In a high-end apartment in New York, USA, Xiao Lingyun went back to rest after returning from Google headquarters.
I had talked to Xu Cang on the way, and Xu Cang didn't know what was wrong, and kept asking Xiao Lingyun to take a rest. Xiao Lingyun had an inexplicable premonition, as if something big was about to happen, and he was extremely excited, so he didn't have any thoughts of resting.
However, as soon as he got home, Xiao Lingyun was overwhelmed by sleepiness.
There was no way. After landing in the United States, he went straight to Apple and then to Google. Strictly speaking, he hadn't slept for more than 28 hours. Although he was still energetic, after a short rest, the feeling of fatigue still came over him.
I returned to the apartment, took a shower, and fell asleep.
However, perhaps because he had something on his mind, Xiao Lingyun only took a short nap and slept very lightly. He was soon awakened by a burst of noise.
"What's going on?" Xiao Lingyun rubbed his eyes and gradually became conscious. He could hear bursts of chaotic shouting coming from outside the window, which made Xiao Lingyun quite annoyed.
This is an upscale community, and this kind of nuisance should not happen.
Once the sleepiness is gone, it will never come back. After yawning a few times, Xiao Lingyun got out of bed and stood outside the window, drinking water and looking at what was happening outside.
It would be fine if you didn't look at it, but once you looked, you would find that the square downstairs was full of people running, and the flow of people was extremely chaotic. The more you looked, the more it looked like they were fleeing.
"What?" Xiao Lingyun almost choked on his water. He looked into the distance and saw a column of smoke rising into the sky among the high-rise buildings. "Is there a fire?"
Xiao Lingyun put the cup aside, his heart full of doubts.
I turned on the TV casually, without tuning into any news program, and the first program was a special news broadcast, which showed the scene of the collision of the World Trade Center.
Xiao Lingyun was stunned and it took him several minutes to recover. He also got a general understanding of the current situation from the news.
"The World Trade Center was hit by a hijacked 767?" Xiao Lingyun muttered to himself, his mind racing. Was this action in some sense an attack on the U.S. mainland?
It is also stated in the news release that the entire U.S. airspace is now in a no-fly zone. This executive order speaks volumes.
There was a reason why Xu Cang valued Xiao Lingyun. At least after this shocking news came down, Xiao Lingyun quickly recovered from it and smelled a hint of a huge opportunity.
Soon, Xiao Lingyun ran back to the bedroom and called Xu Cang while rummaging through clothes, but the call kept showing that it could not be connected. After trying several times, he remembered that Xu Cang should still be on the plane at this time.
He cursed himself for being too sleepy and quickly called another person.
Soon the call was connected, and Xiao Lingyun asked hurriedly: "Where are you now?"
"Where are you? I'm at home. I just got home." A young man's voice came from the other end of the phone.
This is a full-time driver that Xiao Lingyun hired after coming to the United States. He is also Chinese.
"Come here quickly."
"What's up?" the driver asked casually, "Where are you going?"
Xiao Lingyun whispered, "Go to the New York Stock Exchange."
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At this time, the Tokyo Tower Special Observation Deck in Shiba Park, Minato Ward is bustling with people. Every night, a large number of tourists come here specifically to overlook the entire Tokyo.
There is a large observation deck at 150 meters above Tokyo Tower and a special observation deck at 250 meters. Its area is much smaller than the large observation deck, but the view is much better because it is at a high altitude.
However, at this moment, in the area on the edge of the special observation deck, many couples are enjoying the beautiful scenery. There are also many sightseeing telescopes in the area. Among them, a girl, accompanied by her boyfriend, is using a sightseeing telescope to scan the surroundings.
After scanning the city of Tokyo, I moved the telescope upwards to see the stars in the night sky.
However, a bright spot suddenly flashed across the brilliant starry sky, and it flew towards the low sky with a long tail of flame.
"Meteor?" The girl was stunned.
However, the bright spot soon expanded rapidly in the field of vision, and finally a large passenger plane with its left engine on fire came into view. Moreover, the plane was not heading somewhere else, but was diving straight towards where he was.
The girl left the telescope with her mouth slightly open. Her boyfriend was leaning against the railing with his back to her. Seeing his girlfriend's surprised expression, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "What's wrong?"
The girl pointed to the sky and asked, "Why is it coming this way?"
"What?" The boyfriend was stunned. He turned around and looked in the direction his girlfriend pointed. He saw a huge ball of fire rushing towards him: "That's..."
Without the help of a telescope, the boyfriend didn't know what it was, but no matter what it was, as long as it hit the Tokyo Tower, it would not be acceptable.
In addition to the girl, other people on the stage also noticed the abnormality in the sky, and the scene was in chaos for a while.
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In the cockpit, Richard Bayer originally planned to follow Xia Shuyue's request and rescue Xu Cang first, but he soon discovered that the plane was not in a good state and immediately shouted: "The plane is diving, too fast!"
At this moment, Richard Bayer could no longer consider Xia Shuyue's request and had to help Xia Shuyue first.
If the plane crashed, Xu Cang would still die.
So, Richard Bayer left Xu Cang alone and took the lead in helping Xia Shuyue pull open the hose of the oxygen mask.
Although Xia Shuyue was angry that Richard Bayer didn't listen to her, she also knew that there was no time to dwell on it, so she urged again: "Help Xu Cang pick it off!"
"I'll help Xu Cang take off his mask, you quickly control the plane." Richard Bayer said anxiously, looking outward: "Isn't Haneda Airport ahead!?"
When Richard Bayer saw the red and white landmark Tokyo Tower in the middle of the windshield, he was stunned and then shocked: "It's the wrong direction. We are going in the wrong direction. The airport is on the right."
"You take care of Xu Cang's matter." Xia Shuyue was so anxious that sweat beads appeared on her forehead . The loud noise just now was obviously coming from the left. Although she didn't know why the No. 1 engine suddenly had problems, she was sure that the No. 1 engine was scrapped.
Moreover, the current situation is indeed quite bad. Perhaps the joystick was touched by mistake. The plane dived downward at an incredible speed. What's worse is that the direction is completely reversed.
Richard Bayer gritted his teeth, ignored the plane, and quickly took off Xu Cang's mask.
Xia Shuyue was conscious and could cooperate with Richard Bayer, but Xu Cang was already unconscious and had no idea how to cooperate. Moreover, the plane was tilted very low at the moment, and Richard Bayer needed one hand to support himself, otherwise his body would lean forward.
As a result, Richard Bayer tried several times but failed to take the mask off Xu Cang's face.
Xia Shuyue was very anxious when she saw that Richard Bayer could not take off his mask, and she was not sure how to turn the plane back to the fifth side of the runway at Haneda Airport.
Although they still have some altitude, the descent rate is too fast. The numbers on the altimeter keep changing, and the speed is so fast that there are some afterimages. The descent rate is probably more than four thousand feet per minute.
Such a terrible descent rate caused the speed of the aircraft to increase rapidly. Fortunately, they had deliberately lowered the speed before. At this moment, the speed had not exceeded the limit, but it was already close to three hundred knots. If it increased further, it would be speeding.
The descent rate of four thousand feet per minute consumes an extremely astonishing amount of altitude. Originally, Xia Shuyue could only vaguely see a light , but after a while, she could see the details of the Tokyo Tower more clearly.
The best plan now is to make a right bank turn toward the final approach of Haneda Airport.
However, in order to reduce the workload, Xia Shuyue did not pay much attention to the correspondence in rolling.
From the perspective of saving time, it is impossible for Xia Shuyue to memorize all the corresponding relationships between pitch, roll and thrust in a short time. Compared with the importance of pitch and thrust in approach and landing, roll can be perfectly replaced by rudder.
The wind is very light in this field, so use the rudder to move to the fifth side little by little and keep on course.
This is a very practical way to reduce their own burden. After all, when they contacted Haneda Airport Control, they already knew that there were no aircraft taking off or landing above the airport, and they had complete autonomy in horizontal and vertical space.
However, horizontal direction and vertical height are not equally important data.
The direction of the plane going left or right will not make much difference, but the difference between a low altitude and a high altitude will be huge. Therefore, in terms of trade-offs, Xia Shuyue decisively gave up the effort of rolling.
Such a seemingly reasonable choice seems particularly fatal at this juncture.
The rudder can indeed replace the ailerons to a certain extent, but only within a limited range.
The rudder is not normally available because the aircraft has natural heading stability and there is no need to use the rudder to correct the aircraft's drift. Therefore, using the rudder to change the aircraft's heading is actually increasing the aircraft's drift, and if the drift is too large, the aircraft will become increasingly unstable.
Therefore, the use of the rudder to change the course of the aircraft can only be controlled within a very small range, and a slope of less than ten degrees is considered normal. Any larger would increase the risk.
However, in the current situation, a ten-degree slope turn is basically equivalent to a futile effort and will not improve the current situation at all.
Another point is that the location of the damaged engine of the aircraft was very unfortunate.
If the No. 1 engine is damaged, the right rudder will naturally need to be partially applied to offset the drift caused by the inconsistent thrust. And this amount of rudder will gradually increase as the thrust of the No. 2 engine increases.
This right rudder that is pressed to correct the drift will not cause the aircraft to roll to the right. In other words, if the right rudder was fully pressed before, the aircraft could produce a ten-degree right rolling slope at the intermediate thrust value, but now it is estimated to be only about six degrees.
In this situation, the aircraft, which already lacks the means to roll right, is even more vulnerable.
Therefore , it is impossible to use the rudder to turn the aircraft's heading in the opposite direction to the fifth side of Haneda Airport in a short time. If you want to turn it around, you must use the ailerons.
However, Xia Shuyue just didn't know how to turn the plane right with a large slope.
The aircraft was in a very delicate situation and could not be operated violently. If she pressed the side stick and the aircraft turned left instead of right, it would be impossible to change direction.
"Shall I level it first?"
For now, the safer method is to reduce the aircraft's descent rate. It is best to level the aircraft and then use the rudder to slowly turn back to the direction of the airport.
Richard Bayer heard what was said and responded while taking off Xu Cang's mask: "Okay, can you increase the attitude slowly? The aircraft is going too fast right now, and a large increase in attitude all at once will easily cause the aircraft to be overloaded."
At this moment, the aircraft speed has reached about 345 knots. If there is no electrical system failure, the overspeed audio warning in the cockpit should sound.
If the aircraft is going too fast, you cannot pull the stick suddenly, as this may easily damage the aircraft's fuselage structure.
However, Xia Shuyue looked at the Tokyo Tower getting closer and closer, and didn't care about that: "We are not speeding much... just maneuver more aggressively... it should be fine."
In fact, it’s not that Xia Shuyue doesn’t want to, but that she can’t do it.
In fact, she had seen the complete changes in the side stick's movement posture, but Xia Shuyue couldn't remember it, especially now when she was so confused, it was even more difficult to recall.
She was unable to complete a gentle posture increase process, and could only increase the familiar positive two-degree posture all at once.
Once an overspeed situation occurs, the maximum speed and duration of the overspeed situation must be recorded in the maintenance book afterwards, because exceeding the maximum speed is likely to cause damage to the fuselage structure. However, given the concept of redundancy, the occurrence of this damage is only a concept, not a certainty.
Therefore, Xia Shuyue had a glimmer of hope, thinking that his sudden increase in posture would not cause any big problems.
This idea is so logical, and of course it is also a helpless move.
However, just before Xia Shuyue was about to move the pole, she suddenly stopped moving and looked back with horror on her face.
Richard Bayer's hands kept moving. He hadn't taken off Xu Cang's oxygen mask yet, but he had torn the edge of the mask a little, breaking the seal of the mask, at least Xu Cang wouldn't be suffocated to death. However, the hole was not big, so it was better to take it off as soon as possible.
"What's wrong?" Richard Bayer noticed Xia Shuyue's actions.
Xia Shuyue's face turned pale: "There is a sound, a bad sound!"
In the first class cabin, the captain looked in horror at the half of the engine fan blade that had penetrated the inner wall of the cabin.
That's right, the broken fan blade of the No. 1 engine was thrown out and inserted diagonally into the front fuselage. The structural strength of the aircraft fuselage is very high, but that is for the basic frame. The outer surface of the cabin is actually a layer of skin. The strength of the engine fan blade is very high. The fragile skin can't withstand the impact of the blade and is directly penetrated.
Perhaps just relying on his feeling, or perhaps realizing what the cockpit might do, the captain sitting in the first-class cabin raised his voice and suddenly shouted: "The aircraft is damaged, the aircraft is damaged!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Richard Bayer's face changed suddenly and he immediately looked at Xia Shuyue.
Xia Shuyue also stopped what he was doing completely, and now they were in an extremely embarrassing situation.
The pitch attitude of the aircraft was stuck by the side stick. Even if the throttle was increased, it would not change the aircraft's climbing rate. Instead, it would increase the aircraft's speed and kill it faster. Xia Shuyue did not know how to input new attitude information gently. Now that the aircraft was damaged and was already in an overspeed state, any rough control would cause the aircraft to disintegrate.
Xia Shuyue could keep the pitch attitude unchanged, but she would have to turn the plane to the fifth side of the airport.
However, this is only a temporary solution, because the plane will not be able to complete the landing at a descent rate of 4,000. Xia Shuyue still needs to adjust the descent rate.
Therefore, the final solution was to adjust the pitch attitude. But Xia Shuyue was confused and could not find the corresponding relationship between the pitch attitude and the side stick position.
As the ground got closer and closer, even the air traffic control signs on the Tokyo Tower became clearly visible.
The height of Tokyo Tower is far beyond that of ordinary high-rise buildings. The existence of such a building in the approach area requires special air traffic control signs. The air traffic control sign of Tokyo Tower is a flashing red light on the top of the tower.
Xia Shuyue didn't just see it, but could even see the outline of the light fixture clearly.
"What should I do? What should I do?" The more nervous Xia Shuyue became, the more confused she became. Her mind went blank. Everything she remembered and didn't remember was just a mess.
At this moment, Xia Shuyue felt Xu Cang's greatness so clearly.
It's not just about having the ability. The most difficult thing is whether you can use your ability in desperate situations and under great pressure.
Richard Bayer also turned pale. So... they were really at their wits' end!
At this moment, Richard Bayer finally took off Xu Cang's mask, and the breath of rebirth made Xu Cang, who had lost consciousness, suddenly wake up.
A hint of red flashed across Xu Cang's bloodless face, and then he tilted his head back and let out a long breath.
This was not Xu Cang's recovery, but rather a situation similar to a last-ditch effort. This indicated that Xu Cang had reached the end of his life. All functions of his body were operating at overload, and he was making his final struggle driven by his instinct for survival.
The moment he regained consciousness, Xu Cang let out a long breath and glanced around. In just a moment, he understood everything at the moment.
What is a person with supreme talent? In just a short period of time, Xu Cang has already found a way to crack the problem.
He raised his right hand and grasped the sidebar on his side.
Previously, when he called Xia Shuyue to the cockpit, he reopened the authority of the side stick on his side. Even after Xu Cang fell unconscious, he still did not suppress the authority of the right side stick.
"Xu Cang..." Xia Shuyue exclaimed in surprise that Xu Cang had actually regained consciousness, but when she saw the unusual flush on his face, she knew that Xu Cang was making his last effort to survive.
At this moment, Xia Shuyue became more and more anxious.
If that's the case, they won't even have a chance to take off.
Xu Cang had very little time left. A go-around would take at least ten more minutes, but ten minutes was too long for Xu Cang.
“It’s not over yet!”
A faint smile appeared on Xu Cang's face, as if the danger at the moment was as easy as a breeze and drizzle to him.
A gleam of crystal appeared in Xia Shuyue's eyes, while Xu Cang's eyes turned firm. He stretched out his right hand to the left, crossed it and placed the flap handle directly to the bottom.
After the flaps were extended, the curvature of the aircraft's wing increased. Although there was no change in the pitch attitude, the descent rate began to decrease rapidly.
However, at this moment the speed of the aircraft has exceeded the speed indicated on the flaps by far. Even in the cockpit, the creaking sound of the flap mechanical structure can be heard. At this speed, the flaps may break at any time.
However, Xu Cang had anticipated this. He had never thought of using flaps to completely control the rate of descent, but only to slow down the descent process and buy more time.
Then, Xu Cang pressed the side stick to the right without any hesitation.
The plane formed an exaggerated slope of more than 60 degrees at such an extremely exaggerated speed and turned to the right.
Richard Bayer was surprised and delighted. Xu Cang should not have verified the relationship between roll control and sidestick position. He should have only tried to verify the correspondence between the throttle and thrust value of engine No. 1. Why could Xu Cang accurately form a large slope?
Suddenly, Richard Baier realized that he had tried to change the bank of the aircraft slightly after Xu Cang had full control of the right side stick. At that time, he slightly pressed the stick to the left and showed it to Xu Cang.
At that time, the slight left pressure on the stick reduced the aircraft's right bank angle from nearly 80 degrees to 60 degrees. That is to say, the extent of Richard Bair's left pressure was the sidestick angle required to form a 60-degree right bank.
With Richard Bayer's flying ability, the left-hand swing demonstrated by raising his hand was basically the same as the actual one. However, it was basically just a casual demonstration at the time, and Xu Cang not only remembered it, but also could sense how big the angle was just by the demonstration. It was really terrifying.
For large passenger aircraft, a slope of more than 35 degrees is considered a complex state, not to mention the exaggerated slope of 60 degrees.
However, with this turn, the lift of the aircraft was greatly decomposed, and the aircraft should have increased its descent rate. However, Xu Cang lowered the flaps before turning, which increased the initial lift of the aircraft. Instead of increasing the descent, the aircraft's speed dropped sharply during the turn. In just two seconds, the aircraft's speed had dropped below the maximum speed.
Xu Cang's manipulation has always been serial.
He knew that with the current state of the aircraft and the extra-long runway at Haneda Airport, there was no need to use flaps, so he could safely achieve the goal of reducing sinking and deceleration at the cost of damaging the flaps.
It is understandable to reduce the sinking, but if the plane descends too fast, Xia Shuyue will have no time to react, so he must first keep the descending rate.
However, the speed also needs to be reduced, otherwise Xia Shuyue will have too little room for trial and error in pitch.
In fact, Xu Cang didn't know about the problem with the fuselage of the aircraft, but in such a dive environment, Xia Shuyue was still hesitant to increase the pitch attitude of the aircraft. The only explanation was that there was a problem with the fuselage of the aircraft, and he was hesitant because of the huge possibility of the fuselage disintegrating.
As long as the speed of the aircraft is reduced, the change in pitch attitude and thus the change in aircraft load will be limited to a controllable range, and Xia Shuyue will be able to operate it with greater ease.
In fact, all of this is to create better conditions for Xia Shuyue's landing.
No matter how Xu Cang changed the situation, the only way out was to let Xia Shuyue complete the mission by landing.
The plane was turning at a very fast speed due to the huge slope. It had turned 90 degrees and the lights of Haneda Airport could be seen in the peripheral vision.
However, the vibrations of the aircraft became stronger and stronger, which was a precursor to the damage to the flap structure and its imminent collapse. At the same time, the skin of the No. 1 engine fell off and the aircraft caught fire and was severely damaged, which also generated violent vibrations that were transmitted to the fuselage.
Xu Cang said in a low voice: "Turn off the main switch of engine No. 1."
Xia Shuyue was still a little confused, but Richard Bayer reacted quickly enough. He stood up slightly, cut off the No. 1 engine, and added: "Do you want to put out the fire?"
"No need, evacuate on the spot after landing, and complete the fire-fighting procedures during this time." At this time, Xu Cang turned his head to look at Haneda Airport, which was already very close.
The starting speed of WN3102 was too high, exceeding 340 knots, while normally the aircraft speed would be reduced to about 130 or 140 knots at this position, more than twice as fast, so the aircraft's approach rate to the airport was too fast.
This was because the plane flew in the opposite direction for a while, which increased the distance between the two. Otherwise, it would have entered the five-nautical-mile range of the field at this time.
However, even if there were still seven nautical miles, this distance would only take less than two minutes for WN3102 at a speed of more than 200 knots. Especially now that the aircraft was still rolling, by the time the real confrontation began, it would probably only take more than a minute.
At this moment, the aircraft is far above the standard three-degree descent trajectory. However, the descent rate of WN3102 is quite large, almost twice the standard descent rate, so without considering the stable approach, it should be possible to complete the altitude correction at the last minute.
However, this requires the aircraft to maintain a huge nose-down angle when approaching, so that the final leveling angle difference will be greater than the normal leveling.
Moreover, since the aircraft's approach speed was extremely high, if Xia Shuyue made an incorrect attitude adjustment and failed to level off, then needless to say, the aircraft would crash headfirst into the runway. If the attitude increase was too large, the aircraft would instantly level off at a high speed.
At such a high speed, the level drift distance is very exaggerated. Even if the runway of Haneda Airport is very long, it cannot withstand such a toss.
Therefore, at such a high approach speed, higher precision of control is required.
Just as the nose of the plane was about to turn to the fifth direction, Xu Cang said silently: "Shu Yue, the plane is now in your hands. You have to complete the landing!"
"Me?" Xia Shuyue's eyelids kept trembling, and the sweat on her forehead had condensed into a thin layer. The pressure was too great, so great that she couldn't bear it.
She originally thought that she could take on the important task given by Xu Cang, but when the moment came to shoulder it, she still backed down.
Xia Shuyue's left hand holding the side rod felt as if it had touched a branding iron, as if he had seen something terrible and could not avoid it.
"No, I can't. I'm not you, Xu Cang. I can't do it. I can't remember." Xia Shuyue shook her head in pain, her body curled up involuntarily and shivered.
"Don't be afraid, I'm right beside you..." Xu Cang felt that the energy in his body was rapidly draining away. He was originally in his last moments, but he had consumed a lot of his energy just now, and he could no longer hold on. The blush on his cheeks was disappearing quickly, and faded back to its original paleness.
At the last moment, Xu Cang adjusted the plane to a zero-degree attitude with the little memory he had, but he did not move the throttle of the No. 2 engine because he had never tested the throttle of the No. 2 engine before and did not dare to move it.
Before that, in order to descend as quickly as possible, Xia Shuyue set the throttle of the No. 2 engine to the slow position.
With both engines slowing down, the aircraft attitude at zero degrees, and the approach speed slightly higher than the clean configuration speed, the aircraft's descent rate has exceeded 1,700 feet. In this way, the aircraft's descent rate is a bit too high. If this descent rate is maintained, the aircraft will not be able to fly to the airport and will fall outside the runway.
Adjusting the aircraft's attitude to the final approach descent attitude was the last thing Xu Cang could do. At this moment, he felt his vision blurred, his breathing became more rapid, and his consciousness, which had just become somewhat clear, began to blur again.
His right hand drooped down directly, and the movement attracted the attention of Xia Shuyue who was standing next to him. She suddenly noticed that Xu Cang's breathing was rapidly weakening, as if he was breathing in more and out less.
Xia Shuyue's face changed drastically and she screamed, "Xu Cang, Xu Cang!"
Xia Shuyue felt as if the world was collapsing at this moment, and she was completely at a loss. She was so confused and didn't know what to do.
Just before Xu Cang completely lost consciousness, his lips moved slightly, and his weak and pleading words directly hit Xia Shuyue's heart.
"Shu Yue, I still want to live!"
Xia Shuyue was struck by lightning, and a ray of light broke through the endless darkness and confusion.
At this moment, everything is clear!
She was no longer afraid or scared because she knew what she should do.
Of course, if a person knows where her direction is, then everything she has will exist for this direction.
Xia Shuyue's mind, heart, and thoughts were freed from chaos and disorder in an instant, and the memories that were trapped in the vortex began to gradually become clear.
The plane's descent rate was still so fast. A minute or so was not a long time, but it was like a year of torture for everyone in the cabin. On the contrary, at this moment, Richard Bair seemed unusually calm, as if he had accepted all possible outcomes.
From beginning to end, Xia Shuyue did not move. She was like a sculpture, as if she was surrounded by long-lasting silence.
The captain was sitting in the first-class cabin. He could see the towering buildings on both sides through the window, which meant that the plane was already at a very low altitude. However, the plane's nose-down posture was still so exaggerated from his physical senses. This was not a normal landing posture at all.
"Cockpit, what are you doing? Reduce the descent rate, reduce the descent rate!" The captain yelled towards the front, but the plane did not change at all.
"Give up, they give up." The captain let out a crazy laugh and turned his head. A tall building outside the window was as tall as them. In less than five seconds, the plane would touch the ground, but the cockpit was as silent as death.
Suddenly, a hysterical laugh came from behind the captain: "Xu Cang, let's die together. I am the winner after all."
I don't know when, the previously unconscious sturdy man has woken up. However, his hands are still tied and he can't move. However, this still can't stop his arrogant and crazy laughter, as if dying together is already a great victory.
The white man seemed to realize that the plane was about to crash. He laughed even more wildly and kept repeating: "I win, I win, I win!"
However, Xia Shuyue, who had not taken any action before, finally moved. Those countless memory scenes had been smoothly connected together. At this moment, the secret... no longer existed.
Only Xia Shuyue's indifferent but firm voice could be heard faintly coming from the cockpit and filling the front cabin: "I have understood everything. You lose!"
Then, when the plane was about to touch down outside the runway, Xia Shuyue's left hand moved up and down like threading a needle, at an incredibly fast speed. The plane, which had not been very stable before, began to increase its attitude gently. At the same time, Xia Shuyue pushed the throttle lever of the No. 2 engine to about two-thirds of the position with his right hand, and the No. 2 engine with slow thrust suddenly roared.
Under the combined effects of increased thrust and attitude, the aircraft fell a little due to inertia, but eventually leveled off less than fifty feet from the ground.
It was during this two-second leveling operation that the plane finally entered the airspace above the runway.
Richard Bayer, who had given up, suddenly regained hope and shouted, "Increase the attitude slowly to seven degrees, and the throttle will decrease as the attitude increases."
This landing method is actually not... applicable, because there is no standard landing technique. How the posture changes, how the throttle changes must be changed according to the situation at the time. There is no one trick that can be used everywhere.
However, we are not discussing how to complete a smooth landing now. The only requirement is to be able to smash the plane on the runway without falling apart.
And the landing method he mentioned is the safest.
However, the key to landing is never a question of technique, but how to do it.
The increase in attitude and the decrease in throttle are a continuous process. If one of the values ​​changes suddenly, the landing will easily fail.
To be honest, given the problems with both the flight control computer and FADEC, Richard Baier didn't think this was something humans could accomplish.
However, in the next moment, Xia Shuyue showed Richard Bayer what the peak was!
As the plane entered the air above the runway, Xia Shuyue's left and right hands seemed to be splashing ink on a blank piece of paper. Richard Bayer could not even see her movements clearly.
However, even though Xia Shuyue's left and right hands moved so frequently, the change in the aircraft's attitude was reflected as if there was no problem. The aircraft was slowly increasing its attitude at an extremely steady rate, and the sound of the No. 2 engine was gradually weakening.
This is a landing that looks extremely standard from any angle!
At the back, Richard Beyer almost let out a long roar. Is such a shocking performance really possible for a human being?
Xia Shuyue really memorized the attitude and thrust values ​​corresponding to the side stick and throttle lever exactly. Is this... really true?
Just as Richard Baier was still immersed in shock, the wheels of the plane gently touched the runway surface, as if sinking into cotton, with almost no obvious sense of grounding.
Perfect, so perfect!
Richard Bayer felt as if all 48,000 pores on his body had opened up and his heart was pounding, as if he had discovered the most perfect work of art in the world.
However, despite such excitement, Richard Bayer still retained the last bit of rationality and shouted immediately after landing: "Manual brake!"
Due to a problem with the hydraulic system, the automatic brake could not be used, so only manual brakes could be used. Richard Bayer deliberately reminded Xia Shuyue so that she would not forget.
In addition, Richard Baier stood up immediately after the plane entered the taxiway and turned off the main switch of the No. 2 engine, shutting down the second engine. In addition, he turned off all the fuel switches, which was the same procedure as the forced landing on land.
The reminder of manual braking upon landing had been given in the air. Xia Shuyue had no experience in operating large aircraft, so she had not planned to use the reverse thrust of the No. 2 engine from the beginning, in order to avoid going off the runway due to inconsistent reverse thrust.
Therefore, they simply followed the procedure for forced landing on land and directly cut off the No. 2 engine.
Xia Shuyue naturally remembered that as soon as the plane touched the ground, she immediately stepped on the manual brake. The plane slowed down rapidly and in a short while it had dropped to an extremely low speed.
Finally, when she stepped on the parking brake, Xia Shuyue felt exhausted and collapsed in the seat. She felt like her heart was about to jump out.
Richard Bayer opened his mouth and looked at Xia Shuyue with an inexplicable expression. He said in a low voice, "Xia Shuyue, tomorrow...you will be famous all over the world."