Chapter 378: Hidden dangers of fan blades, fluorescence test!
About an hour later, Xu Mingjian's minor suture operation was over. After the anesthesia wore off, Xu Cang went to visit Xu Mingjian.
Perhaps there was still some residual anesthesia. When Xu Cang entered the ward, Xu Mingjian had gauze wrapped around his head and was sitting on the bed with lifeless eyes. He did not react until Xu Cang walked to the bedside.
"Xu...Mr. Xu." Xu Mingjian looked at Xu Cang with a hint of apology: "I seem to have embarrassed myself again."
Xu Cang comforted him: "This matter has nothing to do with you, don't take it to heart."
"I can't seem to do anything right." Xu Mingjian looked very frustrated. "The doctor just told me that my left eye vision will be significantly affected. Will I be unable to be a pilot?"
This question made Xu Cang silent. He didn't quite know how to tell Xu Mingjian. After a while of silence, Xu Cang felt that he should make it clear: "It has already happened, and the result cannot be changed. What we need to do is to plan for the future."
"Future plans?" Xu Mingjian's face was full of confusion.
Xu Cang nodded: "Yes, future plans. Now it's due to objective physical conditions. Although it's a pity, it's highly likely that you won't be able to fly anymore. You should make some plans for your future life earlier, right? Do you have any ideas?"
"I..." Xu Mingjian lowered his head and thought for a long time, but he could not come up with an answer.
Faced with this unexpected misfortune, Xu Mingjian stood at a crossroads in his life, and he seemed at a loss as to what to do.
Seeing that Xu Mingjian didn't know how to answer, Xu Cang hesitated for a moment and said, "If you don't mind, I can reserve a ground position for you in the company..."
Xu Mingjian, who had been unable to make a decision, suddenly raised his head and said, "No, really no, you have already treated me so well, I can't accept your gift anymore."
To be honest, Xu Cang's giving to Xu Mingjian has reached a point that is difficult to understand.
It is simply unbelievable that they recruited Xu Mingjian, who was over the age limit, communicated privately with the aviation school to give Xu Mingjian more opportunities for trial and error, and provided him with another ground position after he was no longer able to work in the flying industry.
"You can accept it. This is what you deserve." Xu Cang said calmly, "If you are worried that the ground position I assign to you is too bad, then I can tell you the truth now. The high-end ones are not acceptable because they require sufficient experience. Putting you there will only harm you. However, I can reserve a relatively leisurely mid-level position for you. The income and workload should satisfy you."
"No, no, Mr. Xu, that's not what I meant." Xu Mingjian was too shameless to accept it anymore, and quickly said, "Mr. Xu, I remember now. I have a relative who works at the barley factory in my hometown. He seems to be a small leader. Maybe I can ask him to arrange a job for me."
"Barley Factory?" Xu Cang frowned: "Are you lying to me?"
"I'm really not lying to you." Xu Mingjian said hurriedly, "It's good to work in the barley factory in my hometown. I can also take care of my family. I have been working away from home before and have been separated for a long time. My wife is about to give birth, and I can also take care of the child in my hometown."
At first, Xu Cang wanted to persuade her to stay, but after hearing about taking care of the child, Xu Cang immediately gave up the idea and just nodded: "Well, it's good for you to go back. Your injury this time is a work-related injury, and you can receive a basic salary every month in the future."
Xu Mingjian was startled: "Boss Xu, I have to go back to my hometown and can't work in Chunxia anymore."
"No, you don't need to work. This is the compensation we give you. Although the monthly amount is not too much, you can receive it until you are 60 years old." Xu Cang said.
"This..." Xu Mingjian knew that his basic salary at Spring Airlines was calculated based on the flight academy's salary, and his basic salary was 3,000 yuan a month. In this era, 3,000 yuan a month was considered good. The most important thing was that Xu Mingjian didn't have to work at all, so he earned white-collar wages.
Although Xu Cang's reason was work injury compensation, Xu Mingjian always felt that it was not that simple.
Xu Cang saw that Xu Mingjian was a little hesitant: "It's just compensation for work injury. Are you still hesitating?"
"Ah? Oh." After hearing what Xu Cang said, Xu Mingjian felt that it made some sense, so he hurriedly thanked him and accepted it.
Xu Cang nodded: "Then you should have a good rest, I won't disturb you."
After saying that, Xu Cang stood up and prepared to leave. When he reached the door, Xu Mingjian suddenly shouted, "Boss Xu, I don't understand why you gave me so much?"
Xu Mingjian knew his own limitations and knew that Xu Cang had nothing to gain from him. However, Xu Cang was a little too good to him, which made Xu Mingjian feel a little burdened.
Xu Cang stopped walking, turned around and smiled: "It's okay, I've already said it, you deserve it, you don't need to have any doubts."
After he finished speaking, Xu Cang left the ward, leaving behind Xu Mingjian who seemed to understand but not quite.
…
On the rooftop of the Jianchuan Airport Group building, even though the sky was dotted with stars and the surroundings were foggy and quite chilly, General Manager Ye Shengning still held the railing and looked at the Jianchuan Airport not far away.
Behind him, the secretary waited quietly, without saying a word.
The two of them just stood there, without communicating or saying anything, and the atmosphere was a little weird.
After waiting for a while, Ye Shengning finally broke the silence. He pointed in the direction of the airport and said, "Our building is only 23 stories high. The view from the top is very good, but it is almost impossible to see below."
The secretary looked in the direction Ye Shengning pointed, and sure enough, the entire Jianchuan Airport was shrouded in thick fog, which was particularly obvious under the light.
The range of the fog is actually very limited. The height definitely does not exceed the top floor of the group building. The range is mainly above the airport apron, and the marginal areas include some buildings in the airport work area. This is very strange, as if the fog is specifically aimed at Jianchuan.
Moreover, once the fog forms at Jianchuan Airport, it will hardly dissipate unless in the afternoon, which is really a headache.
"This is not your responsibility, Mr. Ye." The secretary retracted his gaze and said lightly, without much emotion in his words.
Ye Shengning pursed his lips, looking gloomy and unhappy: "Jianchuan Airport should not be a place prone to fog. However, after the airport was built, a large reservoir was built near the airport, which caused abundant water vapor in the airport area and made it extremely easy to form fog. However, the construction plan of the reservoir was not informed to me when the site was selected, which caused this situation..."
Ye Shengning stopped complaining halfway through his speech and turned back to look at the secretary: "How are the crews of the two airlines?"
"The crew of Chengdu Airlines was not injured. The situation of Spring Airlines was slightly worse. One of them was seriously injured, but his life is not in danger."
Ye Shengning kept tapping the cold metal railing with his right index finger, "The fog problem at Jianchuan Airport has been going on for many years, right? Many pilots are complaining about it, right?"
"Boss Ye, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't have to take it to heart."
"But, in the end, I am the one who bears the blame. Will the crew mention the reservoir when they complain ? They may not know the inside story of the reservoir and will only blame everything on the original location of the airport." Ye Shengning gritted his teeth and said, "When the fog problem became more and more serious, I proposed to introduce a foreign airport monitoring system to monitor taxiing aircraft in real time, especially in low visibility, to prevent taxiing errors. However, they thought the airport monitoring system was too expensive and were reluctant to introduce it. Now that such a big thing has happened, the losses are enough to introduce an airport monitoring system."
The so-called airport monitoring system is considered to be cutting-edge civil aviation technology even abroad.
Since the control unit can monitor the planes in the sky, in principle, it should also be able to extend the monitoring range to the ground. That is, the position of the taxiing aircraft can be seen in real time at the ground control seat for monitoring and timely detection of errors in the aircraft's taxiing.
The signal from the aircraft transponder is also fed back to the airport monitoring system to determine the real-time location of the aircraft.
However, in the transponder setting, the TA/RA position is not used, but the altitude shutdown mode is used, which is actually not in line with the current pilot's procedural habits during taxiing.
Moreover, air routes are much wider than taxiways on the ground, which requires the airport monitoring system to maintain extremely high position accuracy.
The current domestic conventional control radar is not enough, and it is necessary to introduce foreign monitoring systems. This thing is very advanced even in foreign countries and is very expensive.
Since the establishment of Jianchuan Airport, its throughput has only started to increase recently with the development of the domestic economy. Earlier, Jianchuan Airport was basically in a loss-making state. Now that they have just had a better life, except for Ye Shengning, the other leaders do not want to invest all the money they have saved with great difficulty in the so-called airport monitoring system. They think that even in low visibility conditions, if the controller's instructions are clear and the flight crew executes them in place, there will be no problems.
But they forget that people make mistakes, this is an objective law.
In fact, price is not the only reason, there is also the issue of program changes.
Nowadays, domestic pilots turn the transponder to the standby position when taxiing. They have been doing this for a long time and it has become a habitual procedure for domestic pilots.
If Jianchuan Airport activates the airport monitoring system, it will need to change the pilots' procedural habits accordingly. Moreover, since it is the only one of its kind in the country, the airport group feels that this will appear pretentious.
Many times, being unique is not a good thing, especially for an airport of the size of Jianchuan. Being a pioneer can easily lead to unnecessary trouble.
In addition, this makes it seem as if the airport is not confident in its own command capabilities, which is obviously not what the airport group leaders want to see.
Anyway, the saying "the laws of our ancestors cannot be changed" has its own practical significance. There is no way around it. Not only does matter have inertia, but human thinking also has inertia. Most people are unwilling to change.
However, after this incident, can the leaders of Jianchuan Airport take Ye Shengning’s previous suggestions seriously?
However, compared to the airport surveillance system, Ye Shengning is now more concerned about another matter, that is the case at the second airport.
No matter from which angle, Jianchuan Airport can no longer meet the operational requirements. The suggestion from Qin Xin about Jianchuan's second airport, Dianyun, has been deeply imprinted in Ye Shengning's mind and cannot be erased no matter what.
"After this incident, maybe the people from the airport department will bring up the old matter again. It's really troublesome." Ye Shengning said helplessly.
The problem of Jianchuan Airport's site selection was caused by many factors, and Ye Shengning could not be blamed on him alone. However, Ye Shengning was the leader of the airport site selection team, and when problems arose, no matter what the reason was, Ye Shengning had to shoulder the responsibility, and he could not take the blame anymore.
However, Xu Cang now wants to give him an extra chance.
Originally, Ye Shengning thought he could take his time. However, after this incident, Ye Shengning felt that he didn't have that much time.
If he continued to move slowly and something went wrong again, Ye Shengning's reputation would be ruined before the plan for the second airport was implemented. The blame would be enough to crush him.
Therefore, he felt the need to speed up the construction of the second airport.
Ye Shengning hesitated for a moment and said, "Let Yao Binghua come to see me tomorrow."
The secretary was startled: "Boss Ye, what are you going to do?"
"One of Luo Yong and Wang Xuan from Blue Sky Airlines must go in." Ye Shengning whispered, "I want Xu Cang to accept my favor."
"But, this is something you plan to exchange with Xu Cang later."
"I can't wait any longer!" Ye Shengning shouted, "Go ahead and do it."
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At the maintenance base of Southwest Airlines, in a huge hangar, an old Boeing 737 is undergoing maintenance. Most of the aircraft body has not been changed, only the left engine No. 1 has been disassembled for the most part, and all the blades have been removed and placed on the table next to it.
One of the middle-aged mechanics with untidy beard picked up one of the fan blades and looked at it for a long time: "Is there any problem?"
A younger maintenance worker nearby was flipping through the maintenance log: "Two months ago, this engine underwent a major overhaul, which included a fluorescent inspection of the fan blades. The results were confirmed to be normal."
The middle-aged maintenance man clicked his tongue and said, "That's strange. Logically speaking, it's only been two months since the overhaul, there shouldn't be any problems."
"Could it be some other problem?" the young maintenance worker asked. "High engine vibration values are not necessarily caused by the fan blades. It could be something else, and it's sporadic."
The middle-aged maintenance man pursed his lips and said, "We have checked all other places, except for this low-pressure fan... However, it has been tested with fluorescent light, so there should be no problem."
The middle-aged maintenance man hesitated for a moment and said, "How about this? Let's report the situation to the higher-ups and do another fluorescence test."
"Ah?" The young mechanic was stunned. "If we do the fluorescent test, the coating on the fan blades will be peeled off. This costs a lot of money."
"There's nothing we can do about this." The middle-aged maintenance man waved his hand: "Just report it and apply for a second fluorescence test."
"But it's only two months before the overhaul." The young maintenance man was a little worried: " What if they don't agree?"
The middle-aged mechanic fell silent for a moment. Under normal circumstances, there should be no problems with the engine that had just been overhauled two months ago. Doing another fluorescent test would be time-consuming, laborious and costly. The superiors might really not agree.
"How about, forget it?" the young mechanic suddenly said.
