On September 15, 20xx, Friday, it was a very ordinary day at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport. After checking blankets, earphones and other items, the crew of Air China Flight 1332 made sure everything was ready and waited for the crew to come in.
"I'm actually flying with Brother Jia today. I really want to post it on Moments." The new flight attendant, Yang Feifei, was very excited. After speaking, he turned on the front camera of his mobile phone and tidied up his bangs.
The purser next to her, Cheng Xuan, had experienced everything, and had already seen the crew at the pre-departure preparation meeting, so she didn't feel anything unusual. Takeoff, landing, Guangzhou to Beijing, Beijing to Guangzhou, the same route, repeated thousands of times. It's not any different except that today's captain is an Air China celebrity.
"You're going to take a selfie," Cheng Xuan teased Yang Feifei, "Then take a picture after the flight."
Yang Feifei nodded: "That's for sure, Sister Xuan, work comes first."
After a while, the crew came up, the captain Chen Jiayu, and the co-pilot Xu Hengchuan. The two greeted the flight attendants politely.
Actually, about Chen Jiayu, there are many rumors inside Air China.
Three years ago, he caught up with the most serious aviation accident in domestic civil aviation in the past five years. When the Air China Flight 416 he was driving was refueling at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, impurities were mixed into the fuel due to construction problems in the airport's aviation fuel pipeline, which in turn caused the fuel supply valve to suddenly get stuck when the plane was at cruising altitude. At high altitude, both engines suffered serious failures at the same time. At that time, Chen Jiayu had just been promoted to captain for more than a year. When he shouted mayday at a place 50 nautical miles away from Hong Kong International Airport, the news reached the ears of all civil aviation personnel in the mainland almost simultaneously.
Yang Feifei was still at the University of Aeronautics and Technology at the time, so she only found out about it after the fact, but Cheng Xuan had the impression. She was still working as a flight attendant at China Eastern Airlines at the time, and she was on vacation when she was changing shifts. He was at another flight attendant sister's house and watched Chen Jiayu's life-and-death emergency landing at Hong Kong Airport on TV.
Originally, the terminal was the plane in Shanghai, but whether it could successfully rush to land or make an emergency landing at an airport with a runway is still unknown. If the sea made an emergency landing, most of the 238 people on board would never survive. It is not for nothing that US Airways Captain Sully's forced landing in the Hudson River is called a miracle. But that was the calm Hudson River, not the stormy sea. The waves in the South China Sea are two meters high. The moment they touch the sea level, they can tear the plane apart or cause it to roll over, crashing the plane and killing people in minutes.
The most serious thing is that one of his engines stalled because the fuel could not be delivered, and although he was able to slowly increase the thrust to 70% after ten minutes of groping, the thrust of the other engine was completely stuck at 70% after that. % can't get it back. Although it was able to provide enough thrust to allow the plane to fly back to Hong Kong and avoid a disastrous sea landing, it also directly caused him to be unable to slow down at all when he landed.
In the end, Chen Jiayu controlled the Airbus A330 and slid onto the longest runway of Hong Kong International Airport at a dangerous speed 100 knots faster than the normal approach speed. Slam on the brakes. In the end, the plane slid almost the entire runway, barely stopping at a place only 200 meters away from the beach at the end of the runway. The Hong Kong media broadcast the whole process of this thrilling landing, calling it the "Miracle No. 416". Some people even said that this was the most successful emergency landing of domestic civil aviation in the past ten years. There were no casualties from the crew to the passengers, the most serious being the abrasions. After evacuating all the passengers, Chen Jiayu and his co-pilot Chang Bin came out of the cockpit. Almost at the moment of jumping out, the tires caught fire due to high temperature and excessive friction when they landed. This successful escape scene, enough to enter the annals of history, was captured by reporters who rushed to the scene, and was broadcast countless times in domestic and foreign media.
At first, Air China deliberately suppressed the news because the cause of the accident was still under investigation. However, the videos of the media present and some photos and videos of the passengers quickly spread on the Internet. Naturally, everyone in the civil aviation circle knows who the heroic captain is.
With the conclusion of the investigation, it was clear that the cause of the accident was a problem with the aviation oil pipes used at Jakarta Airport, and Chen Jiayu and Chang Bin did not make any operational mistakes. On the contrary, their excellent flying ability and unchanging quality in times of crisis directly led to everyone being able to escape. Therefore, the higher-ups did not suppress the news, but greatly publicized their heroic deeds. Chen Jiayu appeared on countless news, interviews, programs, and even live broadcasts. He was reluctant to go at first, but the secretary insisted on him. So in the end, except for "moving China" when he contacted Air China, he refused. He didn't refuse. Air China may have really won the jackpot. Not only were there no casualties in the accident, there was not even a broken bone. Chen Jiayu is also a star captain, not to mention handsome at 1.85 meters tall. He also came from a double-flying family with a pilot father and The mother of the flight attendant and the grandpa of an air force are simply certain promotional materials.
His fame has spread beyond the civil aviation circle, so it is only natural for a new flight attendant like Yang Feifei to feel that if the sky falls, he can fly with him.
The crew was finishing the pre-flight checklist, Xu Hengchuan asked Chen Jiayu: "Brother Jia, is today your last flight this week?"
Chen Jiayu nodded: "Well, I will rest in Beijing for two days before coming back."
In fact, regardless of his qualifications, flight records or fame, Chen Jiayu has been steadily flying international long-distance flights with Air China for the past few years, and he only flies Airbus, especially the international senior section. A lot of money. These flights are undoubtedly the most sought-after on any airline. However, Chen Jiayu did not fly his excellent long-distance international flight, and even refitted and trained his Boeing license. He was just transferred to fly short-distance flights a while ago, and Xu Hengchuan didn't really understand why. But he was not familiar with Chen Jiayu, and he didn't want to ask him rashly.
Although Chen Jiayu is the captain, this time he does not plan to be the main pilot, but Xu Hengchuan is mainly responsible for controlling the aircraft, which just allows him to accumulate the experience and hours of the main flight, while he is responsible for executing checklists, radio communications, etc. This is also a good exercise for Xu Hengchuan. They finished their work very early, but there was a problem with the scheduling at Baiyun Airport, which made them wait for another half an hour.
Xu Hengchuan is from Guangzhou, and he often sees from Bai Yunfei. He can see that Chen Jiayu is a little impatient, but he is still tense, so he explained: "Recently, this has often happened. I don't know if it's the lack of people on the ground, or the traffic is heavy recently. Last time I was delayed by four hours with the other captain."
Chen Jiayu made a joke and said: "There is a four-hour delay, so you guys just don't fly."
Xu Hengchuan said helplessly: "There is no way, the tower is not strong enough. The airport should also be expanded."
Chen Jiayu was even more annoyed when he watched the Dongfang and Cathay Pacific planes that arrived later than him slide out in front of him one after another. However, Guangzhou is not his territory. He turned on the radio and wanted to argue with the ground, but he thought it was unnecessary, so he turned off the radio.
The cabin was very noisy due to the delay, and several passengers made things difficult for them. They grabbed Yang Feifei over a problem of hot and cold water, and almost made Yang Feifei cry. Even Chen Jiayu came out of the cockpit to check the situation-today Xu Hengchuan took the lead, So he took on all the other tasks, including of course making sure everything was in order in the cabin. At a glance, he saw Yang Feifei secretly wiping tears with a tissue. He frowned, but when he saw Cheng Xuan, the purser, supporting Yang Feifei's shoulder and giving him a nod of approval, Chen Jiayu sat back.
"What's wrong, brother Jia?" Xu Hengchuan asked him.
Chen Jiayu said: "It's okay, you fly yours." He took out his mobile phone to check, there was no text message or WeChat, and slipped the mobile phone into his pocket again.
In contrast to the cabin, the cockpit is quiet and silent. After forty minutes of waiting, Xu Hengchuan quietly maneuvered the Boeing 737-800 and slid him off the runway.
From time to time, Chen Jiayu would think of that day two years and ten months ago, when he was flying high into the sky, he didn't know what kind of fate was waiting for him. Not only him and his co-pilot Chang Bin, the two model captains with four stripes on their shoulders, but also all kinds of travelers on Flight 416, whether they are bankers with successful careers, entrepreneurs who are always flying trapeze, or The poor backpackers, the lives of more than 200 people have been rewritten forever since that day. They become "survivors".
He remembers the initial moment of panic when the engine stuttered and the fuselage shook, and he also remembered that on the instrument panel, the thrust of the engines on both sides instantly slipped to a dazzling 0%, and the plane fell straight into the sky over the South China Sea like a gliding attitude. km. He clearly remembers every second of this process, which left a deep memory in his mind like a phonograph recording a disc, and it was like reading a disc, and it was played repeatedly for more than a thousand days afterwards. Whenever this time, he forced himself to forget.
"Air China 1332, taxi out, runway 2R, turn right and depart at 090." He picked up the radio and whispered the tower's instructions.
Under the huge thrust, the speed of the plane rose quickly. He stared at the speedometer intently: "V1." This is the decision speed. After reaching this speed, the plane will take off no matter what.
"Turn up the wheels." The nose of the Boeing 737 lifted up and flew towards the sky above Baiyun Airport--
Non-civil aviation practitioners, try to check the information as much as possible, please forgive me if there is something unrealistic.
Mayday: The call sign of an aircraft in the most urgent situation, from the French m'aider (save me).
Big four: refers to flying from A to B to C and then back to B and finally back to A, a total of four stages. If it is ABA, it is two paragraphs.