Chapter 146 Suspension of Airbus Airworthiness Certificate
A hospital in Qizhou, all the passengers of flight 9451 were sent to this hospital for diagnosis and treatment. In fact, most of them were in good condition, but some elderly people could not stand the cold sea water. They only stayed in the sea water for a few minutes after evacuating the cabin, and were quickly pulled onto the life raft. But these few minutes had cost them half their lives.
Fortunately, the maritime search and rescue center acted quickly, and the rescue boat arrived shortly after all personnel boarded the life raft.
Because the forced landing on the water was extremely perfect, except for a few people with slight frostbite, the rest of the people were unharmed. But for the sake of safety, everyone had to go for a check-up, including Xu Cang.
However, Xu Cang's situation was a little special. He was not injured, but he almost died after entering the water. As we all know, Xu Cang's physique is really average. Even though he wore a life jacket after entering the water, he suffered a cramp in his right leg due to the excessive thrashing. If it weren't for the life jacket, he would have sunk immediately.
In the end, it was Shi Qi and Wu Taiming who pulled the floating Xu Cang onto the life raft. As handsome as his forced landing on the water was, he looked just as miserable after entering the water.
After being sent to the hospital, Xu Cang was examined, and his legs were massaged and heated. He gradually got better. Xu Cang originally planned to wait until his cramped legs got better, and then do some simple examinations and leave with other passengers. However, before he was discharged from the hospital, he was blocked by Lu Jinghua who rushed over.
Lu Jinghua followed the advice of teacher Xin Zhen and wanted to bring Xu Cang back from Shanhang by force. But things changed too quickly on Xu Cang's side. When he arrived in Qizhou to inquire about the situation, he found that Xu Cang had done something earth-shattering again.
In the ward, Lu Jinghua looked at Xu Cang who was reluctantly changing into his hospital gown, and carefully instructed him, "Do a thorough examination here and go back tomorrow."
"Where are you going back to?" Xu Cang lay down on the hospital bed, looking nonchalant.
Lu Jinghua pulled a chair and sat beside the bed: "Of course, we are going back to Jianchuan. I came here to take you back."
Xu Cang rolled his eyes: "Or should we go back to Lantian?"
"What else?" Lu Jinghua looked at Xu Cang suspiciously: "Are you really interested in Shan Hang?"
Xu Cang sneered, "If I didn't have something to do, Shandong Airlines would be ten thousand times better than Blue Sky. In the past, if I wanted to go back to Blue Sky, I needed to do something through Blue Sky. But now I've figured it out, I've decided to do it all in one go without going through Blue Sky Airlines, so why would I go back?"
Lu Jinghua was not actually surprised by Xu Cang's announcement that he was leaving Blue Sky Airlines. Instead, he was more curious about what Xu Cang was going to do after leaving Blue Sky Airlines.
Lu Jinghua has a good personal relationship with Xu Cang. However, he knows that apart from being a pilot, this guy is a useless guy. Lu Jinghua doesn't believe that Xu Cang can do anything else.
Xu Cang was still very close to Lu Jinghua. Xu Cang approached him mysteriously and asked, "Brother Lu, are you interested in changing your employer?"
Lu Jinghua looked up in surprise, and happened to meet Xu Cang's sly smile, and immediately became disgusted: "What on earth do you want to do?"
"There should be an airline company in Erhai Lake soon. Why don't you come and work with me?" Xu Cang said with a smile, "We two brothers will definitely not treat you unfairly."
Lu Jinghua smacked his lips and did not answer immediately. Instead, he thought about it carefully and asked uncertainly, "Ms. Qin Xinqin from Chunxia Travel said that they want to build an aviation base in Erhai Lake. Does this... have anything to do with what you said?"
Xu Cang's smile became brighter: "I was the one who instigated her to do it. However, now I think an aviation base is still too small. If we want to do it, we should just do it in one go."
"Wait a minute." Lu Jinghua interrupted Xu Cang and asked with bared teeth, "What is your relationship with Miss Qin? Why would she listen to you?"
As for Qin Xin, Xu Cang never treated her as an outsider, even though strictly speaking, the two of them were at most in a cooperative relationship.
"Hey, sooner or later we'll be a family, there's no such thing as one listening to the other!" Xu Cang shamelessly shouted: "Brother Lu, don't be so distant with Miss Qin in the future, she is your future sister-in-law, do you understand? And don't always call her Miss Qin, Miss Qin, it's so distant."
Lu Jinghua seemed to be under a spell that made time and space stop. He was stunned for more than ten seconds before he asked a heart-piercing question: "Are you a gigolo?"
In Lu Jinghua's opinion, no matter how powerful Xu Cang was, he was just a pilot. But Qin Xin was a senior executive of a large group and had a high status. The two seemed to have some gap in social status.
At least Xu Cang seemed to be marrying above his station!
But these problems are not problems at all for Xu Cang!
"Wrong! I'm not a gigolo!" Xu Cang even puffed out his chest proudly, like a male peacock showing off his tail feathers: "I'm a gigolo!"
Seeing Xu Cang being so shameless, Lu Jinghua exclaimed, "What a fellow! This is the first time that he, Lu Jinghua, has encountered someone who can talk about being a gigolo so confidently.
Xu Cang put his hands behind his head and leaned straight against the headboard, feeling a little annoyed: "Alas, you don't have much motivation at Blue Sky Airlines, why don't you come to my place."
"No, wait a minute!" Lu Jinghua interrupted Xu Cang and asked seriously, "I don't care about anything else, where did you get the quota to set up the airline?"
Xu Cang waved his hand, not caring at all: "Don't worry, I will get this done in the near future."
Lu Jinghua was a little suspicious: "You don't think you can bargain with the bureau just because you have dealt with a few special cases recently?"
"I know that the authority has a quota for establishing airlines every year, and it is difficult to give out an extra quota out of thin air. In this case, why not just grab an unused quota? The authority does not prohibit the transfer of quotas."
Lu Jinghua snorted, "It's easy for you to say that. Do you know how much a quota costs? No, that's something you can't buy even if you have money. Why would they transfer it?"
Xu Cang lost his patience: "Hey, why do you have such a question? I'm not asking you to get a quota, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Okay! One last question." Lu Jinghua raised a finger: "Do you have a stake in that new company?"
Xu Cang shook his head: "No!"
"What benefits can you get?"
Xu Cang thought about it and said, "It seems that there is no direct benefit."
The original bet of 10 million yuan with Qin Xin was now voided, so the most direct benefit was gone. Mainly because as time went by, Xu Cang felt that he should be able to get enough money to develop new drugs for his mother, so there was no need to take money from his wife.
Lu Jinghua glared: "Then why are you so concerned about it?"
"Don't you care about your wife's affairs?" Xu Cang shouted immediately, his voice was extremely powerful.
"Whose wife?"
A sentence floated in from somewhere , and Xu Cang almost didn't think about it, and just stiffened his neck: "Of course it's my wife."
As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Cang and Lu Jinghua quickly realized that this was a very familiar woman's voice, and then they turned to the door of the ward at the same time.
Just this one glance made Xu Cang's hair stand on end. He saw Qin Xin standing at the door at some point, staring at Xu Cang expressionlessly, with a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.
Lu Jinghua coughed twice: " Ms. Qin , um... um, I still have some things to do. Xu Cang, you should take care of yourself first, and we will contact each other later."
After saying this, he disappeared outside the ward without even giving Xu Cang a chance to speak.
Qin Xin's face was frosty as she walked in slowly. She sat gracefully beside the bed without saying a word, making Xu Cang feel uncomfortable all over.
"Ms. Qin...Ms. Qin, when did you come just now?" Xu Cang's face was full of embarrassment: "Um...where did you start listening?"
Qin Xin suddenly smiled, as if the ice had melted and the flowers were blooming in spring: "I listened to it from the beginning."
Xu Cang took a deep breath, feeling that Qin Xin's smile was mixed with some bone-chilling coldness: "Miss Qin, I was just joking with Brother Lu. Men like to brag, you don't have to mind it."
Qin Xin lowered her eyes slightly, as if she was thinking about something, and soon she swept away the cold aura from before, and stared at Xu Cang with burning eyes: "You just said that you want to abandon the aviation base and directly set up an airline. Are you sure you can get a quota?"
Seeing Qin Xin talking about serious matters, Xu Cang also put away his frivolous look and nodded heavily: "I am very confident, and I will get the results very quickly."
"What makes you say that?" Qin Xin asked seriously, "Before, you said that Erhai has made achievements, and then you let the Erhai government come forward to get a quota. How come it's so much earlier now? Are you going to make another deal?"
Because Shi Lingling had previously proposed that Xu Cang be grounded permanently in exchange for a spot in setting up an airline, Qin Xin was extremely sensitive to such matters. She didn't want Xu Cang to use methods that would damage her interests in exchange for a spot in setting up an airline.
Previously, Xu Cang told Qin Xin that the route was to achieve results at the Erhai Lake base. As long as the passenger load rate of the route went up, it would bring many tourists to Erhai Lake, which would be a huge attraction for Erhai City, which had a lot of money but was unable to develop.
As long as the Erhai Municipal Government understands the great role of the Erhai Base, it will definitely make great efforts in applying for the establishment of an airline. At the critical moment, Xu Cang was even willing to let the Erhai Municipal Government participate in the construction of the airline.
As for official matters, they should be handled by other official authorities. This was Xu Cang’s previous idea.
It must be said that Xu Cang is still very confident about this route. Because there are airlines in later generations that do this and then expand wildly. Of course, the final outcome is not very good.
Although the final outcome of the airline was not satisfactory, some of its methods can still be used as a reference.
"No, no." Xu Cang knew that Qin Xin had misunderstood, and hurriedly said, "If what happened today hadn't happened, I think we should have followed the previous plan. But now it's different. At the earliest, we may get a place in two months at most."
Qin Xin looked at Xu Cang doubtfully: "But, even if someone is willing to give up the quota, I don't have the money to buy it now."
In order to set up the Erhai base, Qin Xin almost gambled everything and had no extra funds. In the industry, a quota to set up an airline is still quite valuable.
"Tsk!" Xu Cang immediately started to show off: "Ms. Qin, how can we buy what we want? Others will give it to us for free."
"Give it away. Who would be so generous as to give away an airline quota for nothing?"
In front of Qin Xin, Xu Cang was like a child showing off his toys, and he almost raised his chin: "It's hard to say now, anyway, you just have to wait."
Qin Xin looked at Xu Cang deeply and asked, "Just now Lu Jinghua asked you why you were so concerned. I want to hear your truth."
“Hahahaha.” Xu Cang’s face turned red, but he still pretended to be indifferent: “Oh, I’m also very confused, why there is such a kind person like me in the world!”
Qin Xin was quite helpless about this kind of lying with open eyes. She could only button up Xu Cang's open clothes one by one, and pointed to the door at the same time: "The people from the bureau are outside, should we let them in?"
"When did they become so polite?" Xu Cang asked in surprise.
Qin Xin's eyes curved into crescents: "What are you saying? Well, get busy!"
After saying that, Qin Xin stood up and said, "I'll go call them in."
In fact, Xu Cang wanted to say that he would rather be with her than those annoying bureau personnel. However, in this situation, Xu Cang decided to restrain himself, otherwise it would be bad to let Qin Xin think that he was a playboy, and it would be a huge loss to scare his future wife.
"Well, thank you for the trouble." As he said that, Xu Cang gave Qin Xin a smile that he thought was handsome and sunny.
But this expression, coupled with his hospital gown, made the scene as funny as it could be. However, Qin Xin did not point it out, but lowered her head, suppressed her laughter, and left the ward.
After Qin Xin left, Xu Cang touched his face and said to himself, "There's nothing on my face."
Soon, while Xu Cang was puzzled, a middle-aged man in a white coat came into the ward with an awkward smile. Xu Cang raised his eyes and was stunned for a moment when he saw who it was. He asked uncertainly, "Have we met before?"
The bureau investigator sat on the chair that Lu Jinghua had pulled over earlier and said with a wry smile, "I was the one who talked to you about the 747 incident before."
"Oh, 9811, why does it look so familiar!" Xu Cang's memory is still very good. The investigation of the 9811 incident was conducted casually, and there was no serious investigation, but Xu Cang still remembered the appearance of the investigators.
The investigator said meaningfully: "Xu Cang, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."
Xu Cang was very familiar with this kind of bureau investigation. Not only was he not nervous, but he asked the investigator: "How are those people doing?"
"Those people?" The investigator was startled, but soon realized that Xu Cang was talking about the 23 meritorious pilots, and asked with great interest: "Do you still care about them?"
Twenty-three meritorious pilots jointly went to the Civil Aviation Administration of Wuhan to file a complaint against Xu Cang. This incident caused quite a stir, and almost everyone at the administration knew about it, and even some local management bureaus had heard of it.
Logically speaking, under such circumstances, Xu Cang should hate those 23 meritorious pilots to the core, so why is he still so concerned about them?
Xu Cang rolled his eyes. He was not a bodhisattva, so he didn't care about the lives of those people. What he cared about was the agreement between him and those people. If one more person died, he would have one less person to take advantage of.
However, the investigator did not hide the fact: "Except for teacher Wang Baotian whose condition is slightly more serious, the others are relatively optimistic."
"Wang Baotian?" Xu Cang was startled, and quickly asked a question that seemed off topic: "Wang Baotian's title of Meritorious Pilot was applied for by Rongcheng Airlines, right?"
Xu Cang had done some research on Wang Baotian before. Although he retired from Shandong Airlines, he joined Shandong Airlines just before retirement. His title of meritorious pilot was applied for by his former company, Rongcheng Airlines.
The bureau investigator obviously didn't expect Xu Cang to ask about Wang Baotian's background, which seemed a bit off topic. However, perhaps considering that they might meet again in the future, the investigator did not scold Xu Cang, but nodded instead: "According to me, yes. Why are you asking this?"
Xu Cang continued to ask: "If the relevant personnel are to be stripped of their title of Meritorious Pilot, should the airline that applied for it propose the revocation?"
The bureau investigator finally understood what was going on: "What do you mean?"
"No way." Xu Cang did not say anything more about Wang Baotian, but just laughed: "What's the point of a small person like me?"
"You are a nobody?" The bureau investigator laughed. "Let's not talk about anything else. Just talking about causing trouble, you are definitely a big shot. Okay, let's talk business. Let's not talk about other things for now. I heard you mention on the control frequency that you heard the sound of the drive shaft of the No. 1 engine breaking. Is that true?"
Xu Cang said this when he was blasting Li Rongxian on the radio. He didn't deny it, but he didn't admit it either. Instead, he asked, "Can I ask, if there is a problem with the engine of the Airbus 320, what will the authorities do?"
The bureau investigator sneered: "Of course, the airworthiness certificate of this model will be temporarily revoked!"
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The next morning, after all the tests were done and Xu Cang was confirmed to be fine, he was packing up to be discharged from the hospital. As he still had to cooperate with the bureau's investigation, he could not leave Qizhou City for the time being. However, it didn't matter, he still needed to do something here.
Last night Qin Xin bought Xu Cang a complete set of spare clothes. After Xu Cang put them on, he felt as if he was living with Qin Xin in the future. He felt refreshed.
Just when Xu Cang was about to finish packing, there were sudden hurried footsteps outside the door, and then Li Rongxian rushed in in a hurry.
After entering the room, Li Rongxian rushed over as soon as he saw Xu Cang. However, Xu Cang raised his hand to stop Li Rongxian: "You'd better stand two steps away from me, otherwise it will bother me."
Xu Cang really hated Li Rongxian to the core. Even if he got a little closer to him, he would feel physically uncomfortable because they were breathing the same air.
Li Rongxian's face suddenly turned red, but he really stopped two steps away from Xu Cang, not daring to move forward at all.
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows, realizing that this man was about to carve panic and anxiety into his forehead, so he said disdainfully: "What are you doing here?"
If it was a visit to a sick patient, Xu Cang would rather let this person leave. Let Li Rongxian visit him, and he would find out what was wrong with him even if he was not sick.
"Mr. Xu, I heard that CAAC came to see you yesterday?" Li Rongxian asked hurriedly.
Xu Cang frowned: "After such a big incident, isn't it normal for the bureau to come to me?"
"I mean, did you mention the problem with our Airbus aircraft when you were talking to your department?" Li Rongxian wanted to get closer to Xu Cang, but he felt uncomfortable because of Xu Cang's warning: "It's... it's like the engine drive shaft issue that Mr. Xu mentioned before."
Not long ago, CAAC directly contacted Airbus headquarters and asked them to send a representative of sufficient weight. This move has a very obvious meaning. How could Li Rongxian not know this after being in the industry for so many years?
If only technical assistance is needed for the incident investigation, the local civil aviation administration will usually not explicitly require the aircraft designer and manufacturer to send someone to make a personal visit.
Li Rongxian had a very strong feeling that CAAC seemed to be grounding the Airbus 320.
This is not a random guess. After the 9811 incident not long ago, CAAC temporarily suspended the airworthiness certificate of the relevant aircraft model due to the inherent design defect of the S2 switch in the cargo hold of the 747. Later, the civil aviation authorities of other countries also began to follow suit, causing many airlines with 747 to want to kill Boeing.
Because the 747 was grounded due to its own design flaws, Boeing had to pay compensation for it, which was really a huge loss. However, the flaws of the S2 switch were clear and obvious, and the remedial measures were relatively simple. At the same time, it was recognized by various civil aviation authorities, and it did not cause much subsequent losses in the later period.
But the problem with the Airbus 320 this time is much more serious than the S2 switch of the 747. Although the final report has not yet come out, Li Rongxian really has a very bad premonition.
Moreover, the perception ability of a person like Xu Cang is so accurate. If someone else mentioned that they could tell the transmission shaft was broken by hearing, Li Rongxian would just think that person had a problem with his brain, but when it came to Xu Cang, he had to seriously examine this issue.
After all, just yesterday, Xu Cang's earth-shattering no-radius turn had made Li Rongxian put aside all his pride.
Moreover, the problem now is that CAAC seems to believe Xu Cang's words and actually began to consider grounding the Airbus 320. It is important to know that Airbus aircraft have only been in the Asia-Pacific region for a short time. If it is hit hard by this, the impact will be far-reaching.
As soon as Li Rongxian said this, Xu Cang knew the purpose of this person's visit. He shrugged and said, "This is part of the bureau's investigation. I can't reveal it before the official report is released, especially to an outsider like you!"
Xu Cang placed particular emphasis on the word "outsider".
Li Rongxian knew that Xu Cang was mocking him, but he did not dare to fight back. He just pleaded, "Mr. Xu, the plane is still in the sea. I think it is not convenient for you to say something that has not been confirmed."
Yes, the plane No. 9451 has sunk into the sea. However, the plane must be salvaged, it just takes some time.
Li Rongxian hoped that Xu Cang would say less about Airbus during the period before the plane was salvaged, so as to avoid public opinion fermentation and give Airbus enough time for public relations. After all, as an eyewitness of the 9451 accident, some of Xu Cang's words carry weight.
Of course, Li Rongxian also felt the weight of Xu Cang's words. CAAC notified Airbus headquarters the next day after talking with Xu Cang. The weight of his words was indeed too heavy.
"I'm just talking about what I saw and heard." Xu Cang picked up his package and prepared to go out.
However, Li Rongxian hurriedly shouted: "Mr. Xu, as long as you are willing to remain silent about the contents related to the plane before the plane is salvaged, we will thank you very much."
The meaning of this sentence is quite clear. It can be seen that Li Rongxian is really anxious.
However, Xu Cang was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li Rongxian and sneered: "Are you testing me?"
After saying that, he was about to go out. As a result, Li Rongxian was the first to shout towards the door: "Lisa, Mr. Xu has worked hard, you drive my car to take him home."
As soon as he finished speaking, a blonde, blue-eyed, and extremely hot woman entered the ward. Li Rongxian threw a car key to the woman and said to Xu Cang, "Mr. Xu just came back from the brink of death yesterday, so he shouldn't work hard recently. Lisa will take care of Mr. Xu in the near future. My car is barely presentable, so if Mr. Xu likes it, it will be his in the future."
Xu Cang glanced at the woman, especially the button on her chest that was about to burst, which was really shocking. Xu Cang felt dizzy and felt unwell.
Li Rongxian walked over with a smile: "Mr. Xu, isn't it just about saying less? I'm not asking you to lie. It shouldn't be that difficult, right? It's just a small matter. As long as we cooperate, it will benefit both you and me. We will have more rewards later. I can guarantee this. What do you think, Mr. Xu?"
However, Xu Cang slapped Li Rongxian on the shoulder: "Is this how you test me?"
