Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 403 Shocking Japan!Prophet Xu Cang!
As soon as the sound sounded, the cockpit fell into a brief silence, and the captain who was still furious immediately calmed down: "Have we entered the airspace?"

In the plan of WN3102, there is no reference to any possible plans in the country.

For example, in the flight plan from Tokyo to Guam, an airport in a coastal city in China is selected as an alternate route, so according to international regulations, Southwest Airlines needs to submit the flight plan of this flight to CAAC. So if there is a special situation, such as breaking into the eastern coastal airspace without communication, it will not cause too violent a reaction, after all, it is well known.

However, the plan for flight WN3102 does not involve any domestic airports and routes, so Southwest Airlines will naturally not submit the flight plan to CAAC, so once it enters the domestic airspace, it is an aircraft of unknown meaning, naturally to be intercepted.

"Communication restored?" Richard Bayer was very pleasantly surprised, and before the call on the emergency frequency ended, he planned to explain the situation.Although the other party was not as reckless as Russia, Richard Bayer didn't want to test anything in this kind of thing.

"We are flight WN3102. Due to an electrical system failure, there are wounded on board who need first aid, and the plane needs to go to China for an alternate landing," Richard Beyer reported directly in Chinese.

After Richard Bayer's report, there was no immediate response.However, soon there was a ray of light in the surroundings, and a bright spot fell from the sky above the cockpit.

The bright spot is the tail nozzle of the engine. The bright spot is located in the left front of WN3102, and always maintains a roughly equal distance.

With the help of moonlight, the outline of the fighter plane can be seen vaguely, and the fighter plane shakes its lower wings left and right. This is a relatively standard behavioral signal, that is, follow me.

"Keep a distance, I will guide you." A deep voice sounded on the emergency frequency.

Richard Baier was overjoyed, and just wanted to explain the controllability of his plane to the fighter pilot, but Xu Cang took off the headset of the original co-pilot and pressed the speaking button: "We have chosen to suspend the alternate landing in China. , please guide us to fly to Japan. If continuous guidance is not possible, just give us an initial guidance. Based on the current location, the northeast direction should be Kyushu, Japan, but we cannot accurately grasp it.”

Since the airspaces of the two countries are very close to each other, in many cases, it is not possible to conduct long-term guidance on our own side, otherwise some disputes will easily arise.However, it should not be too far away from the Japanese island at this moment. As long as there is an initial guidance and the initial course is determined, the influence of the high-altitude wind on the flight track can be ignored in a short period of time.

Perhaps it was the two requests before and after that made the other party a little confused. After Xu Cang made the request this time, the other party did not reply further.

Xu Cang then directly revealed his identity: "I am Xu Cang, a registered pilot of CAAC Spring and Summer Airlines, flight crew boarding pass number SA00829, ICAO first-level flight specialist, number 41357, you can verify my identity with CAAC and ICAO, But hurry up, I'm hurt, I can't last long."

After Xu Cang revealed his identity, there was a response from the radio: "I'll go check it out, wait a minute."

"Are you really going to Japan? What's the difference, or do you believe that the plane will crash?" Richard Bayer didn't object too much to Xu Cang's going to Japan, but his current energy couldn't support the voyage at all. The farther Japan is the end point, so why not land nearby?

With Xu Cang's ability, as long as there is a slight possibility, then he can expand this possibility infinitely.But judging from various performances, Xu Cang expressed great pessimism about the success of the landing.

"That's right, there is no difference in itself, because even if I land nearby, I won't be able to fall." Xu Cang spoke weakly: "However, I am still working hard to survive."

"Work hard, what are you trying to do?" The captain roared: "If you can't fall, who else can fall? You gave up, and we still pin our hopes on you."

The captain put away the seat directly: "It doesn't matter where you are going, but I don't want to go crazy with you, I want to go out!"

As he said that, the captain directly reached out to close the components, wanting to actively depressurize the aircraft, otherwise they would not be able to open the hatch at all under the huge pressure difference.However, he was in a daze. The moment the aircraft was powered off, the electrically driven bleed air system had already failed, and there was no air available for the components, and the aircraft was in a situation of slow decompression.

His operation didn't actually have any effect.

However, although the aircraft cabin is not completely airtight, the air sealing effect is still somewhat, and the pressurized air in the cabin escapes relatively slowly, so that the altitude in the cabin will not rise too fast.

When his hand touched the component switch, the captain realized this problem, and immediately moved his right hand down to the manual control switch of the additional panel. He wanted to manually open the exhaust valve to let the pressurized air in the cabin be discharged as soon as possible, so that Can release pressure more quickly.

However, before he touched it, Xu Cang's mocking voice sounded: "Don't you know that the control valve of the exhaust valve also needs electricity?"

The captain was startled, and his whole body froze on the spot.

Xu Cang continued: "It is impossible for you to receive complete skydiving training, so the parachutes in the first-class cabin should be automatic. There is a problem with the parachutes that open automatically, that is, they also need electronic equipment to judge the altitude, but just now after the impact of the solar storm , Can those electronic devices still be used? Or, do you think you can open the parachute by yourself without relying on auxiliary devices at all?"

Xu Cang's words directly hit the captain's heart. He always felt that he had one more escape route than Xu Cang. Although there might be no rescue, compared with the uncontrollable plane, at the last moment, he could still choose parachute.

However, it seems that this road is also a dead end.

The solar storm just now almost destroyed most of the electronic equipment on board, so the electronic device for controlling the opening of the parachute was also affected.

Of course, it may still be usable. After all, the electronic equipment on the plane is not completely unusable, just like the communication system failed in the front, but after leaving the aurora zone, the communication system recovered a little bit. Although it is still in the The downgrade method is at least usable.

However, the premise of all this is that the electronic equipment in the large passenger aircraft has a lot of backup margins, but can the automatic control device of the parachute have such a backup margin?

The captain's face as black as the bottom of a pot already showed everything.

There is no electronic equipment for automatic parachute opening, so what is the difference between asking them to parachute and betting their lives on the half-dead Xu Cang?
Perhaps the despair was extreme, the captain gritted his teeth: "Yes, you know everything, but you are not going to die, what's the use?"

"Who said that I will die, who said that I will not fall?" Xu Cang tried his best to sit up a little: "We still have a chance!"

"What!" Richard Bayer was incredulous: "Xu Cang, the joystick and accelerator are all out of control, so can you still fall?"

In fact, if only one of the joystick or the throttle is out of control, there is definitely a chance.

For example, if the control stick is out of control, then completely abandon the use of the side stick, and only use the throttle to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. This control requires extremely fine, but there are successful precedents in the history of civil aviation.

If it is just a loss of throttle control, then if the altitude is sufficient, they can directly cut off the two engines, that is, convert to a complete drifting approach with the two engines turned off, and there have been cases where the plane landed only by gliding.

Well, since there are precedents, Richard Bayer feels that there is a possibility of successful manipulation.

However, if the joystick and the throttle are all out of control, it simply eliminates all possibilities of success. For example, if both engines are turned off, the pilot needs to constantly fine-tune the attitude of the aircraft to achieve an appropriate descent rate.

However, now that the joystick is out of control, how to make delicate and accurate fine-tuning of attitude?
From his own cognitive level, Richard Bayer couldn't think of any way to succeed.However, ants are still alive, he doesn't believe that Xu Cang will make fun of his own life.

He said that there is a chance of life, so there should be a chance of life.

"It is true that the joystick or the accelerator are out of control, but in a sense, they are not completely out of control." Xu Cang said in a low voice.

At this time, the captain also calmed down, he felt that Xu Cang had discovered something: "What do you mean not completely out of control?"

"If the flight control computer and FADEC are completely out of control, then when we don't apply new signals, both the attitude and the thrust of the aircraft should also be in a state of change. But in fact, as long as we stabilize the position of the throttle stick and the side If the signal is controlled by the stick, the aircraft will not produce new unpredictable changes."

The FADEC that Xu Cang mentioned is the full authority digital engine control system, which is the so-called "engine control" that they have been suspecting to be damaged just now.

This passage of Xu Cang directly stunned Richard Bayer and the captain. This is a very small and ordinary point, but they never really thought about this phenomenon. Only Xu Cang discovered it. .

Indeed, if the flight control computer and engine control system have been completely confused, then under the same input signal, the rudder adjustment value and thrust value produced by them should always change.In other words, even if the throttle stick does not move now, and no new control signals are input to the side stick, the thrust and attitude of the aircraft should still be changing.

But in fact, neither the thrust nor the attitude of the aircraft has changed, and it is very stable.

This is to show that the flight control computer and engine control system are not completely confused.

Xu Cang continued: "Affected by the solar storm, the flight control computer and FADEC were indeed damaged, but this damage should only be a change in the corresponding relationship."

The captain obviously didn't understand, but Richard Beyer came back to think about it a bit, showing a thoughtful expression: "If according to what you said, then in a sense, this plane is indeed terrible. controlled, but"

"However, we have to find a new correspondence." Xu Cang sighed.

The captain was confused: "What are you talking about?"

Richard Baier said in a deep voice: "Take the side stick as an example, if we push the side stick forward two degrees, then under normal circumstances, the attitude of the aircraft should be reduced by two degrees, which is a linear relationship. However, the corresponding relationship has changed now, and the sidestick may be pushed forward by two degrees, which may be reflected on the rudder surface, which means that the attitude increases by one degree. Although this corresponding relationship is wrong, it is stable.”

Xu Cang's meaning is very simple, that is to find out the corresponding relationship of this error, then the plane can be operated normally.

The captain understood Xu Cang's thoughts, and he has to say that Xu Cang is indeed the No.1 civil aviation flight in the world. It is already beyond the reach of many pilots to think of a theoretical solution in such a near-desperate situation. to an extent.

The problem is, this is only theoretical.

The captain took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Except for the thrust reverse position, the throttle lever has a total of 25 scales, and each scale corresponds to a thrust value. The attitude change of the aircraft in pitch is only in the normal available attitude. value, that is between plus 45 degrees and minus 190 degrees, then there are forty scales. In terms of roll, within the normal range, [-] degrees left and right can cover almost all possible aircraft configurations, that is nine Ten scales. That is to say, you must find out the new value corresponding to the [-] scales on the wing in a short time, and there must be no deviation."

Under normal circumstances, there is no need to memorize the values ​​so accurately, because the numerical correspondence is linear and the change is uniform. Even if there is a certain deviation between what you think and what you do, the deviation will not a lot of.

It's like the throttle. Under normal circumstances, if the pilot pushes forward one more scale, the engine N1 speed may be increased by 1% to 1%. The impact is not great.However, in today's situation, the position of the throttle lever is different by one scale, and the difference in the N[-] speed of the engine is different. It may be a difference of ten or twenty N[-] at once. In this way, the state of the aircraft suddenly appears huge Deviated.

It may be slightly better at high altitudes because there is enough margin, but at low altitudes, this is fatal at all.

In fact, the captain still said less.

Because judging from the reaction just now, when the throttle lever is at the same position, the speed changes of the engines on both sides are actually inconsistent, so we can’t just use 120 scale intervals to describe it, but a full 250 scales, then the total The number of memory scales should be [-].

In other words, Xu Cang needs to find, clarify and memorize the corresponding relationship of 250 scales in the short time after flying to Japan.

There can be no slight error in this correspondence, otherwise, it is very likely that you will bring yourself a fatal disaster.

Rationally, the captain doesn't think this is possible, especially because Xu Cang's physical and mental state are very poor at the moment.

In addition, there is a very serious problem
"According to what you mean, shouldn't we try one by one?" Richard Bayer asked worriedly: "Besides, we don't have engine data to show, how can we judge the speed of the engine? Moreover, if we want to try, the state of the aircraft is likely to Make a big difference.”

"We are high enough to have room for trial and error." Xu Cang paused: "As for the sound of the engine, we can only rely on the sound of the engine running."

Richard Baier is not convinced: "It is possible to roughly distinguish the N1 speed by the sound of the engine running, but you can also hear the subtle differences? The difference in the speed sound of one percent, two percent Can you tell the difference?"

This is not a difference in technical ability, but determined by the physiological structure of human beings. Humans should not be able to distinguish the extremely subtle differences in sound.

Xu Cang pondered for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "I can only distinguish the speed difference of more than [-]%."

"Then what's the use?" the captain asked anxiously.

"I can't tell the difference, but someone can!" Xu Cang said flatly.

"Who?" Richard Bayer was taken aback: "On the plane?"

Richard Bayer was very surprised. In this world, there are people who can distinguish the sound difference of [-]% of the speed, and they are still on the plane?
Xu Cang nodded: "Yes, she is on the plane!"

At this moment, a deep voice came from the second VHF: "WN3102, I'm here to guide you to Japan, please follow me."

At this moment, in the bustling business district of Ginza, Tokyo, Ji Chuan, the president of Jiasu Airlines, came out of the restaurant and breathed the cold air of Tokyo at night.

That's right, Ji Chuan was in a bad mood.

In the conversation with JAL President Hideki Nagano just now, although Hideki Nagano was taken aback for a while, in the final analysis, the key to successfully occupying two seats on the JAL Board of Directors is that Jiasu Airlines can be promoted to The leader in the domestic airline market.

This is of course a condition that cannot be rejected. If it is merged into JAL as the number one airline in the Japanese domestic route market, then it will be a matter of course to get two board seats of JAL.The question is, is this really possible?
Xu Cang told him it was possible, but Ji Chuan knew with all his heart that among the top three airlines in the domestic market, All Nippon Airways was really on a healthy development track, and the second and third Jiasu Airlines and Japan Airlines were all comparing each other. How could it be possible to catch up with ANA?
Xu Cang talked to him a lot, besides becoming the number one in the domestic market, he also talked about the hearing.

In the past, Ji Chuan was so focused on seeing that Xu Cang didn't care about the hearing, thinking that he had a way to deal with it, but from the experience of observation, Xu Cang didn't have any momentum to turn around at all, and even because of some lies in the hearing And had a negative effect.

On the central square of Ginza, Ji Chuan raised his head and looked around. He was surrounded by world-famous high-end luxury stores and large shopping malls. The outer walls of the building were covered with giant LED screens, among which were advertisements and promotional videos. On that piece, the scene of Xu Cang's hearing was being played, in which Xu Cang's remarks about the possibility of the plane crashing into the Tokyo Tower were played in a loop.

I have to say that this sentence is indeed quite hateful.

Someone spent a lot of money on this LED screen, and the target was directed at Xu Cang.

In the open space below the LED screen, a large number of people gathered together, and some people held signs in their hands, which asked the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to block Xu Cang from now on and refuse Xu Cang's entry.

The biggest LED screen in Ginza and the publicity effect brought by the slogan of the rally are obvious. The Ginza area has already had an extremely astonishing flow of people, but now it has attracted many passers-by.It can only be said that the person who wrapped up the LED screen had a scheming heart, and just edited the remarks made by Xu Cang. In this way, any Japanese will get angry if they hear it.

Sure enough, after instigation, more and more people began to agree, demanding that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuse Xu Cang's entry and list him as an unwelcome blacklist.

Xu Cang's reputation in Japan was not very good because of various good things or the brewing of public opinion by radicals before, and under these remarks, he is simply a devil-like character through and through.

Excited!
"Crash into Tokyo Tower?" Ji Chuan Yixin sighed. Although it was suspected of being taken out of context, Ji Chuan Yixin couldn't understand that such controversial words could be said.

Looking far away, Tokyo Tower is still brightly lit, standing there quietly as a landmark building in Tokyo.

Ji Chuan didn't know how to judge Xu Cang: "You really dare to say that."

Looking at the intensified protest atmosphere in the central square, Ji Chuan was deeply worried about the fate of Jiasu Airlines.After all, just before the hearing, he publicly supported Xu Cang on behalf of Jiasu Airlines, and he tied himself to the same boat.

If Xu Cang is attacked by such a mountain roar and tsunami, then Jiasu Airlines will definitely not be spared.

Handing over Jiasu Airlines to Xu Cang, whether it is to survive from death, or to lure wolves into the house, Ji Chuan has already begun to lean towards the latter.

However, just when Ji Chuan was helpless and depressed, the picture of Xu Cang played on the giant LED suddenly stopped as far as he could see.Maybe this is not the time for renting, at least the group of people below who took the lead in protesting and boycotting looked up at the LED in astonishment, obviously they did not expect why this would happen.

Then, Xu Cang's still picture changed to NHK news.

"The following is an urgent special report. At 46:767 a.m. local time in the United States, a hijacked Boeing [-] plane crashed into Tower One of the World Trade Center"

As the host's voice fell, the screen switched again, and the center of Tower [-] of the World Trade Center, which was originally a landmark building, was burning with raging black smoke. In the screen, there were still a large number of people fleeing like a tide. The scene was chaotic, like the end of the world.

Just a moment ago, the crowd who were still furious about Xu Cang's mention of the possibility of the plane being hijacked and hitting the Tokyo Tower fell into a strange silence, and the atmosphere where the needles could be heard seemed to have stopped the world.

Ji Chuan stared blankly at the screen played on the LED screen, and murmured: "Xu Cang."

(End of this chapter)