Chapter 46: Communication System Damage
The senior officials at the Prime Minister's residence all cheered excitedly when they heard that the terrorists had been eliminated, finally eliminating the possibility of crashing into the building.
After Howard's excitement, he thought of a possibility and said, "Could this be Nelson's trick to deceive us so as to facilitate the plane crashing into the building."
His speculation stifled the happy and peaceful atmosphere in the room. Everyone looked at him, unwilling to believe it was true.
The prime minister said, "Have the Typhoon fighter pilot reconfirm."
Hasseth swept past the airliner again, this time to a Chinese man flying it, and reported the situation.
After a series of tosses and turns, the airliner was flying over the Greenwich area of Greater London, just 15 minutes from London's Heathrow International Airport. The airliner was in an emergency situation and could have crashed from high altitude at any time.
The Secretary of Defense wanted to confirm through his nephew Cameron in the next, then a consideration, if this is really Nelson's scheme, Cameron under threat, is unlikely to tell the truth. Asking is also a waste of time, but he does have a solution. "Lord Prime Minister, the confirmation is simple, we just need to let the airliner change its route. If the airliner changes its route, then all the hijackers on the plane will really be wiped out!"
The prime minister asked, "The airliner has been damaged and may crash at any time, it cannot make a long-distance flight. Where do you intend to fly him to?"
The defense minister said, "Royal Northolt Air Force Base."
The prime minister knew that the Northolt RAF base is in west London, can take off and land large transport aircraft, with landing Boeing 777-300er super long run to, and this is a military restricted area, there are a large number of special military guards, all kinds of fire, special warfare equipment, even if there are terrorists inside, are not afraid of him to fly up to the sky. Not to mention that this airbase is not like the RAF Brize Norton, 105 kilometers from London, is the largest airbase in the United Kingdom, which does not have too many secrets, and is not afraid of people to see.
After they finished their research, they immediately let the tower contact Liao Fei and informed Hasseth that they could always shoot down once they did not change their course.
Liao Fei was so nervous flying such a big plane that he kept learning how to fly the plane with the people in the tower. Fortunately, the tower people did not ignore Liao Fei while waiting for orders, and the communication system was not a problem, otherwise Liao Fei would have been confused!
According to the tower's instructions, Liao Fei changed course under their instruction and flew to Northolt RAF base.
By this time, both the tower and the Prime Minister and others had been convinced that the terrorists on the plane had been eliminated and that the plane had regained control in the hands of a ... man with no flying experience.
The prime minister and others do not know whether to cry or laugh, now the airliner's condition is not at all better than before, now hit or not hit the building, it is no longer shifted by personal will, it is completely by luck. And even if the airliner will not appear to crash midway, landing is also the biggest problem.
The plane took off in 6 minutes and landed in 7 minutes, known as the "black 13 minutes". This is the time when the pilot is most nervous and focused on the aircraft. More than half of the world's air crashes occur within the black 13 minutes, and Chinese statistics show that up to 65% of domestic air crashes occur within the black 13 minutes. There is nothing more famous in the history of the black moment than the black thirteen minutes suffered by the former president of Poland.
No one was optimistic that the plane would land safely when a novice pilot with no experience in flying landed a giant airliner with more than 300 people on board at the most dangerous moment.
The tower urgently called in the most experienced captain flying the Boeing 777 to direct Liao Fei. North Holt Royal Air Force Base also moved, here as if to be robbed, all the aircraft all parked in the hangar, the hangar can not be put, the fighter jets and helicopters moved far away, not only the longest runway to Liao Fei vacated, but also to run to the surrounding all vacated, can not see any one aircraft.
The prime minister is afraid that the air base's firefighting force is not enough, specially let London's fire department to send a large number of fire engines, major hospitals also sent many fire engines, ready for first aid. Not only that, soldiers of the Special Air Service Regiment were also on standby in full gear, ready to rush onto the plane.
The instruments in the cockpit were shot out by Turner with four or five gunshot holes, some of which were still sparking with electricity, and Liao Fei did not know what electronic equipment would be damaged in the next moment.
Although the cockpit on the Boeing 777 has thirty percent of spare equipment used to ensure flight safety, the key is that many buttons Liao Fei do not know what he is doing.
The captain in the tower told Liao Fei that the Boeing 777 has ils system. Both the instrument landing system, which is the role of the ground to transmit two beams of radio signals to achieve the guidance of the heading path and downtrack, to establish a virtual path from the runway to the air, the aircraft through the on-board receiving equipment, to determine their relative position with the path, so that the aircraft along the correct direction to the runway and smoothly drop altitude, and finally achieve a safe landing. The Boeing 777 will automatically align with the runway, and the auto-throttle will automatically decelerate, as long as Liao Fei monitors the aircraft's airspeed, altitude and attitude through the instrumentation. When approaching, operations such as flap release are performed based on the data.
Liao Fei was relieved that it didn't seem too difficult, as long as the data was communicated to the captain in the tower and the flaps were lowered in time!
Lin Jiaqin and He Jiayu came to the cockpit to see how Liao Fei was doing. Wang Liqiang also followed, he held on to the cockpit door when the plane broke, did not fly out, and so on after the loss of pressure, and then quickly ran to Lin Jiaqin, for her to bring the oxygen mask, fully perform the duties of a qualified bodyguard.
Dong Ying also came to the cockpit, to see what can help, the small cockpit in a sudden entry of many people. Liao Fei looked at them and said, "You guys go ask right away if anyone can fly the plane."
With these words, Liao Fei almost didn't scare the four people, he didn't know how to fly a plane.
Dong Ying immediately said to all the passengers through the radio, "The plane is experiencing an emergency, any passengers who can fly the plane please come to the cockpit immediately. Repeat, ..."
Her words immediately made the passengers on the plane explode, people were crying, trembling and desperate ...
Trying to find a qualified pilot among more than 300 people was like buying a lottery ticket. People were expecting in desperation, and a minute later, desperate in waiting.
Dong Ying saw a flight attendant in the economy class come to the cockpit and asked, "Sister Ma Li, why are you coming over!"
"Ying Ying, I had a Boeing 777 flight on the flight simulator, I don't know if it's useful?"
"You've also learned this?" Dong Ying grew her mouth in surprise, she and Ma Li had been flying together for almost half a year and didn't even know that she had also flown the simulator.
Ma Li nodded, looked at Liao Fei and asked, "Do you need my help?"
Although there is a director to command, but there is a person who has flown the simulator, but also will be a lot of help, at least to check the gaps to fill in the gaps. Liao Fei nodded his head and agreed to her help.
Ma Li sat nervously on the right side, in the co-pilot's seat, put on the headset, and said to Dong Ying, "Ying Ying, it's my first time to fly, I'm a little nervous, can you help me pour a cup of coffee?"
Dong Ying immediately went and poured two cups of coffee, one for Ma Li and one for Liao Fei.
The plane came to the sky over the Northolt RAF base fairly smoothly, Liao Fei followed the activation of the ils system, but found that it could not locate the runway automatically. Liao Fei hurriedly told the captain about this situation, and the captain analyzed that the bullet had destroyed the VHF heading beacon station of the ils system's instrument landing system. The heading beacon station is to give the heading surface aligned with the runway centerline, and its damage directly affected the operation of the ils system.
Now the only way to get this behemoth on the ground is to operate it manually. Liao Fei switched back to manual operation and was about to rely on the captain's instructions to make the landing when Ma Li, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, suddenly splashed coffee down the hole made by the bullet.
Sting La La! A flash of electric sparks and the pungent smell of burning rubber came out. Everyone in the cockpit stared dumbfounded at the trembling Ma Li.
Wang Liqiang shouted angrily, "What are you doing?"
"I ... I ..." stammered Ma Li, not knowing what she was trying to say.
From the fact that she splashed coffee towards the bullet hole, it was clear that she must have done it on purpose, and there was nothing to explain this. Can't say she was suddenly possessed! Liao Fei and others are atheists, even if she said that, they would not believe it.
Wang Liqiang rushed over, grabbed her neck collar, yanked her out of her seat directly, raised his hand and slapped her in the face, pulled out his gun and put it on her head, and shouted angrily, "Say, what the hell are you?"
"I ... have my family captured, and if the plane doesn't crash, my family will all die."
Dong Ying originally hated Ma Li, Ma Li's approach is to let her die ah! But at this moment, she was sympathetic to Ma Li.
"You let more than 300 of us die with you for the sake of your family?" Wang Liqiang was so angry that fire came out of his eyes.
"I can't let my one-year-old daughter go." Ma Li cried out in pain.
Children are the creatures that can hit the soft spot in a person's heart the most, and Wang Liqiang's gun against her head loosened.
Lin Jiaqin and He Jiayu's hatred for her also disappeared a lot, silently looking at Liao Fei.
Liao Fei has been staring at the meter since she made that move, afraid of what could go wrong again, simply not in the mood to care about Ma Li. He believes that Wang Liqiang and He Jiayu will not let her in the destruction.
So far, the instrumentation is normal, there is no sudden power failure of such cases. There was just one problem, the tower's voice was not heard again on the radio.
Liao Fei did not know if the tower did not speak at this time, or the communication system is damaged. "Call the tower, call the tower."
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"Flight c993 to tower, please respond."
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He Jiayu came to the co-pilot's position, picked up the headset, and also called, "Flight c993 to tower, please respond."
Three times in a row, the tower did not respond. Everyone's heart sank, with no one in command, to let Liao Fei land the plane safely by himself, no one had confidence, including Liao Fei himself.
Liao Fei knew that there were flight manuals on the flight, which had various explanations. Pilots many times are not omnipotent, once again unexpected situation, also have to check the flight manual. He shouted, "Dong Ying, quickly find the flight manual and tell me the landing speed of the plane."
Dong Ying quickly flipped through the flight manual and finally found the landing page and shouted, "Two hundred and fifty kilometers."
"What else do you need to do, tell me everything."
"I'm looking, I'm looking." Dong Ying flipped through the manual quickly, in a hurry.