Chapter 183: The Embers of the Remaining Fire!

In the small conference room on the first floor of the Erhai Base, Yi Feng, Qin Xin and Si Linglong sat in this small conference room and continued the previous ARJ21 leasing process.
Looking at the mottled wall, Yi Feng sighed: "You guys really don't look like an airline at all."
"The new base is already under construction, on the open space downhill." Almost all the big shots who came here would sigh. Although Qin Xin didn't care much, he still felt a little annoyed after seeing it so many times.
Yi Feng withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, hummed, and finally stopped talking about the decoration here. Instead, he glanced at Si Linglong: "Some time ago, I heard from the cabin department that you resigned. I didn't expect you to come here. What's the matter? Is there something at Guoda that makes you feel uncomfortable?"
Si Linglong seems to have a very good relationship with Yi Feng in private, which is understandable. The biggest barrier between people has never been type, region, or language, but class. People of the same class naturally have a certain degree of closeness. Si Linglong and Yi Feng obviously knew each other for a long time.
Si Linglong smiled and said, "Brother Feng, some people from Guoda Airlines know my identity and they hang around me every day. It's annoying, so I came here."
"Then you should have told me instead of resigning without saying a word." Yi Feng showed a hint of displeasure.
"The relationships at Guoda Airlines are complicated, so I won't cause you any trouble." Si Linglong said with a smile.
Due to its special status, Guoda Airlines has attracted a large number of people with special backgrounds. For example, it is best not to touch the beautiful flight attendants there, because they may be the mistress of the company leader. And those flight attendants who are not beautiful or even ugly should not be touched, because these people have real powerful people in their families.
Si Linglong could still do whatever she wanted in Muhua Airlines, but in Guoda Airlines, even Si Linglong had to be cautious. She was clear-headed and didn't want to involve Yi Feng, which was a wise choice.
Yi Feng pondered for a moment, and didn't say anything bold or anything like "I'll support you", which basically meant he agreed with Si Linglong's words. There was no way, Guoda Airlines, under the emperor's feet, was just so complicated.
"Come over here, does your grandfather know?" Yi Feng didn't want to continue the topic that made him unhappy, so he changed to a relatively lighter one.
"Muhua's 737 was rented by Xu Cang and Grandpa. Of course he knows I'm here."
Yi Feng's eyes narrowed: "Grandpa even came here specially? It seems that it's not just about the plane. Linglong, you have grown up, and the old man is getting anxious."
After these words were spoken, Qin Xin, who had been silent, raised his eyebrows and looked at Si Linglong, whose face was flushed, with a strange expression, as if thinking about something.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Yi Feng didn't want Si Linglong to be too embarrassed, so he just stopped briefly and turned to Qin Xin: "Miss Qin, let's be honest. If you really have Muhua Airlines as a fallback, I don't think Xu Cang would mention the ARJ21 lease to us first, so can you speak frankly? Xu Cang is a very smart person, and everything he does is purposeful. Why didn't he choose Muhua Airlines, but us?"
Although Yi Feng was young, he had a very thorough understanding of things and understood everything at once. However, his tone made the atmosphere in the room seem a little cold and hard, and it seemed that Yi Feng was quite serious.
As a result, Si Linglong shut up obediently, and she had no right to interrupt the following content.
Qin Xin sat up straighter. She was not the least bit timid in front of Yi Feng. "You are right. Muhua Airlines is indeed not a good choice. Xu Cang has leased a 737 from the chairman of the company because of some special relationship. It is already the limit. There will not be any significant discount for the subsequent ARJ21 lease."
Before, Qin Xin's words about Si Linglong were of course a joke, but now she was speaking from the heart. Xu Cang or the entire Erhai Base did not have a deep relationship with Muhua Airlines. The convenience provided by Muhua Airlines was just an appropriate emotional investment based on their optimism about Xu Cang's future.
What I mean is, I think you may have a good future, and I don't want to be enemies with you, so I will show some sincerity that is insignificant to me, such as agreeing to recruit at the Erhai base at Muhua Airlines headquarters, or agreeing to lease a 737.
These measures do not represent any substantial cost to Muhua Airlines, but are simply a small price to pay to prevent the possibility of certain future inconveniences.
However, Muhua Airlines is not optimistic about Xu Cang! The future has too many uncertainties, and there is no need to invest too much for some low-probability things.
As long as there is no enmity with Xu Cang, there is no need to maintain an overly close relationship. This is the attitude of Muhua Airlines.
Qin Xin sees this problem clearly, so she remains pessimistic about whether Muhua Airlines will give preferential treatment on the ARJ21 lease issue.
In fact, whether it is Muhua Airlines' ten ARJ21s or Guoda Airlines' twenty ARJ21s, they are the same for the current Erhai base and cannot be rented.
Just as Qin Xin had just said, the Erhai base could only handle the leasing of five ARJ21s at most. However, it was obvious that Xu Cang wanted more, so he had to resort to other means.
"So, what do you mean? We don't have the money to rent our company's planes, and we are not optimistic about the prospect of renting planes from Muhua Airlines. Isn't this a completely unfeasible project? Is Xu Cang playing a trick on me?" Yi Feng was a little unhappy. After hearing what Xu Cang said, he had been thinking about this for days and nights, and he even came all the way from Hanjing, but in the end he got this answer?
Just as Yi Feng's voice fell, a slim figure suddenly appeared outside the door. It turned out to be Lu Xiaoxiao from Shanhang.
Not long ago, Xu Cang made a special call to Lu Xiaoxiao and asked her to help do a market analysis on the ARJ21's operation of provincial routes. Xu Cang originally thought that he would need to spend some time talking, but unexpectedly, Lu Xiaoxiao agreed very straightforwardly.
After that, Xu Cang asked Deng Wenjia for help. Using his personal connections, Deng Wenjia persuaded Lu Xiaoxiao's leader to grant her a temporary long vacation. Then, Lu Xiaoxiao came directly to Erhai Lake to collect data for market analysis.
Lu Xiaoxiao entered the small conference room and placed a thick document in front of Yi Feng. She said seriously, "This is the market analysis of the ARJ21 operation in the province. If you take a look at it, you may change your mind."
Yi Feng glanced at Lu Xiaoxiao, then at Qin Xin, and finally patiently picked up the market analysis made by Lu Xiaoxiao.
At the beginning, Yi Feng was somewhat dismissive, because market analysis was his professional field. In his eyes, many market analyses done by others were like waste paper, full of mistakes and omissions, which was simply torture.
However, as time went on, Yi Feng gradually stopped his contempt, and he suddenly discovered that this market analysis was unexpectedly good.
Qin Xin was not in a hurry either. She just waited quietly for Yi Feng to finish reading the market analysis.
After more than half an hour, Yi Feng finally put down the market analysis text. He couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't seen such a beautiful market analysis for a long time. It's much better than what my subordinates did. It is said that the mountain is not high, but the immortals are famous. Although your place is a little simple, it is really full of talents."
"Mr. Yi, thank you for your compliment, but she is not an employee here. She is just here to help."
"Hmm?" Yi Feng looked at Lu Xiaoxiao curiously: "Where do you work now? A professional third-party market analysis company?"
Lu Xiaoxiao found a seat and sat down: "No! To be precise, I am here to help Xu Cang. Have you read it carefully? Do you think the prospect of ARJ21 operating intra-provincial routes has changed now?"
"Hahaha! There is some improvement. In your market analysis, this will indeed be a good profit point. Of course, it's just good. The ticket price you set is too low. This is a bottleneck that you can't break through. The most important thing is that you can't raise the price, otherwise you will lose your greatest competitiveness." Yi Feng saw it clearly: "Intra-provincial routes... This profit point alone can probably support your growth to the level of a medium-sized airline. If you don't have new growth points, this is your ceiling. In fact, this is also normal. We have already verified that ARJ21 can operate short-haul feeder flights. There are profit points only on certain specific routes, and the public's acceptance of this aircraft is still not very high."
Changing the subject, Yi Feng smiled and said, "However, Xu Cang's ability to turn losses into profits from this old market model is a big breakthrough. Of course, this is all."
"That's all. I feel like you didn't read my analysis carefully." Lu Xiaoxiao said, "Before, I conducted a special market research on the tolerance of air ticket prices. The pricing strategy of no more than 300 yuan is actually not the upper limit. From the information I have investigated, 400 yuan per ticket is the upper limit of the air ticket price that most people in this area can accept. But why is it still priced at 300 yuan instead of 400 yuan? If the average price is set at 400 yuan, the profit will increase. Why not do this?"
Yi Feng instinctively sensed a problem: "What do you mean?"
Qin Xin smiled and said, "Those contents are our business secrets, so it's hard to tell Mr. Yi. However, I can assure you that our profit margin is twice as large as described in the market analysis in your hand."
"Ms. Qin, just based on your words, the profit margin will be doubled. There is no such thing in the world, right?" Although Yi Feng said this, he felt as uncomfortable as if he was being scratched by a cat's claws in his heart. He urgently wanted to know what the profit strategy here was.
Qin Xin sighed, "Boss Yi, I just told you that we don't have the money to buy 20 ARJ21s. But why did Xu Cang propose such a cooperation? Because he wanted to do it, and he was very eager. In fact, we can take steady steps instead of taking such a risk and buying 20 ARJ21s directly. The domestic market is huge, and you are only looking at the mid-to-high-end market and can't lower your status. However, those markets that you don't value are enough to feed us well."
"Then why are you doing this?" Just from this market analysis, Yi Feng could tell that there was not just one concept for operating the sinking market, but a more systematic business strategy.
As Qin Xin said, domestic airlines now have huge strategic inertia, and psychologically dare not lower their brand standards to cater to the sinking market. Therefore, for a long time, the sinking market will be a blue ocean for Xu Cang and others.
As long as you proceed step by step, the prospects will be good and there will not be much risk.
But even though there was a bright future ahead, Xu Cang still chose to take the risk. Twenty ARJ21s was a huge gamble for this new airline.
Although Lu Xiaoxiao's market analysis was very good, there is still a chance that unexpected situations will occur. If the operation of these 20 ARJ21s fails, it will be a dead end with no chance of recovery.
If we only lease five aircraft, although the profit growth will be slower, the advantage is that the ship is small and easier to turn around. If things go well, we can accumulate experience, and if something unexpected happens, we can stop the loss in time.
This time I am the best choice!
However, no matter from his words or expression, Yi Feng could feel that he wanted to eat up twenty ARJ21s in one bite. He really couldn't understand why he should take such an arbitrary risk.
Qin Xin smiled, and there was a hint of doting in her smile: "Because Xu Cang wants to buy something. That thing is very expensive, very expensive. If we operate stably, within seven years, the wealth we have accumulated will not be able to meet Xu Cang's requirements. Mr. Yi, we don't have the money to lease these 20 ARJ21s, we only have shares. If Mr. Yi doesn't mind, we are willing to let Guoda Airlines join us in the form of aircraft shares."
"You are just trying to get something for nothing! Your shares are worth nothing now! No, the value of those 20 ARJ21s is more than your entire net worth now." Yi Feng's expression suddenly darkened. This was clearly a gamble on the future of the Erhai base.
If this place can take off in the future, then these shares will be worth infinite value. But if this place does not grow, then the investment in these 20 ARJ21s will be a total loss.
However, if it only grows into a medium-sized airline, the profit is not much. But if what Qin Xin said is true, their actual profit margin is twice as large as the market analysis, then this aircraft investment will be very promising.
"Miss Qin, you really gave me a difficult question." Yi Feng did not refuse immediately, which actually meant a lot. However, he changed the subject and his expression became extremely solemn: "But compared to this question, I want to know more about what Xu Cang wants to buy! Seven years, why is there a limit of seven years, what does it mean!?"

At this moment in the cockpit of British Airways Flight 1009, sweat had begun to seep out of the captain's forehead. He wiped his face with his right hand, and his palm was full of wet sweat.
"Captain, is there a speed problem?" At this time, the co-pilot also realized the problem. The speed of the aircraft was increasing slowly and continuously while the thrust and aircraft attitude remained unchanged, which was obviously abnormal.
In fact, even if the thrust and attitude remain unchanged, it is understandable that the aircraft's airspeed fluctuates because the external airflow cannot be absolutely uniform. However, it is absolutely impossible for the aircraft to increase slowly and continuously.
The strange thing is that the increase in the speed of the aircraft is a linear and uniform increase in speed. If it is affected by airflow, even if the speed of the aircraft increases, it is likely to appear to be sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
However, it does not mean that the continuous increase in the speed of such aircraft is necessarily abnormal, it is just a matter of probability. In actual flight operations, unintentional speeding phenomena occasionally occur.
This situation usually occurs when turning, especially at a large angle. Because at high altitudes, the wind speed outside the aircraft is usually quite high. If the aircraft makes a large angle turn, the wind direction it faces will change greatly in a short period of time.
For example, the wind may change from a tailwind to a headwind, with wind speed changes of more than ten knots. In this way, under the influence of such external wind speed changes, the indicated airspeed of the aircraft will increase greatly for a short period of time while the thrust and attitude remain unchanged, resulting in overspeeding if the crew is not careful.
It was based on this idea that when the captain realized that the aircraft's airspeed was increasing strangely, he first checked whether there were any sudden and huge changes in the wind direction and speed outside. The aircraft's integrated electronic display screen shows real-time changes in wind direction and speed, which can be seen at a glance.
If it's just the wind, then the situation is easier to handle. Leave enough space to prevent the plane from exceeding the speed limit, and don't worry about the rest.
Such dramatic changes in wind speed don't usually last long and should settle down soon.
However, the wind information the captain saw just now showed that the outside wind was very stable, which was a very bad sign. Obviously, the co-pilot also thought of this.
It was precisely because he understood the situation that the co-pilot's already panicked state of mind became completely unbearable.
The captain swallowed his saliva, glanced at the two CDUs whose screens had been turned off, and the muscles in his left hand holding the steering wheel began to twitch unconsciously.
"Forget about the flight management computer for now, take a look at the airspeed on the standby instrument!" After a brief assessment, the captain still felt that it was more urgent to deal with the airspeed issue.
During this period of hesitation, the aircraft's Mach number had increased from .72 to .74.
"Oh oh oh!" The co-pilot was completely dependent on the captain's command at this time. He quickly lowered his head to look at the backup mechanical instrument: "Captain, there is no Mach display on the backup instrument!"
"You've lost your mind. When did the standby instrument ever show a Mach number? You just reported the indicated airspeed!" It can be seen that the co-pilot was really panicked and could say such unprofessional words.
Generally speaking, the accuracy of the indicated airspeed drops to a relatively low level after the aircraft exceeds 26,000 feet. Above this altitude, the crew habitually uses the Mach number to indicate the aircraft's speed.
However, due to technical reasons, the mechanical standby instrument is unable to display the aircraft's Mach number at high altitudes and can only always display a relatively inaccurate indicated airspeed.
Logically speaking, this should be an extremely basic knowledge point, but the co-pilot got it wrong in a panic.
The co-pilot wiped his chin with the back of his hand to hide his embarrassment. Soon, he reported a number, 298 knots! However, the captain saw that the indicated airspeed on the PFD had exceeded 310 knots. The difference between the two was quite large, and the most fatal thing was that the airspeed indication on the PFD continued to increase, and the difference would continue to increase over time.
The captain's left hand fingers kept shaking, revealing his extreme anxiety. The situation of the plane was now sliding towards an unimaginable and uncontrollable state.
"Well, let's deal with the unreliable airspeed first. Continue with the checklist and proceed from the point where we cannot determine a reliable airspeed data source." the captain shouted.
"Okay!" The co-pilot was still looking for the checklist related to the FMC failure, and now he started to flip back, looking for the checklist for unreliable airspeed.
During this period, the problems ranged from "Indicated airspeed inconsistent or unreliable" to "Unplanned stabilizer trim" to "FMC left/right failure" and then back to "Indicated airspeed inconsistent or unreliable".
The first officer felt like he was either reading the checklist or looking for it. Even if it was a simulated fault training, there wouldn't be such a complex overlay.
He remembered clearly that neither the training syllabus of the airline nor the training recommendations of Boeing headquarters allowed the superposition of projects, which means that two completely unrelated faults could not be combined together.
According to Boeing's philosophy, Boeing aircraft are very safe. The probability of a combined failure is very, very small, and there is no need for training.
Previously, he regarded this concept of Boeing as a guiding principle. If a Boeing aircraft could have two different system , it meant that the aircraft was not working, so that kind of superimposed combination failure training was a waste of time.
But now, if he could meet the senior executives of Boeing, he would point at that person's nose and curse, what kind of crappy plane is that?
Precisely because he had not received any training on superimposed failures, the co-pilot had obviously reached the limit of the stress he could withstand and began to make some unnecessary low-level mistakes.
Fortunately, he had looked through the checklist for "Indicated airspeed inconsistent or unreliable airspeed" once before, so after spending a short while, he finally found the checklist.
"No...cannot determine reliable airspeed data source, maintain normal thrust and attitude for this phase of flight, refer to flight chart for unreliable airspeeds."
The captain's heart was pounding as he looked at the airspeed that was about to reach the lower end of the red and black speed band. After the co-pilot finished reading it, he took a full two seconds to react and finally woke up: "Check the table and see what the attitude and thrust should be set at the current altitude."
Since the aircraft's airspeed is no longer reliable, the only way to maintain a normal level flight is to rely on appropriate attitude and thrust.
"Check...check the table?" The co-pilot's lips were trembling and his face was full of confusion.
The captain was now concentrating almost all his attention on airspeed, and only tilted his head slightly. "Yes, the flight chart for unreliable airspeed is in the...flight performance section."
"Oh oh oh." The co-pilot suddenly realized something and quickly turned to the end of the checklist, still muttering: "Performance, performance."
However, the co-pilot was on the verge of collapse, as his right hand had begun to tremble, from being calmly looking through the checklist at the beginning.
He finally turned to the chapter on flight performance, but as soon as he saw the index in the performance chapter, he immediately began to feel dizzy.
He couldn't understand the index to the chapter on flight performance!
That's right, it had been more than five months since he last looked through this chapter, and last time he only looked through the brake cooling chart. In other words, since the beginning of his career, he seemed to have only looked through the unreliable airspeed flight chart once, and that was in a leisurely, relaxed, and time-free situation.
In this situation, how could he remember how he looked for it before?
Snap!
A drop of sweat from the co-pilot fell on the paper of the checklist, and the nervous captain actually caught the movement. The captain just quickly glanced at the co-pilot, and seeing that he did not move, he hurriedly reminded him: "Looking, what are you doing?"
Just as the captain was urging, the controller's voice suddenly rang over the radio: "British Airways 1009, your current position is about to deviate three nautical miles to the right of the route."
"Jesus Christ!" The captain gritted his teeth. At this juncture, the aircraft navigation had problems again. There was no other way. Now both flight management computers had failed. They could only fly using traditional instruments. Or, to be more precise, they could only maintain a heading.
However, the existence of crosswinds kept blowing the plane off the planned route. Originally, in the captain's plan, even if there was wind, it would take a long time to blow them away from the three nautical miles. After the control contacted the airport for confirmation, they began to return under the guidance of radar.
However, man proposes, God disposes. The impact of the crosswind was much stronger than he expected. It had only been a short while, and the plane was about to go three nautical miles off course.
"Jakarta, there is a response from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, can we return?" The captain was concerned about this first. By now, he had completely lost the confidence to continue flying. He didn't care about the time limit or not, he just wanted to get back to the ground.
"Wait a moment, our application has been sent." The controller said: "British Airways 1009, since you have a navigation problem, please apply for a heading, but you can only fly west."
"Then let's take heading 270." The captain casually said a heading.
"British Airways 1009, heading 270, approved!" Jakarta controller added, "British Airways 1009, do you plan to declare a state of emergency?"
The captain, who was already in a state of panic, was furious when he heard what the controller said: "No need! Just let me return, as soon as possible, as soon as possible!"
Perhaps he didn’t expect the captain’s reaction to be so intense. The controller was also a little frightened and quickly said, “I know, I know! Wait a minute!”
At this moment, the captain, who was gradually becoming irritable, saw that the co-pilot had not found it yet, and immediately cursed: "Can you find it or not?"
"Almost there, almost there!" The co-pilot was sweating profusely. He no longer studied the index temporarily. Since he couldn't understand it, he didn't read it anymore. He just started from the beginning of the chapter and flipped back page by page.
Fortunately, the flight performance chapter is just a separate chapter, and the content is not that much. Although this is a bit stupid, it is at least a feasible solution.
However, from maximum climb EPR to reference speed, from normal configuration distance table to non-normal configuration landing distance table, from maximum continuous EPR with one engine inoperative, drift down speed/level off speed, long-range cruise altitude capability, long-range cruise control to long-range cruise diversion fuel time, followed by two other conditions with landing gear down and landing gear down plus one engine inoperative.
The co-pilot was almost at the end of the turn, beads of sweat were forming on his face, but he couldn't find the flight chart with the unreliable airspeed.
The captain could no longer wait. He held the steering wheel with his left hand, removed his right hand from the thrust handle, and stretched it toward the co-pilot: "Give it to me, I'll find it!"
The co-pilot was about to put the checklist on the captain's right hand, but before he could take any action, the speeding warning beeped.
The captain retracted his right hand like a conditioned reflex, and his first thought was to reduce the throttle. However, at the moment when this thought came into his mind, he realized that the airspeed was unreliable at the moment, and the overspeed warning might be false.
However, the airspeed indicators on both PFDs showed that the aircraft's speed had indeed reached the red and black speed band.
Although it is highly likely that the airspeeds on the two PFDs are wrong, it is assumed that the overspeed warning is also a false warning and can be ignored. But what if the airspeed on the PFD is actually correct? What if the aircraft is indeed overspeeding?
Of course, short-term and small-scale overspeeding usually does not cause excessive structural damage. But you have to know that the speed of the aircraft is still increasing. If it exceeds too much, who knows what will happen?
So the captain lowered his head and checked the speed on the standby instrument. At this moment, the aircraft speed on the standby instrument had reached 320 knots, which was actually close to the maximum speed.
"Captain, are you going to ignore the speeding warning?" The co-pilot felt annoyed and scared when he heard the speeding warning.
The captain was also very confused at the moment. This was the situation he feared the most. Not being able to determine the correct airspeed data was something that no pilot would want to face. This was more difficult than any operational failure.
However, the speed on the PFD has exceeded the speed limit, and the speed on the standby instrument is also too fast. No matter which speed is correct, the aircraft is now facing or is about to face the danger of speeding, so appropriate deceleration is definitely a necessary requirement.
However, since the co-pilot could not find out the thrust and attitude settings in this situation, the captain's action of slowing down was actually somewhat risky.
However, the captain still planned to do something. When people are anxious, they always tend to do something, even if they know it may not be right.
So, while maintaining the aircraft's attitude, the captain slightly reduced the throttle, a very small amount indeed. This shows that the captain is still somewhat rational. His idea is not radical, as long as the airspeed is slightly reduced, and if it doesn't work, it can be tolerated if the speed does not increase any more.
I don’t know if the captain’s response worked, but the speed on both the PFD and the standby instrument seemed to have stopped. Although the speed warning was still ringing, the captain was overjoyed when he saw this change: “That’s it, that’s it!”
Logically, the captain should have handed the plane over to the co-pilot at this time, and asked him to find the flight chart of the unreliable airspeed. However, at this moment, the captain no longer trusted the co-pilot. At least from the current point of view, the failure was not solved, but the status quo was maintained.
Therefore, the captain thought for a moment and wondered if he could put aside the airspeed problem, which he thought he had temporarily controlled, and try to resolve the problem with the flight management computer first.
However, the captain no longer expected the co-pilot to find the checklist on his own. He began to instruct the co-pilot directly: "Put the landing switch in manual position and reset the altitude of Soekarno-Hatta Airport."
The co-pilot didn't understand what the captain was saying at first, but he had one advantage, which was obedience. He knew he didn't understand, so he just followed the captain's instructions.
So the co-pilot immediately reset the landing altitude switch. Then the captain pointed to the center wing fuel tank switch and said, "Both are off."
The co-pilot didn't even think twice and immediately closed all the center wing fuel tanks. But after doing this, the co-pilot hesitated and asked, "Captain, do you want to do the checklist for the 'Central Fuel Override'?"
"No!" the captain almost yelled. At this moment, the co-pilot was not only unable to help, but was also holding him back and creating difficulties.
Soon, the captain felt that the aircraft was relatively stable, so he handed the plane over to the co-pilot. He had to free his hands to find the flight chart of the unreliable airspeed.
Fortunately, the captain's judgment was correct. At this moment, the airflow around the aircraft was relatively stable, and the co-pilot only needed a very small input to maintain the stability of the aircraft.
After the co-pilot took over the controls, the captain did not take his left hand off the steering wheel. He placed the checklist on his knees and used only his right hand to look through it.
However, the captain saw that the co-pilot seemed to be able to keep the plane in place, so he distracted his attention and tried to find the chart as soon as possible. At that moment, the plane might have encountered turbulence, and it suddenly rushed upward, scaring the captain and shouting, "I'm in control!"
Then, the captain took control without waiting for the co-pilot to hand over the controls.
After waiting for a while, the plane finally stabilized. The captain directly handed the checklist to the co-pilot. He really didn't dare to hand over the plane.
"Look for it again. It's in the flight performance chapter. You can't find it by flipping through the pages?" the captain shouted.
In fact, the captain himself was not very familiar with the chart. The main reason was that he had not done much training on the unreliable airspeed subject. This subject was too complicated and there were many unclear points. Therefore, during training, this controversial subject was avoided as much as possible. As a result, the captain himself was not very clear about where the chart was.
Less than ten seconds after the captain took over the control of the plane and it stabilized, the plane suddenly rushed forward without any warning. This turbulence was very strange. It lasted only for a moment, and the plane stopped immediately after the turbulence.
The captain was thinking of the unreliable airspeed flight chart in his mind and was not paying much attention to the continuous upward surge of the aircraft. He simply thought it was a problem of turbulent airflow.
While he was busy in the cockpit, Xu Cang looked at the hair on his arms that stood up for no reason, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Suddenly, a passenger in the first-class cabin behind Xu Cang pressed the bell to call the crew. For the first-class cabin service, it was absolutely on call. Almost at the moment when the bell stopped, the chief steward came out from the front cabin workroom.
The purser came over, turned off the call bell, and asked gently, "Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Is there any strange smell on your plane? Can't you clean it properly? I have smelled some strange smell since ten minutes ago, or did you load some living creature in the cargo hold?" This first-class passenger was quite polite and spoke courteously.
Because the cargo hold and the passenger cabin are connected, most of the time due to the pressure difference, the gas in the cargo hold will not flow into the passenger cabin. However, in some cases, some strange smells in the cargo hold will be discharged into the passenger cabin through the air conditioning system, especially when living things are loaded in the cargo hold.
The purser sniffed and didn't seem to smell anything, so he replied softly, "Sir, as far as I know, we didn't carry any living creatures this time."
"But this smell is really weird, it's getting stronger."
The flight attendant thought for a moment and said, "Sir, shall I go ask the cockpit to confirm?"
Generally speaking, if the plane is transporting living things, the cargo personnel will have a special captain's notice to the crew.
"Well, go and respond." This man was easy to talk to and did not make things difficult for the flight .
"Sir, it could be high-altitude ozone." The flight attendant suddenly thought of a possibility: "Sometimes, we can smell a special smell when we are on a flight, a bit like a fishy smell, that is the smell of ozone. We are flying at a relatively high altitude now, and sometimes we can smell ozone, especially when there is a thunderstorm nearby. Before we took off today, I saw that the weather didn't seem to be very good, maybe this is the reason."
The ozone content is relatively high in high-altitude environments, so it is understandable that ozone enters the cabin through the bleed air system. As for thunderstorm environments, it is because in thunderstorms, lightning will ionize oxygen, thus forming more ozone.
What the flight attendant said is actually correct, but it is not known whether it is applicable now.
The passenger was obviously persuaded by the purser and said to himself, "Ozone? But, it doesn't seem like the smell I smell is fishy."
"If it's not fishy, ​​then what is it?" The flight attendant was stunned.
The passenger himself couldn't figure it out: "I can't explain it clearly. Anyway, you can ask the cockpit to see if it's because of the cargo hold."
"Okay!" The chief steward said nothing more and returned to the front cabin workroom as instructed.
However, Xu Cang heard these words. He sniffed hard and after careful listening, he could indeed smell a faint pungent odor.
In fact, he didn't know what this smell was, it was too strange, as if he had never smelled it before. However, as a pilot, Xu Cang was familiar with the smell of ozone, and this was definitely not the smell of ozone.
"What's going on? What's going on?" Xu Cang became more and more uneasy, even he couldn't tell what exactly made him feel uneasy.
Suddenly, Xu Cang's whole body trembled, and then his body froze like a sculpture. Faintly, he seemed to hear a little strange noise.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
It sounded like the beating of a drum, like breathing, and it seemed to coincide with Xu Cang's heartbeat.
"What is this? Is it my illusion?" The voice was so small that Xu Cang was not sure if he had heard it wrong.
Suddenly, the plane bumped, which was a normal experience when encountering air currents during flight. But Xu Cang's face turned pale in an instant, because the bumping of the plane just now seemed to coincide with some strange frequency he had heard.
"No, no, I didn't hear it wrong!" Xu Cang looked back suddenly. The sound came from behind the plane.
Leo noticed Xu Cang's actions and asked curiously, "Mr. Xu, what's wrong with you?"
Xu Cang made a gesture to keep quiet, tilted his ear and listened to the subtle sound.
At this time, even Song Xinyang, who was standing next to him, noticed Xu Cang's strange behavior. However, after seeing Xu Cang's silence, he tactfully kept silent.
Boom!
After waiting for a while, the sound appeared again. And as if in response to the sound, the plane shook again. At this moment, Xu Cang took a breath of cold air, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Damn it, the engine is surging!"
At this moment, Xu Cang no longer hesitated. His intuition was correct, something had indeed happened. Moreover, what made Xu Cang even more worried was that when he noticed the engine surge, he also noticed that the sound of the engine running did not decrease at all, which meant that there was no throttle action in the cockpit, which was obviously not in line with the handling procedures for engine surge.
Xu Cang immediately turned to Leo: "Take me into the cockpit!"
Leo didn't expect Xu Cang to ask to enter the cockpit at this time. He was a little nervous for a moment, and he could see that Xu Cang's expression was not right. As a result, as if infected by Xu Cang, Leo also became flustered: "Now?"
"That's right, now, hurry!" Xu Cang growled.
He originally thought that handling this air crash would be easy and the risks were controllable. After all, he had information from the future and knew when and why the plane crashed. But now, everything has changed and is beyond his control.
In any case, it seems that the situation has not yet developed to the worst, and all dangers must be curbed.
Leo pursed his lips for a moment. He could sense Xu Cang's urgency. As expected of a senior executive, this man had a decent mental state. He immediately started to unbuckle his seat belts: "Mr. Xu, let's go to the front cabin first!"
Xu Cang nodded and began to unbuckle his seat belt. While doing this, Xu Cang was still listening to the sound of the engine surging outside. The only thing that made Xu Cang feel at ease was that the frequency of this engine surging was very low and did not seem to be that serious.
But at the moment Xu Cang unbuckled his seat belt, the low-frequency and low-volume surging sound suddenly rose without any warning!
Boom!
The noise was like a terrible explosion in a sealed iron barrel! The entire cabin could hear the sudden explosion!
Xu Cang stood up suddenly. What he feared really came true. He was feeling lucky that his asthma was under control just a moment ago. How come it got worse so quickly now?
However, the moment Xu Cang stood up, he felt something in his heart. Under the light of the reading lamp, Xu Cang clearly saw countless tiny dust particles falling down. They were so small that he had not noticed anything just now.
Xu Cangping raised his right palm, trying to catch the dust that came from nowhere. The dust was so small that even if Xu Cang caught it, he could not see it with the naked eye.
Suddenly, Xu Cang's eyes froze slightly, and the falling dust seemed to cause a ripple in his heart.
"This is not dust, this is... ashes?" Xu Cang's heart was beating wildly, and the uncontrollable speed seemed to make his heart jump out of his throat.
Did he finally know what that strange smell was?
It's not ozone, it's...sulfur!

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