, so we won't repeat it?"

Xu Cang shook his head: "There is no need to try!"

In his eyes, the St. Elmo's fire that originally floated on the tip of the windshield wiper has spread to more than half of the radome.This shows that as the plane descends, the concentration of volcanic ash outside is getting higher and higher, and the charge accumulated under the friction with the fuselage is still increasing, which is an extremely dangerous sign.

At this moment, on the Jakarta airport tower, the tower controller who had previously contacted the regional control office to inform British Airways flight 1009 that it could return, then notified the ground staff and asked to check the ceilometer at the airport.

Soon, the field manager called back.

"You mean that there is no problem with the ceilometer?" The tower controller looked at the colleagues around him while speaking: "Okay, sorry for your inconvenience."

After hanging up the phone, the tower controller's brows were already frowning into the word "Chuan". There is no problem with the ceilometer, so where is the problem?
Suddenly, his colleague cast his eyes out of the glass, and a sentence came out: "It's dark tonight!?"

As far as the eye can see, there is an ink-like darkness outside the glass of the tower, as if it is about to form a substance, and the light in the tower control room cannot penetrate at all.

"The sky is full of clouds covering the light of the stars and the moon, of course it's dark." The tower controller said casually.

"No!" The colleague pointed in one direction: "I mean we can't even see the runway lights clearly now."

"Huh?" The tower controller was startled, and looked in the direction pointed by his colleague.Sure enough, the runway lighting system, which should have been clearly visible, was only vaguely visible, and the field of vision was extremely limited.

The tower controller was stunned: "No, is the visibility so low? The visibility should be more than 3000 meters! This"

While speaking, the tower controller suddenly felt a pungent and strange smell in his nasal cavity: "What smell?"

Colleagues puzzled: "What did you say?"

"I mean, did you smell any strange smell?" The tower controller sniffed around, and quickly located the source of the smell, which was a small air vent facing him.

This vent is connected to the outside so that each control seat can get adequate ventilation.

Suddenly, the tower controller felt something, and wiped his nose with his right index finger.When he took his finger away, a faint black substance was smeared on the pad of his index finger.

"This" the tower controller and colleagues were all taken aback.

Immediately, in this bewildered atmosphere, the landline in front of the tower controller suddenly rang.The tower controller didn't care about what was on his finger, and hurried to answer the phone.

It was the local Meteorological Bureau who called. Soon, the face of the tower controller turned pale in an instant.

After about 2 minutes, the phone was hung up.The colleague saw that the tower controller's expression was wrong, and immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

The controller at the tower murmured as if lost his soul: "Klud Volcano has erupted! Volcanic ash is about to cover the airport completely!"

"Klud Volcano!" The colleague was taken aback, looked down at the black substance on the controller's finger, and immediately understood: "Then this is the volcanic ash that floated over earlier? Part of the volcanic ash has already reached the field. Garuda Is it not because of low clouds that the plane in that plane can't see the runway, is it because of volcanic ash?"

The tower controller inserted his hands into his hair in distress: "There will be more intense volcanic ash coming soon, and all flights must be suspended. The current situation is that the airport is no longer suitable for taking off and landing."

The colleague nodded and agreed: "Yes, I will report to the director. You can help me command the Eagle Air plane, inform him of the situation, and let him go to another airport for an alternate landing."

The colleague stood up and was about to go to the director of his control room when he suddenly thought of a question and looked at the tower controller in a daze: "No! If this field cannot operate, what about British Airways flight 1009?"

As soon as this remark came out, the tower controller was stunned on the spot.

In the cockpit, the aircraft quickly descended to an altitude of [-] feet under idle thrust.Xu Cang didn't even need to look up the meter, and quickly set the corresponding thrust and posture.

Fortunately, at an altitude of [-] feet, St. Elmo's fire was indeed quite terrifying, but no other malfunctions continued to appear.However, it is still unclear how long this peaceful state can last.

The only thing they can pray for now is to fly away from the area of ​​volcanic ash as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no less problems.

"Xu Cang, I've been thinking about a question!" The captain in charge pointed solemnly to the real-time wind direction and wind speed information on the navigation page: "The high-altitude wind has always maintained a westerly wind, and the wind is very strong. If this will If the volcanic ash blows westward, isn’t that the direction of the airport?”

Yes, the wind is blowing the ash towards the airport.Now they are at an altitude of [-] feet, and in the low-altitude environment, maybe the area of ​​volcanic ash has expanded to an unimaginable extent.

If the volcanic ash has spread over the Jakarta airport, then if they go back now, can they still fall on this field?

Hearing this, the second captain fell into silence, while Xu Cang didn't say a word.He had discovered this problem a long time ago, but he didn't know how to solve it. After all, he couldn't affect the spread of volcanic ash.

As if to confirm the words of the captain in charge, the words of area control quickly came over the radio: "British Airways 1009, received the latest notice that the Kelud volcano erupted, and now the Jakarta airport has been covered by volcanic ash and cannot take off and land. You need to choose an alternate landing field!"

As soon as this remark came out, the expressions of the three of them suddenly changed.

And all this is not over yet, at the moment when the radio communication ends, if the voice of the devil whispers again.

dong dong dong dong!

It seems that the most evil heart is beating!

Xu Cang's heart tightened suddenly, and there was another surge, that was the sound of the second engine surge!Then, there was another different beating sound, that was the surge sound of the third engine!
"Not good!" Unexpectedly, the two engines started to have problems again in an instant. In this situation, they can still fly to another alternate landing field?
The world is so big, where is their shelter?
PS——It’s almost [-] days, and it’s the end of the month. Can you vote for a monthly ticket? It’s still a little over [-].In addition, everyone guess where the plane can land?

(End of this chapter)