Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers
Chapter 272 East Earthquake Yingzhou!Give Japan a little shock!
In the endless darkness, the senses and perceptions seem to be frozen here, and it seems that no matter how many thousands of years have passed, the sticky darkness will not change in the slightest.
I don't know how long it took, but the place was lifeless, as if there was a slight disturbance in the eternal darkness, a little light of reason broke through the dark curtain, and bloomed his own wisdom.
Suddenly, it was as if the person who was trapped in a nightmare and couldn't extricate himself finally got rid of everything that was entangled. The sound of whistling airflow rang in his ears, causing disturbance in the empty silence, and he could begin to perceive everything in the real world again.
Surrounded by the air current, Xu Cang slowly opened his eyes.At this moment, he was still holding the oxygen mask in his left hand, but the surroundings were no longer as cold as before.A little frost hung on his eyelashes, and even when he opened his eyes, the upper and lower eyelids were slightly bonded because of the frost.
"call!"
Xu Cang still kept his head down. Even without the help of an oxygen mask, Xu Cang seldom felt that his breathing was sluggish.This situation undoubtedly shows that the plane has fallen to a low enough altitude.
Putting the oxygen mask aside, looking at Takashi Kuroda who was still in a coma, Xu Cang let out a long breath and felt a little more relaxed.
Although Xu Cang doesn't like Boeing, he has to admit that the Boeing 737NG is indeed an aircraft with excellent static stability.
The so-called static stability means that the aircraft will deviate from its original position after being subjected to a short-term external disturbance, but the aircraft will spontaneously produce a tendency to return to the original equilibrium position.
Static stability includes longitudinal stability, lateral stability, and directional stability, which correspond to the XYZ three-axis of the aircraft in space.
The longitudinal stability of the aircraft is manifested in the fact that the aircraft has a tendency to automatically return to the original angle of attack when the angle of attack changes after being affected by a disturbance without applying an external force.
Aircraft longitudinal stability consists of wings, empennage, fuselage and engines.Among them, the horizontal tail is the most important component that provides the longitudinal stability of the aircraft. Its long moment arm can generate a large pitching moment, and its moment direction is just opposite to that of the wing.
For an aircraft with static stability, any change in the angle of attack must produce a moment that prevents the change, and the two are complementary.
Lateral static stability is the spontaneous reaction moment to the yaw moment of the wing, the sum of the wing and the vertical tail.However, its stability is also greatly affected by the dihedral angle of the wing, the sweep angle and the vertical tail.
Generally speaking, the dihedral provides lateral static stability, and the dihedral provides lateral instability.The Boeing 737 uses the dihedral.
For directional static stability, the aircraft achieves it through the vertical tail, while the Boeing 737 has a relatively large vertical tail, which performs well in directional stability.
Due to the operating characteristics of civil aviation airliners, the layout of static stability is generally adopted.The layout of static stability has its own advantages, but it also has disadvantages, such as losing part of the maneuverability.
For some maneuvers, even if the structural strength of civil aviation airliners is not considered, the aerodynamic layout itself will prevent the emergence of such a large maneuver just because of the existence of static stability.
Therefore, Xu Cang could only place all his hopes on the static stability of the 737NG when there was nothing he could do before.
The static stability of the aircraft is not a characteristic with particularly obvious and timely feedback at the microscopic level. Its characteristic is that only when there is a large deviation from the balance, there will be sufficient correction torque, which leads to the aircraft when the deviation is small. In fact, self-healing will not occur in time.
Only when the aircraft has a large deviation, the static stability will play a more obvious role.In the actual airspace, the airflow cannot be continuously stable, so the aircraft can only maintain a roughly stable state within a general state range.
It is for this reason that Xu Cang needs to control and clear the airspace within a radius of 25 nautical miles, because he cannot predict what state the plane will enter.
In order to ensure the static stability of the aircraft, Xu Cang finally retracted the speedbrake, but in the emergency descent procedure of decompression, the speedbrake should be pulled out so that the speedbrake can be descended at the fastest speed.However, the speedbrake itself is a device that destroys the lift force. It is reasonable to say that there should be no problem of extension. However, for the sake of safety, to prevent the speedbrake from affecting the aerodynamic layout of the aircraft, thereby changing the static stability of the aircraft, Xu Cang can only Retract the speedbrake.
In addition, Xu Cang also reopened the yaw damper.This is to prevent the aircraft from falling into some unpredictable complex states, such as Dutch rolls.
At the same time, Xu Cang tried his best to fit himself into the oxygen mask, so that he could breathe the pure oxygen blown from the weak mask, so that he would not fall into too deep hypoxia and recover as soon as possible.
Relying on the extremely strong static stability of the 737, the plane forced itself to float down under the thrust of the idle vehicle.To be honest, the 737 is a model with a relatively strong sense of the times, and some pay too much attention to static stability.In fact, even if it is a deep stall, as long as the altitude is sufficient, the aircraft can even recover on its own without the pilot recovering, but the premise is that there must be a sufficient altitude, basically the bottom line is the altitude loss of more than [-] feet.
After a while, Xu Cang's consciousness gradually became clear and he regained his ability to think.
At this time, he half-closed his eyes. In the strong air current, his eyes could not be fully opened, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable.Xu Cang tried to raise his head, but the still strong airflow was unbearable for him, so he could only lower his head again and use the instrument panel to block the airflow.
Although the environment in the cockpit is still extremely harsh, and although there are still great difficulties in maneuvering, at least the problem of decompression and hypoxia seems to have been solved, which is an urgent problem involving life and death.
Xu Cang looked at the PFD immediately, and tried to distinguish the current status of the aircraft through various instruments such as the attitude indicator.
At this moment, he couldn't see the outside world, and he couldn't distinguish the specific range and attitude of his plane through the visual reference from the outside.However, it is not difficult to judge the status of the aircraft only through the instruments. There is relevant training in the instrument level stage of the aviation school, and it must be a necessary skill for any qualified pilot.
However, Xu Cang was stunned when he saw the various instruments.
There is nothing strange about the attitude indicator, the aircraft is in a pitch attitude of one degree.Even though the attitude is positive, it is not enough to keep the plane in level flight. The plane is now descending at a rate of [-] feet per minute.
Of course the plane is descending is not a concern, the problem is the altitude and speed.
At this moment, there were inconsistent displays on both the airspeed indicator and the altimeter, ie IAS DISAGREE and ALT DISAGREE.
"What do you mean? There is a problem with the static pressure port?" Xu Cang was startled. Is it because the airspeed and altitude are unreliable?
As we all know, the speed of the aircraft needs to use dynamic pressure and static pressure, while the altitude needs to use static pressure data.In this way, if there is only a problem with the dynamic pressure, that is, the pitot tube, it will only be a problem with the airspeed of the aircraft, and if there is any fault with the static pressure port, the speed and altitude data will be affected.
Of course, there is also an extreme situation, that is, both the pitot tube and the static pressure port are out of order.However, there are many backups of the pitot tubes and static pressure ports of the detection device on the aircraft, so it is unlikely that all of them will go wrong.
However, there is no point in guessing now.If it is just the airspeed or the altitude is the problem, it is actually relatively easy to deal with.However, if the speed and altitude are unreliable, things will be more difficult, not to mention the current environment in the cockpit of an aircraft is not so suitable for dealing with failures.Under the impact of the high air flow for a long time, even if Xu Cang regained consciousness, his body temperature has already been greatly affected. If he continues to delay like this, he may suffer from hypothermia.
I looked at the cockpit altitude indicator, and the light was still on, which indicated that the altitude of the aircraft was still above [-] feet.If the height is too low, Xu Cang will find it difficult.Because if the usual handling is followed, a climbing thrust and attitude should be set at this time to ensure the absolute need for obstacle clearance.
However, if the climb thrust is set, due to program restrictions, the maximum climb thrust must be used. Under such settings, the climb rate generally exceeds [-] feet per minute.I finally floated down from above, is it possible to go up again?
However, if the plane is above 10 feet, there is little to worry about.You must know that Mount Fuji, the highest peak in Japan, is only 10 feet, and according to the location, even if you fly straight to the north, it will take more than [-] minutes.If he is in a coma for [-] minutes, although the lack of oxygen is not too serious, but for such a long time, even if he does not die, at least he will not regain consciousness so clearly. Therefore, Xu Cang can be sure that the time from coma to waking will definitely not very long.
Moreover, now I can breathe relatively smoothly, which means that the altitude of the plane should not be too high, about 1 feet.In other words, the plane actually lost more than 2 feet during its coma.
This loss of height seems to be a lot, but under the thrust of the slow car, it is estimated to be enough to last for five or six minutes.
Based on the location I remembered before, it is absolutely impossible to fly to Mount Fuji in five or six minutes.Moreover, Mt. Fuji is only that big, if he could hit it, Xu Cang's luck would be too bad.
Previously, due to the damage of the mode control panel, the DU on the navigation page could not be used. Otherwise, the current position of the aircraft could be confirmed.However, it is not yet possible to determine whether the navigation page function is unavailable, or the related DU display failure.
If the DU display is faulty, you can regain relevant data by switching the DU display and switching the navigation page to the next DU.However, after Xu Cang glanced at the navigation page DU on the left, which was also unavailable, he was more inclined to believe that the navigation function had failed.
The damage to the mode control board has affected some other systems, which seems to include the navigation system, and it is not known whether the airspeed and altitude data problems are also caused by this reason.
Xu Cang raised his head slightly, glanced at the probe heating switches, and verified that the two switches were on.However, just looking up like this, the airflow blows on the face like a knife, which is very uncomfortable.
The reason why Xu Cang has to make sure that the probe heating switch is on is because in many cases, the problem of unreliable speed and altitude lies in icing.Why Boeing designed the probe heating device is precisely because holes like pitot tubes are more prone to ice accumulation in icing conditions than smooth fuselages.Once the probe ice builds up and blocks the pitot tube or static pressure port, the airspeed and altitude speed will follow.
Therefore, the first step in the quick checklist for dealing with unreliable airspeed is to check that the probe warm switch is on.
Knowing the most important reason for the unreliability of speed and altitude, Xu Cang felt more and more that it was not a problem with the probe, because the plane never passed through the icy area from the beginning to the end, so how could there be a problem of ice accumulation and blockage of the probe?
Of course, it is not to say that only ice accumulation will block the probe.There have also been some outrageous incidents in the history of civil aviation, such as small bugs blocking the aperture of the probe.However, this kind of thing is extremely small probability, and it can't be considered as a category.
In contrast, Xu Cang's man-made damage to the control panel caused a failure of the inertial reference of air data, which led to two important flight data problems.
In Xu Cang's impression, if there is a problem with the air data inertial reference, there is no relevant solution in the checklist.
"I hope it's not!" Xu Cang prayed in his heart.
For a pilot of Xu Cang's level, even if there is no airspeed and altitude display, he can still complete the landing only by visual inspection.For this kind of visual landing, Xu Cang is still very confident. He will come a hundred times, and he will not miss even one time.
But the problem is that now that the windshield is broken and under the impact of the airflow, Xu Cang can't hold his eyes even if he raises his head a little and looks outside.He could only fly with his head down and rely on the instruments. In this case, Xu Cang knew neither the speed nor the altitude of the plane, so how could he fall?
Is it possible to ask Xu Cang to do a real "blind drop" of the 747S2 switch?
In fact, this is not quite the same as the previous S2 switch event.You know, there was no problem with the plane's instruments that time. Although Xu Cang couldn't see it himself, Xia Shuyue gave him a proper reminder, and relied on Xu Cang's mental calculations to forcefully calculate an approach path.
But don't let Xia Shuyue come in now, even if you let a regular pilot come in, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.
The three factors of speed, altitude and throttle are undoubtedly the most basic data reference for any flight.But now two of them are unreliable, and the pilot can't make visual reference to the outside world, how can this fly?
However, Xu Cang, a seasoned pilot like Xu Cang, did not panic at all.After solving the life-and-death problem of hypoxic coma, Xu Cang can still live stably.
Since there is no need to set the plane to an absolute climb state, then according to Xu Cang's temperament, it must be kept in level flight.
Xu Cang freed his left hand and called up the performance page on the CDU, on which there was the full weight of the aircraft at the moment.
"61 tons."
Xu Cang slightly recalled, and directly increased the thrust of the twin engines to 74, and at the same time brought the aircraft attitude to two degrees.
Even when the airspeed or altitude is unreliable, the N1 and attitude of the aircraft are reliable, so you can set it with confidence.
Xu Cang's memory is amazing. He memorized the entire QRH manual, including memorized items and non-memorized items, including the last in-flight performance chapter.If we talk about the first part of the program, some pilots have been flying for decades, and they can basically memorize it, but ordinary people will definitely not be able to memorize the extremely complicated data in the latter part.
However, Xu Cang can retrieve it from memory at any time.
In fact, in the chapter of airspeed indication unreliable flight/traversing turbulent airflow, the chart of level flight with flaps fully retracted in the cruising phase shows only the N1 and attitude settings of [-] tons.
That is to say, at an altitude of 1 feet, with a total weight of 72 tons, the pitch attitude is set to two degrees, and N[-] is [-], which can ensure that the aircraft is in a level flight state.
However, the current height is about 1 feet, and it must be able to accurately meet the height of 172 feet, and the total weight is also slightly heavier than 74 tons.However, there is no more detailed reference in the performance chapter of QRH, so Xu Cang slightly increased the thrust on the basis of N[-], and increased it to [-] to ensure that the aircraft would not descend.
Even under the thrust of 74, the plane rose slightly, Xu Cang could react more calmly after he noticed the abnormality in his body.
After setting the thrust, Xu Cang glanced at the three airspeed indicators, namely the captain's side, the co-pilot's side and the backup instrument.With an N72 of 1 and a pitch attitude of two degrees, the aircraft should eventually stabilize at around 280 knots.
Considering that Xu Cang slightly increased N1, this stable value may be slightly greater than 280 knots, but the difference should not be too much.
However, after Xu Cang glanced at the three airspeed indicators, his face suddenly sank.The airspeed indicator on the captain's side showed that the plane had reached more than 310 knots, and the backup instrument was at 230 knots, but on his own side it was only more than 280 knots, and none of the airspeed indicators was even slightly consistent with [-] knots.
"Is there any problem?" Xu Cang was stunned, his luck is so bad?
Generally speaking, the captain's side, the co-pilot's side and the backup instrument use relatively independent detection equipment, so it is basically impossible for all three instruments to fail.
Although under the pressure of reality, Xu Cang had to admit that his luck was a little bit bad, but God can't make trouble like this, right?
Xu Cang pondered in his heart: "Could it be that there is something wrong with the inertial reference of the air data?"
If this is the case, then the navigation page function may also be affected.Because part of the data of the aircraft's navigation system comes from the inertial reference of atmospheric data.
In this way, the unavailable navigation page function is really not a problem with the DU display, but that the navigation system is really unusable.
If an ordinary pilot sees this situation, the windshield is broken, unable to see the outside world, the airspeed is not reliable, and the altitude may not be available at all, I am afraid that the heart will be ashamed.
That's right, there is indeed no danger to life now.But in such a situation, how can the plane fall down?
If you can't fall, you can only wait to die!
But who is Xu Cang?
It's just that he can't see it, but he doesn't have a reliable airspeed, but he doesn't have a reliable altitude. He can still drop the plane. It's ten times more difficult than the current situation, and he survived.
Since it is strongly suspected that there is a problem with the inertial reference of air data, there is no need to think about solving the problem.Therefore, Xu Cang directly gave up on the correction of the speed and altitude problems, and groped for the door unlock knob of the central console again.
The previous time Xu Cang was unconscious due to lack of oxygen, so he turned in the wrong direction, so that the hatch was not unlocked.But this time, Xu Cang's consciousness was clear, he tried again, and the direction was correct, but the hatch locking system still didn't respond at all.
"Huh?" Xu Cang looked back to confirm that he did not make any mistakes in the operation, and tried again, but the hatch still did not respond.
Now Xu Cang's face changed a little. Compared with the problems on the flight data display, Xu Cang actually cared more about the problem of the cabin door locking system.At least in Xu Cang's opinion, the problem of the control of the plane is not as good as the problem of opening the door.
Now that the interior of the cockpit of the plane is seriously damaged, and the plane is not too high, Xu Cang can't completely ignore the plane and deal with Takashi Kuroda's problem, right?
Looking at Takashi Kuroda who was still in a coma, Xu Cang pondered for a moment, it seems that this problem is not as difficult as imagined, it is better to land as soon as possible.
Xu Cang pressed the call bell in the cabin, and the captain and others who were waiting eagerly in the cabin answered the phone before the first-class flight attendant.
"This is the cockpit, I'm Xu Cang."
Xu Cang, who was conscious, spoke Japanese first, and the captain, who was always worried, almost sat down: "Mr. Xu, it's great to hear your voice, what happened to the plane just now?"
"The windshield is cracked, and the person who hijacked the plane is unconscious. Now I'm trying to land as soon as possible. When I descended just now, was anyone injured behind?" Xu Cang asked.
"The windshield is cracked?" The captain was taken aback, and secretly thought that this was the reason for the decompression of the plane.
In fact, the captain was really wrong.In the beginning, the windshield was not broken when the aircraft was depressurized, but Takashi Kuroda mistakenly turned off the dual components, and Xu Cang acquiesced in this operation.
In fact, Xu Cang's strategy of allowing Takashi Kuroda to turn off the components to disable him would be extremely wonderful if the plane hadn't been too close to the dangerous cloud in the south, causing the windshield to burst.
Of course, it finally came back to the question. Xu Cang's luck was not very good.
However, although the process was somewhat tortuous, at least the purpose of incapacitating Kuroda Takashi was achieved.
The captain hurriedly said: "Hurry up and open the door, let us go in. Now the plane has descended to a low place, we can move even without oxygen masks. The co-pilot and I got the man out and controlled it."
Although Takashi Kuroda was in a coma, the captain still felt that he needed to get the man out and control him to avoid any further problems.
"No!" Xu Cang said with some regret: "After the windshield broke, the plane seemed to have some unexpected problems. Many systems failed, including the locking system of the cockpit. I tried it twice just now. The doors won't even open."
"Can't open the door?" The captain was stunned: "Then do you want to help?"
"No, I will come in and land. According to estimates, we will land in Yokohama the soonest." Xu Cang was talking, and suddenly felt a noise coming from the opposite side, followed by a clear female voice: "Xu Cang ,Are you OK?"
Xu Cang recognized that it was Xia Shuyue's voice, and immediately laughed: "What can I do? It's just a small problem, I can handle it well, the plane"
Xu Cang wanted to say something, but another channel sounded in the earphone: "ANA45, this is Tokyo control, please answer."
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows, and said to Xia Shuyue: "I will land as soon as possible, you just sit down, I'm going to be busy."
After finishing speaking, Xu Cang directly switched the transmitter to VHF1, and replied: "ANA45, the plane is under control now, apply for radar guidance, and land nearby."
In the Tokyo area control room, in the past few minutes, the controller tried to call ANA Flight 45 every half a minute, but there was no answer. I didn't expect that there was a response this time.
In an instant, most of the Tokyo area control room cheered, and the supervisor breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, something big happened."
The supervisor directly pulled away the controller and took the microphone: "Excuse me, are you Xu Cang from Spring Airlines? Did you send the communication just now? How is the plane now? Where is the hijacker? Is anyone injured?"
The supervisor asked a lot of questions in a series, and Xu Cang had to answer them one by one: "I am Xu Cang, and I also sent the previous communication. Now the windshield of the plane is broken, which caused some other problems. The airspeed and altitude data are not available. It's reliable. As for the hijacker, he is in a coma now, and I don't know if there are any casualties in the cabin, but the conversation with the cabin was interrupted by you just now."
"The windshield is broken?" The supervisor suddenly wondered, no wonder the background noise that always exists in the sound quality of the radio communication should be the whistling sound of the airflow.
Even though Xu Cang can already lower his head and only needs to withstand a relatively small amount of airflow impact, the communication environment is still not good.However, there is no urgency in terms of physical issues right now, so even if you can't explain clearly, you can repeat it.
Hearing that Xu Cang's tone was relatively normal and his logic was relatively clear, the supervisor was finally completely relieved this time.Just now he had a private phone call with the JCAB bureau. If he fails to establish contact with ANA Flight 45, this out-of-control plane will become a huge threat to Tokyo, and it is possible to take some "necessary" measures.
However, the director of JCAB seemed unwilling to make this decision, and ordered the supervisor of the control room to contact the crew as much as possible, and not to take necessary measures unless it was absolutely necessary.
It is the insistence of the JCAB director that he has been able to wait until now to re-establish contact with Xu Cang.
The supervisor glanced at the position of the signal point of ANA Flight 45, and immediately said: "You are the closest to Yokohama Airport, and we can guide you to Yokohama Airport. Tokyo's airspace has been basically cleared, and you have the highest priority. You can land as soon as possible. Can you please?" accept?"
Yokohama Airport is exactly where Xu Cang expected to land, and he immediately responded, "Yes!"
Xu Cang paused for a moment: "On your control radar, what is the current altitude of the plane?"
Mentioning the director’s heart trembled, recalling that Xu Cang mentioned that there was a problem with the altitude information just now, he immediately understood: “The radar shows that the altitude of your plane is [-] feet, but it should be your altitude data. question."
Xu Cang didn't answer right away, but touched the transponder panel of the central console with his left hand, and switched the altitude selection switch from machine No. [-] to machine No. [-].
"now what?"
Following Xu Cang's switch, the altitude of ANA Flight 45 on the control radar screen immediately jumped from [-] feet to [-] feet.
"This..." The supervisor was stunned for a moment, but he said immediately, "Now it's [-] feet."
In the cockpit, Xu Cang sighed secretly: "It really is so!"
At the beginning, the altitude information of the transponder came from the captain's side, and now the left altimeter is [-] feet.And when Xu Cang switched the altitude selection switch of the transponder to his side, the altitude information on the control radar also changed to the altitude of his side, which was [-] feet.
When the altitude is unreliable, the altitude information on the control side is likely to be inaccurate, and the current situation has indeed confirmed this point.
Xu Cang glanced at the spare instrument, the altitude on it was more than 4000 feet.There is no need to verify this height, and it must be wrong.If it is really more than 4000 feet now, it is impossible for Xu Cang to think and speak so smoothly without wearing an oxygen mask.
Dude, not only is the airspeed all unreliable, but the altitude is all questionable too.
Even Xu Cang had expected it, but when he confirmed it, he still felt incredible.
"Is there any problem?" The supervisor actually guessed something, but still asked.
"There is a problem with the airspeed data, and there seems to be a problem with all the altitude data."
"Is there a problem with all the flight data?" Even the supervisor of the Tokyo area control has experienced many battles, but he has never encountered such a situation.
I have encountered problems with a certain airspeed indicator or a certain altimeter several times. How can all of them fail?
"Then what should I do now, can I rely on my eyesight?"
The supervisor glanced outside. Fortunately, the weather in the Tokyo area seems to be relatively good. If you rely on visual inspection, you should be able to ensure the vertical separation of the terrain, but what should you do if the airspeed cannot be used?
Xu Cang had thought about this method before, and he refused it almost without thinking: "No, the impact of the airflow under the broken windshield is very strong, and I can't see the outside world."
At this moment, the controller next to him suddenly said: "How about applying for the assistance of the Self-Defense Forces? They have active radars and should be able to measure the speed and altitude of the aircraft in real time. After sharing the data, we can verbally inform the crew."
Unlike civil aviation control radars, many military radars can actively search for targets, relying on radar reflection and the Doppler effect to determine the target's altitude, position and speed, without using the transponder information given by the target.
Now, due to the problem with the flight data of ANA 45 itself, the information transmitted by its transponder is all wrong.In addition to the horizontal trajectory seems to be correct, the rest of the altitude and speed information can not be referenced.
And without the transponder, it seems that there is only military radar.
"I didn't expect you to be useful at this time." The supervisor patted the controller on the shoulder and praised.
I have to say that this is indeed a good choice when there is nothing to do.Although if the military radar data is used, it may cause many other problems, but it is better than nothing.
"Xu Cang, we can try to apply for military radar data, so we can provide you with speed and altitude data in real time, what do you think?"
For this good idea, the supervisor was quite confident, but Xu Cang rejected it directly: "No need! I will solve the data problem of speed and altitude. You don't need to worry about it, just give me a heading."
Xu Cang is a person who is afraid of trouble, and he can also foresee that after calling the military radar data, he will also bring a lot of unexpected troubles to himself.
Of course, this is only one of the reasons.More importantly, Xu Cang felt that he was not at the end of his rope.If it is really on the verge of death that there is nothing to do, how can there be any trouble?
If it's troublesome, it means that Xu Cang thinks he's not that dangerous.
Moreover, the most important thing is that information such as speed and altitude that is related to his life and death is not a last resort, and he does not want to use what others give.This is equivalent to giving your life to the controller.
What if the controller provided wrong information?Did he just follow this wrong information and fly down?
Of course, logically speaking, this shouldn't happen.At least the controller has no position and motivation to do so, but Xu Cang is still willing to believe in himself, he will not pin his hope on a stranger.
Especially not to that point now!
But Xu Cang's words were not approved by the supervisor at all, what's the situation now?
Unable to see the outside world, can only rely on the instrument.But the most important speed and altitude data of the instrument are all useless, isn't that helpful?
"Xu Cang, you can trust us, we will definitely convey the speed and altitude information to you in a timely and accurate manner." The supervisor said urgently: "Please trust us. In instrument flight, without speed and altitude, how can you fly?" come down?"
"Is this man crazy? What is he thinking?"
"Are you still trying to be brave at this time?"
"Why does he think he can fall without our help? Where does he get his confidence?"
The conversation between Xu Cang and the supervisor was also heard by some other people. These people expressed their incomprehension to Xu Cang's refusal to help, and some even began to think that Xu Cang was self-willed and blindly confident.
Before, because Xu Cang asked to clear the aircraft over the entire Tokyo area, the control room here had already been under tremendous pressure. Many of them had complaints about Xu Cang, and this time they just took advantage of this to vent a little.
However, these words fell into the supervisor's ears, which directly aroused a fire in the supervisor's heart. He turned around and yelled at the group of people: "Shut up!"
Then, the supervisor adjusted his emotions, took a deep breath, and said in a voice as calm as possible: "Xu Cang."
However, before the supervisor finished speaking, Xu Cang's communication directly overwhelmed the supervisor's words: "You just knew my name, and you must have investigated me and got my information. You let me believe you? No! At this moment , I don't trust anyone, but you should trust me. I am Xu Cang, and I will solve all problems!"
I don't know how long it took, but the place was lifeless, as if there was a slight disturbance in the eternal darkness, a little light of reason broke through the dark curtain, and bloomed his own wisdom.
Suddenly, it was as if the person who was trapped in a nightmare and couldn't extricate himself finally got rid of everything that was entangled. The sound of whistling airflow rang in his ears, causing disturbance in the empty silence, and he could begin to perceive everything in the real world again.
Surrounded by the air current, Xu Cang slowly opened his eyes.At this moment, he was still holding the oxygen mask in his left hand, but the surroundings were no longer as cold as before.A little frost hung on his eyelashes, and even when he opened his eyes, the upper and lower eyelids were slightly bonded because of the frost.
"call!"
Xu Cang still kept his head down. Even without the help of an oxygen mask, Xu Cang seldom felt that his breathing was sluggish.This situation undoubtedly shows that the plane has fallen to a low enough altitude.
Putting the oxygen mask aside, looking at Takashi Kuroda who was still in a coma, Xu Cang let out a long breath and felt a little more relaxed.
Although Xu Cang doesn't like Boeing, he has to admit that the Boeing 737NG is indeed an aircraft with excellent static stability.
The so-called static stability means that the aircraft will deviate from its original position after being subjected to a short-term external disturbance, but the aircraft will spontaneously produce a tendency to return to the original equilibrium position.
Static stability includes longitudinal stability, lateral stability, and directional stability, which correspond to the XYZ three-axis of the aircraft in space.
The longitudinal stability of the aircraft is manifested in the fact that the aircraft has a tendency to automatically return to the original angle of attack when the angle of attack changes after being affected by a disturbance without applying an external force.
Aircraft longitudinal stability consists of wings, empennage, fuselage and engines.Among them, the horizontal tail is the most important component that provides the longitudinal stability of the aircraft. Its long moment arm can generate a large pitching moment, and its moment direction is just opposite to that of the wing.
For an aircraft with static stability, any change in the angle of attack must produce a moment that prevents the change, and the two are complementary.
Lateral static stability is the spontaneous reaction moment to the yaw moment of the wing, the sum of the wing and the vertical tail.However, its stability is also greatly affected by the dihedral angle of the wing, the sweep angle and the vertical tail.
Generally speaking, the dihedral provides lateral static stability, and the dihedral provides lateral instability.The Boeing 737 uses the dihedral.
For directional static stability, the aircraft achieves it through the vertical tail, while the Boeing 737 has a relatively large vertical tail, which performs well in directional stability.
Due to the operating characteristics of civil aviation airliners, the layout of static stability is generally adopted.The layout of static stability has its own advantages, but it also has disadvantages, such as losing part of the maneuverability.
For some maneuvers, even if the structural strength of civil aviation airliners is not considered, the aerodynamic layout itself will prevent the emergence of such a large maneuver just because of the existence of static stability.
Therefore, Xu Cang could only place all his hopes on the static stability of the 737NG when there was nothing he could do before.
The static stability of the aircraft is not a characteristic with particularly obvious and timely feedback at the microscopic level. Its characteristic is that only when there is a large deviation from the balance, there will be sufficient correction torque, which leads to the aircraft when the deviation is small. In fact, self-healing will not occur in time.
Only when the aircraft has a large deviation, the static stability will play a more obvious role.In the actual airspace, the airflow cannot be continuously stable, so the aircraft can only maintain a roughly stable state within a general state range.
It is for this reason that Xu Cang needs to control and clear the airspace within a radius of 25 nautical miles, because he cannot predict what state the plane will enter.
In order to ensure the static stability of the aircraft, Xu Cang finally retracted the speedbrake, but in the emergency descent procedure of decompression, the speedbrake should be pulled out so that the speedbrake can be descended at the fastest speed.However, the speedbrake itself is a device that destroys the lift force. It is reasonable to say that there should be no problem of extension. However, for the sake of safety, to prevent the speedbrake from affecting the aerodynamic layout of the aircraft, thereby changing the static stability of the aircraft, Xu Cang can only Retract the speedbrake.
In addition, Xu Cang also reopened the yaw damper.This is to prevent the aircraft from falling into some unpredictable complex states, such as Dutch rolls.
At the same time, Xu Cang tried his best to fit himself into the oxygen mask, so that he could breathe the pure oxygen blown from the weak mask, so that he would not fall into too deep hypoxia and recover as soon as possible.
Relying on the extremely strong static stability of the 737, the plane forced itself to float down under the thrust of the idle vehicle.To be honest, the 737 is a model with a relatively strong sense of the times, and some pay too much attention to static stability.In fact, even if it is a deep stall, as long as the altitude is sufficient, the aircraft can even recover on its own without the pilot recovering, but the premise is that there must be a sufficient altitude, basically the bottom line is the altitude loss of more than [-] feet.
After a while, Xu Cang's consciousness gradually became clear and he regained his ability to think.
At this time, he half-closed his eyes. In the strong air current, his eyes could not be fully opened, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable.Xu Cang tried to raise his head, but the still strong airflow was unbearable for him, so he could only lower his head again and use the instrument panel to block the airflow.
Although the environment in the cockpit is still extremely harsh, and although there are still great difficulties in maneuvering, at least the problem of decompression and hypoxia seems to have been solved, which is an urgent problem involving life and death.
Xu Cang looked at the PFD immediately, and tried to distinguish the current status of the aircraft through various instruments such as the attitude indicator.
At this moment, he couldn't see the outside world, and he couldn't distinguish the specific range and attitude of his plane through the visual reference from the outside.However, it is not difficult to judge the status of the aircraft only through the instruments. There is relevant training in the instrument level stage of the aviation school, and it must be a necessary skill for any qualified pilot.
However, Xu Cang was stunned when he saw the various instruments.
There is nothing strange about the attitude indicator, the aircraft is in a pitch attitude of one degree.Even though the attitude is positive, it is not enough to keep the plane in level flight. The plane is now descending at a rate of [-] feet per minute.
Of course the plane is descending is not a concern, the problem is the altitude and speed.
At this moment, there were inconsistent displays on both the airspeed indicator and the altimeter, ie IAS DISAGREE and ALT DISAGREE.
"What do you mean? There is a problem with the static pressure port?" Xu Cang was startled. Is it because the airspeed and altitude are unreliable?
As we all know, the speed of the aircraft needs to use dynamic pressure and static pressure, while the altitude needs to use static pressure data.In this way, if there is only a problem with the dynamic pressure, that is, the pitot tube, it will only be a problem with the airspeed of the aircraft, and if there is any fault with the static pressure port, the speed and altitude data will be affected.
Of course, there is also an extreme situation, that is, both the pitot tube and the static pressure port are out of order.However, there are many backups of the pitot tubes and static pressure ports of the detection device on the aircraft, so it is unlikely that all of them will go wrong.
However, there is no point in guessing now.If it is just the airspeed or the altitude is the problem, it is actually relatively easy to deal with.However, if the speed and altitude are unreliable, things will be more difficult, not to mention the current environment in the cockpit of an aircraft is not so suitable for dealing with failures.Under the impact of the high air flow for a long time, even if Xu Cang regained consciousness, his body temperature has already been greatly affected. If he continues to delay like this, he may suffer from hypothermia.
I looked at the cockpit altitude indicator, and the light was still on, which indicated that the altitude of the aircraft was still above [-] feet.If the height is too low, Xu Cang will find it difficult.Because if the usual handling is followed, a climbing thrust and attitude should be set at this time to ensure the absolute need for obstacle clearance.
However, if the climb thrust is set, due to program restrictions, the maximum climb thrust must be used. Under such settings, the climb rate generally exceeds [-] feet per minute.I finally floated down from above, is it possible to go up again?
However, if the plane is above 10 feet, there is little to worry about.You must know that Mount Fuji, the highest peak in Japan, is only 10 feet, and according to the location, even if you fly straight to the north, it will take more than [-] minutes.If he is in a coma for [-] minutes, although the lack of oxygen is not too serious, but for such a long time, even if he does not die, at least he will not regain consciousness so clearly. Therefore, Xu Cang can be sure that the time from coma to waking will definitely not very long.
Moreover, now I can breathe relatively smoothly, which means that the altitude of the plane should not be too high, about 1 feet.In other words, the plane actually lost more than 2 feet during its coma.
This loss of height seems to be a lot, but under the thrust of the slow car, it is estimated to be enough to last for five or six minutes.
Based on the location I remembered before, it is absolutely impossible to fly to Mount Fuji in five or six minutes.Moreover, Mt. Fuji is only that big, if he could hit it, Xu Cang's luck would be too bad.
Previously, due to the damage of the mode control panel, the DU on the navigation page could not be used. Otherwise, the current position of the aircraft could be confirmed.However, it is not yet possible to determine whether the navigation page function is unavailable, or the related DU display failure.
If the DU display is faulty, you can regain relevant data by switching the DU display and switching the navigation page to the next DU.However, after Xu Cang glanced at the navigation page DU on the left, which was also unavailable, he was more inclined to believe that the navigation function had failed.
The damage to the mode control board has affected some other systems, which seems to include the navigation system, and it is not known whether the airspeed and altitude data problems are also caused by this reason.
Xu Cang raised his head slightly, glanced at the probe heating switches, and verified that the two switches were on.However, just looking up like this, the airflow blows on the face like a knife, which is very uncomfortable.
The reason why Xu Cang has to make sure that the probe heating switch is on is because in many cases, the problem of unreliable speed and altitude lies in icing.Why Boeing designed the probe heating device is precisely because holes like pitot tubes are more prone to ice accumulation in icing conditions than smooth fuselages.Once the probe ice builds up and blocks the pitot tube or static pressure port, the airspeed and altitude speed will follow.
Therefore, the first step in the quick checklist for dealing with unreliable airspeed is to check that the probe warm switch is on.
Knowing the most important reason for the unreliability of speed and altitude, Xu Cang felt more and more that it was not a problem with the probe, because the plane never passed through the icy area from the beginning to the end, so how could there be a problem of ice accumulation and blockage of the probe?
Of course, it is not to say that only ice accumulation will block the probe.There have also been some outrageous incidents in the history of civil aviation, such as small bugs blocking the aperture of the probe.However, this kind of thing is extremely small probability, and it can't be considered as a category.
In contrast, Xu Cang's man-made damage to the control panel caused a failure of the inertial reference of air data, which led to two important flight data problems.
In Xu Cang's impression, if there is a problem with the air data inertial reference, there is no relevant solution in the checklist.
"I hope it's not!" Xu Cang prayed in his heart.
For a pilot of Xu Cang's level, even if there is no airspeed and altitude display, he can still complete the landing only by visual inspection.For this kind of visual landing, Xu Cang is still very confident. He will come a hundred times, and he will not miss even one time.
But the problem is that now that the windshield is broken and under the impact of the airflow, Xu Cang can't hold his eyes even if he raises his head a little and looks outside.He could only fly with his head down and rely on the instruments. In this case, Xu Cang knew neither the speed nor the altitude of the plane, so how could he fall?
Is it possible to ask Xu Cang to do a real "blind drop" of the 747S2 switch?
In fact, this is not quite the same as the previous S2 switch event.You know, there was no problem with the plane's instruments that time. Although Xu Cang couldn't see it himself, Xia Shuyue gave him a proper reminder, and relied on Xu Cang's mental calculations to forcefully calculate an approach path.
But don't let Xia Shuyue come in now, even if you let a regular pilot come in, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.
The three factors of speed, altitude and throttle are undoubtedly the most basic data reference for any flight.But now two of them are unreliable, and the pilot can't make visual reference to the outside world, how can this fly?
However, Xu Cang, a seasoned pilot like Xu Cang, did not panic at all.After solving the life-and-death problem of hypoxic coma, Xu Cang can still live stably.
Since there is no need to set the plane to an absolute climb state, then according to Xu Cang's temperament, it must be kept in level flight.
Xu Cang freed his left hand and called up the performance page on the CDU, on which there was the full weight of the aircraft at the moment.
"61 tons."
Xu Cang slightly recalled, and directly increased the thrust of the twin engines to 74, and at the same time brought the aircraft attitude to two degrees.
Even when the airspeed or altitude is unreliable, the N1 and attitude of the aircraft are reliable, so you can set it with confidence.
Xu Cang's memory is amazing. He memorized the entire QRH manual, including memorized items and non-memorized items, including the last in-flight performance chapter.If we talk about the first part of the program, some pilots have been flying for decades, and they can basically memorize it, but ordinary people will definitely not be able to memorize the extremely complicated data in the latter part.
However, Xu Cang can retrieve it from memory at any time.
In fact, in the chapter of airspeed indication unreliable flight/traversing turbulent airflow, the chart of level flight with flaps fully retracted in the cruising phase shows only the N1 and attitude settings of [-] tons.
That is to say, at an altitude of 1 feet, with a total weight of 72 tons, the pitch attitude is set to two degrees, and N[-] is [-], which can ensure that the aircraft is in a level flight state.
However, the current height is about 1 feet, and it must be able to accurately meet the height of 172 feet, and the total weight is also slightly heavier than 74 tons.However, there is no more detailed reference in the performance chapter of QRH, so Xu Cang slightly increased the thrust on the basis of N[-], and increased it to [-] to ensure that the aircraft would not descend.
Even under the thrust of 74, the plane rose slightly, Xu Cang could react more calmly after he noticed the abnormality in his body.
After setting the thrust, Xu Cang glanced at the three airspeed indicators, namely the captain's side, the co-pilot's side and the backup instrument.With an N72 of 1 and a pitch attitude of two degrees, the aircraft should eventually stabilize at around 280 knots.
Considering that Xu Cang slightly increased N1, this stable value may be slightly greater than 280 knots, but the difference should not be too much.
However, after Xu Cang glanced at the three airspeed indicators, his face suddenly sank.The airspeed indicator on the captain's side showed that the plane had reached more than 310 knots, and the backup instrument was at 230 knots, but on his own side it was only more than 280 knots, and none of the airspeed indicators was even slightly consistent with [-] knots.
"Is there any problem?" Xu Cang was stunned, his luck is so bad?
Generally speaking, the captain's side, the co-pilot's side and the backup instrument use relatively independent detection equipment, so it is basically impossible for all three instruments to fail.
Although under the pressure of reality, Xu Cang had to admit that his luck was a little bit bad, but God can't make trouble like this, right?
Xu Cang pondered in his heart: "Could it be that there is something wrong with the inertial reference of the air data?"
If this is the case, then the navigation page function may also be affected.Because part of the data of the aircraft's navigation system comes from the inertial reference of atmospheric data.
In this way, the unavailable navigation page function is really not a problem with the DU display, but that the navigation system is really unusable.
If an ordinary pilot sees this situation, the windshield is broken, unable to see the outside world, the airspeed is not reliable, and the altitude may not be available at all, I am afraid that the heart will be ashamed.
That's right, there is indeed no danger to life now.But in such a situation, how can the plane fall down?
If you can't fall, you can only wait to die!
But who is Xu Cang?
It's just that he can't see it, but he doesn't have a reliable airspeed, but he doesn't have a reliable altitude. He can still drop the plane. It's ten times more difficult than the current situation, and he survived.
Since it is strongly suspected that there is a problem with the inertial reference of air data, there is no need to think about solving the problem.Therefore, Xu Cang directly gave up on the correction of the speed and altitude problems, and groped for the door unlock knob of the central console again.
The previous time Xu Cang was unconscious due to lack of oxygen, so he turned in the wrong direction, so that the hatch was not unlocked.But this time, Xu Cang's consciousness was clear, he tried again, and the direction was correct, but the hatch locking system still didn't respond at all.
"Huh?" Xu Cang looked back to confirm that he did not make any mistakes in the operation, and tried again, but the hatch still did not respond.
Now Xu Cang's face changed a little. Compared with the problems on the flight data display, Xu Cang actually cared more about the problem of the cabin door locking system.At least in Xu Cang's opinion, the problem of the control of the plane is not as good as the problem of opening the door.
Now that the interior of the cockpit of the plane is seriously damaged, and the plane is not too high, Xu Cang can't completely ignore the plane and deal with Takashi Kuroda's problem, right?
Looking at Takashi Kuroda who was still in a coma, Xu Cang pondered for a moment, it seems that this problem is not as difficult as imagined, it is better to land as soon as possible.
Xu Cang pressed the call bell in the cabin, and the captain and others who were waiting eagerly in the cabin answered the phone before the first-class flight attendant.
"This is the cockpit, I'm Xu Cang."
Xu Cang, who was conscious, spoke Japanese first, and the captain, who was always worried, almost sat down: "Mr. Xu, it's great to hear your voice, what happened to the plane just now?"
"The windshield is cracked, and the person who hijacked the plane is unconscious. Now I'm trying to land as soon as possible. When I descended just now, was anyone injured behind?" Xu Cang asked.
"The windshield is cracked?" The captain was taken aback, and secretly thought that this was the reason for the decompression of the plane.
In fact, the captain was really wrong.In the beginning, the windshield was not broken when the aircraft was depressurized, but Takashi Kuroda mistakenly turned off the dual components, and Xu Cang acquiesced in this operation.
In fact, Xu Cang's strategy of allowing Takashi Kuroda to turn off the components to disable him would be extremely wonderful if the plane hadn't been too close to the dangerous cloud in the south, causing the windshield to burst.
Of course, it finally came back to the question. Xu Cang's luck was not very good.
However, although the process was somewhat tortuous, at least the purpose of incapacitating Kuroda Takashi was achieved.
The captain hurriedly said: "Hurry up and open the door, let us go in. Now the plane has descended to a low place, we can move even without oxygen masks. The co-pilot and I got the man out and controlled it."
Although Takashi Kuroda was in a coma, the captain still felt that he needed to get the man out and control him to avoid any further problems.
"No!" Xu Cang said with some regret: "After the windshield broke, the plane seemed to have some unexpected problems. Many systems failed, including the locking system of the cockpit. I tried it twice just now. The doors won't even open."
"Can't open the door?" The captain was stunned: "Then do you want to help?"
"No, I will come in and land. According to estimates, we will land in Yokohama the soonest." Xu Cang was talking, and suddenly felt a noise coming from the opposite side, followed by a clear female voice: "Xu Cang ,Are you OK?"
Xu Cang recognized that it was Xia Shuyue's voice, and immediately laughed: "What can I do? It's just a small problem, I can handle it well, the plane"
Xu Cang wanted to say something, but another channel sounded in the earphone: "ANA45, this is Tokyo control, please answer."
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows, and said to Xia Shuyue: "I will land as soon as possible, you just sit down, I'm going to be busy."
After finishing speaking, Xu Cang directly switched the transmitter to VHF1, and replied: "ANA45, the plane is under control now, apply for radar guidance, and land nearby."
In the Tokyo area control room, in the past few minutes, the controller tried to call ANA Flight 45 every half a minute, but there was no answer. I didn't expect that there was a response this time.
In an instant, most of the Tokyo area control room cheered, and the supervisor breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, something big happened."
The supervisor directly pulled away the controller and took the microphone: "Excuse me, are you Xu Cang from Spring Airlines? Did you send the communication just now? How is the plane now? Where is the hijacker? Is anyone injured?"
The supervisor asked a lot of questions in a series, and Xu Cang had to answer them one by one: "I am Xu Cang, and I also sent the previous communication. Now the windshield of the plane is broken, which caused some other problems. The airspeed and altitude data are not available. It's reliable. As for the hijacker, he is in a coma now, and I don't know if there are any casualties in the cabin, but the conversation with the cabin was interrupted by you just now."
"The windshield is broken?" The supervisor suddenly wondered, no wonder the background noise that always exists in the sound quality of the radio communication should be the whistling sound of the airflow.
Even though Xu Cang can already lower his head and only needs to withstand a relatively small amount of airflow impact, the communication environment is still not good.However, there is no urgency in terms of physical issues right now, so even if you can't explain clearly, you can repeat it.
Hearing that Xu Cang's tone was relatively normal and his logic was relatively clear, the supervisor was finally completely relieved this time.Just now he had a private phone call with the JCAB bureau. If he fails to establish contact with ANA Flight 45, this out-of-control plane will become a huge threat to Tokyo, and it is possible to take some "necessary" measures.
However, the director of JCAB seemed unwilling to make this decision, and ordered the supervisor of the control room to contact the crew as much as possible, and not to take necessary measures unless it was absolutely necessary.
It is the insistence of the JCAB director that he has been able to wait until now to re-establish contact with Xu Cang.
The supervisor glanced at the position of the signal point of ANA Flight 45, and immediately said: "You are the closest to Yokohama Airport, and we can guide you to Yokohama Airport. Tokyo's airspace has been basically cleared, and you have the highest priority. You can land as soon as possible. Can you please?" accept?"
Yokohama Airport is exactly where Xu Cang expected to land, and he immediately responded, "Yes!"
Xu Cang paused for a moment: "On your control radar, what is the current altitude of the plane?"
Mentioning the director’s heart trembled, recalling that Xu Cang mentioned that there was a problem with the altitude information just now, he immediately understood: “The radar shows that the altitude of your plane is [-] feet, but it should be your altitude data. question."
Xu Cang didn't answer right away, but touched the transponder panel of the central console with his left hand, and switched the altitude selection switch from machine No. [-] to machine No. [-].
"now what?"
Following Xu Cang's switch, the altitude of ANA Flight 45 on the control radar screen immediately jumped from [-] feet to [-] feet.
"This..." The supervisor was stunned for a moment, but he said immediately, "Now it's [-] feet."
In the cockpit, Xu Cang sighed secretly: "It really is so!"
At the beginning, the altitude information of the transponder came from the captain's side, and now the left altimeter is [-] feet.And when Xu Cang switched the altitude selection switch of the transponder to his side, the altitude information on the control radar also changed to the altitude of his side, which was [-] feet.
When the altitude is unreliable, the altitude information on the control side is likely to be inaccurate, and the current situation has indeed confirmed this point.
Xu Cang glanced at the spare instrument, the altitude on it was more than 4000 feet.There is no need to verify this height, and it must be wrong.If it is really more than 4000 feet now, it is impossible for Xu Cang to think and speak so smoothly without wearing an oxygen mask.
Dude, not only is the airspeed all unreliable, but the altitude is all questionable too.
Even Xu Cang had expected it, but when he confirmed it, he still felt incredible.
"Is there any problem?" The supervisor actually guessed something, but still asked.
"There is a problem with the airspeed data, and there seems to be a problem with all the altitude data."
"Is there a problem with all the flight data?" Even the supervisor of the Tokyo area control has experienced many battles, but he has never encountered such a situation.
I have encountered problems with a certain airspeed indicator or a certain altimeter several times. How can all of them fail?
"Then what should I do now, can I rely on my eyesight?"
The supervisor glanced outside. Fortunately, the weather in the Tokyo area seems to be relatively good. If you rely on visual inspection, you should be able to ensure the vertical separation of the terrain, but what should you do if the airspeed cannot be used?
Xu Cang had thought about this method before, and he refused it almost without thinking: "No, the impact of the airflow under the broken windshield is very strong, and I can't see the outside world."
At this moment, the controller next to him suddenly said: "How about applying for the assistance of the Self-Defense Forces? They have active radars and should be able to measure the speed and altitude of the aircraft in real time. After sharing the data, we can verbally inform the crew."
Unlike civil aviation control radars, many military radars can actively search for targets, relying on radar reflection and the Doppler effect to determine the target's altitude, position and speed, without using the transponder information given by the target.
Now, due to the problem with the flight data of ANA 45 itself, the information transmitted by its transponder is all wrong.In addition to the horizontal trajectory seems to be correct, the rest of the altitude and speed information can not be referenced.
And without the transponder, it seems that there is only military radar.
"I didn't expect you to be useful at this time." The supervisor patted the controller on the shoulder and praised.
I have to say that this is indeed a good choice when there is nothing to do.Although if the military radar data is used, it may cause many other problems, but it is better than nothing.
"Xu Cang, we can try to apply for military radar data, so we can provide you with speed and altitude data in real time, what do you think?"
For this good idea, the supervisor was quite confident, but Xu Cang rejected it directly: "No need! I will solve the data problem of speed and altitude. You don't need to worry about it, just give me a heading."
Xu Cang is a person who is afraid of trouble, and he can also foresee that after calling the military radar data, he will also bring a lot of unexpected troubles to himself.
Of course, this is only one of the reasons.More importantly, Xu Cang felt that he was not at the end of his rope.If it is really on the verge of death that there is nothing to do, how can there be any trouble?
If it's troublesome, it means that Xu Cang thinks he's not that dangerous.
Moreover, the most important thing is that information such as speed and altitude that is related to his life and death is not a last resort, and he does not want to use what others give.This is equivalent to giving your life to the controller.
What if the controller provided wrong information?Did he just follow this wrong information and fly down?
Of course, logically speaking, this shouldn't happen.At least the controller has no position and motivation to do so, but Xu Cang is still willing to believe in himself, he will not pin his hope on a stranger.
Especially not to that point now!
But Xu Cang's words were not approved by the supervisor at all, what's the situation now?
Unable to see the outside world, can only rely on the instrument.But the most important speed and altitude data of the instrument are all useless, isn't that helpful?
"Xu Cang, you can trust us, we will definitely convey the speed and altitude information to you in a timely and accurate manner." The supervisor said urgently: "Please trust us. In instrument flight, without speed and altitude, how can you fly?" come down?"
"Is this man crazy? What is he thinking?"
"Are you still trying to be brave at this time?"
"Why does he think he can fall without our help? Where does he get his confidence?"
The conversation between Xu Cang and the supervisor was also heard by some other people. These people expressed their incomprehension to Xu Cang's refusal to help, and some even began to think that Xu Cang was self-willed and blindly confident.
Before, because Xu Cang asked to clear the aircraft over the entire Tokyo area, the control room here had already been under tremendous pressure. Many of them had complaints about Xu Cang, and this time they just took advantage of this to vent a little.
However, these words fell into the supervisor's ears, which directly aroused a fire in the supervisor's heart. He turned around and yelled at the group of people: "Shut up!"
Then, the supervisor adjusted his emotions, took a deep breath, and said in a voice as calm as possible: "Xu Cang."
However, before the supervisor finished speaking, Xu Cang's communication directly overwhelmed the supervisor's words: "You just knew my name, and you must have investigated me and got my information. You let me believe you? No! At this moment , I don't trust anyone, but you should trust me. I am Xu Cang, and I will solve all problems!"
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