Chapter 42(1/3)
Silence, Silence is the tower and jl503 tonight.
While Kudo Shinichi and Furukawa Kisa and Amuro Toru were correcting the dive speed, they had been looking through the manual to try to find out the problem with the aircraft.
Furukawa Kumisa had already asked the system to check when there was a problem with the aircraft. It took a lot of time to install the half-baked subsystem of the flight plug-in, and finally gave the answer.
"Host, there should be something wrong with the engine!"
With his own eyes, Amuro Toru saw that the dive correction was almost complete, and he was using the control stick to reverse the aircraft back to the straight flight mode.
After another period of spinning weightlessness, the plane finally entered its normal flight path.
Furukawa Kumisa tentatively asked: "Is there something wrong with the engine..."
Before she could finish her question, violent shaking came from the side of the plane again, and screams broke out in the cabin. Furukawa Kumisa almost bit her tongue.
"what happened again??"
The answer to her question was the electric bell coming from the cabin, and the steward's voice came from the intercom: "Thick smoke from an unknown source began to rise in the cabin!"
The panicked cries in the cabin were transmitted through the receiver into the cockpit. The plane was still diving downward due to inertia. Although it was not as terrifying as the previous speed, it gave many passengers time to react.
From a sharp fall to a slow fall, it seemed that it only gave them the opportunity to clearly know that they were heading towards death.
When Kudo Shinichi heard the cries in the cabin, his already white complexion became even more ugly. He answered the phone: "Which side did it come from?"
"Right side!" There was already a commotion in the cabin, and the flight attendant had to shout in reply.
"learn!"
Furukawa Kumisa thought instantly: "When the problem first occurred, my joystick was shifted to the left! There was a problem with the right engine!"
"Dududu——"
The moment the words fell, a serious warning sound suddenly sounded in the entire cockpit, and a fatal red light flashed in the cabin, as red as blood.
The "engine fail" indicator light on the instrument panel started to give a crazy warning.
Furukawa Kumisa realized: "The right engine has stalled!!"
Just as she was about to reach out to push the button to restart the engine, the engine indicator light on the left side jumped twice and also changed to "engine fail".
"Damn! The left one won't work either!"
The plane that lost its source of power plummeted downward again, diving all the way toward the sea below!
"Ahhhhhh-" the crazy crying came again in the cabin.
Furukawa Kumisa slapped his palm on the joystick: "Amuro Toru! What should I do?"
"Restart the engine first..." Amid the irritable and desperate cry, Toru Amuro's voice was still as steady as a mountain. He glanced at the indicator light and said, "Wait a minute! The temperature of the right engine is wrong!"
The pointer on the dial indicating the engine temperature had turned to 8. Kudo Shinichi exclaimed: "The temperature of the right engine is 800 degrees!"
"No wonder it's burning!" Furukawa Kumisa exclaimed.
The normal engine temperature is about 650 degrees at most, and now the right engine can no longer be used. Furukawa Kumisa reached out to restart the right engine, but after waiting for a few seconds, there was no response.
"No, the right engine is paralyzed, and the engine fire will spread to other parts!"
Kudo Shinichi's forehead was already dripping with sweat. He stared at the screen in front of him, "Use the left engine to put out the fire!"
Just when Furukawa Kumisa was about to press the reset button, he held her hand with a "snap".
"no!"
There was a hint of solemnity in Toru Amuro's voice, "If the left fire extinguishing device is activated, the left engine will not be able to start. If both engines are lost at the same time, the aircraft will directly enter an inertial dive attitude and can only make a hard landing!"
Only then did Furukawa Kumisa notice that Amuro Toru's palms were also sweaty. The two sweaty hands were clasped together, and the scorching temperature spread along the overlapping skin. Furukawa Kumisa's heart almost skipped a beat.
——The nervous kind.
Toru Amuro, don’t panic! What should we do if you are so panicked!!
The stalling of the twin engines cut off the power supply of the entire aircraft, and the lighting in the cabin flashed twice and suddenly went out.
The cabin instantly fell into darkness, almost blending in with the night outside the cabin.
In the deathly darkness, the screams in the cabin gradually weakened, and despair spread from behind.
Plop, plop, plop——
Three rapid heartbeats gradually beat one after another in the darkness, almost all the sounds in the cabin today.
Finally, Toru Amuro took a deep breath and let go of Furukawa Kumisa's hand.
"Attempt an emergency landing immediately."
Furukawa Kumisa even felt that he heard it wrong: "Now??Sea???"
She looked at the pitch-black water in front of her - they hadn't even reached the edge of the coastline, and there was no way they could make an emergency landing on the ground.
Kudo Shinichi also disagreed and tried to analyze calmly: "The survival rate of a forced landing on the sea is extremely low, and we only have one engine on one side, so it is difficult to maintain balance.
"An aircraft like the A321 with engines under the wings, if which side hits the water first, will instantly lose balance and disintegrate due to uneven resistance."
Toru Amuro's voice was still very calm: "If we activate the left engine to extinguish the fire now, we may be able to hold the plane until it reaches the ground and make an emergency landing, but that would be a hard landing with both engines out;
"On the contrary, if we ignore the right engine now and restart the left engine to start the emergency landing immediately, there is still hope of landing on the water before the left engine is completely disabled.
"Moreover, the temperature of the water surface can extinguish the aircraft's fire. Now the right engine is already burning. If we don't find a way to cool it down quickly, the entire aircraft will explode."
Amuro paused slightly, and there was even a fatalistic heaviness in his voice.
"Do you choose to fly to the ground and let nature take its course, or do you want to survive on our own within a limited time?"
The cockpit fell into dead silence again. After a moment, it was Furukawa Kumisa who was the first to answer Toru Amuro.
"Preparing for an emergency landing."
She is a person who is used to fighting for her life - her life has long ended in her own world, and every minute and every second of her life since being tied to this system has been earned by her own hard work.
Kudo Shinichi is not a "resigning oneself to fate" character at heart. After listening to Amuro Toru's analysis, he immediately had no objection.
"Okay, let's give it a try!"
The final word from the protagonist was particularly powerful, and Furukawa Kumisa was instantly inspired.
"I am responsible for starting the auxiliary power system and restarting the left engine at the same time. When the power supply is restored to the cabin, communication with the ground can be restored." She took a deep breath, "Amuro-kun is responsible for operating the aircraft to balance into the water, Kudo-kun... Kudo-kun will...
Responsible for arguing with the ground tower."
Kudo Shinichi:???
"Children, don't get involved in such high-risk things. Be good."
Kudo Shinichi simply doesn’t know where to complain, but now is not the time to complain.
Furukawa Kumisa said in a deep voice: "Are you ready?"
No one answered her, but she understood what they meant from the silence.
"3,2,1!"
The auxiliary power system was triggered, and Furukawa Kumisa's hand speed was so fast that it almost formed a ghost image on the dashboard. Only then did Kudo Shinichi realize that Furukawa Kumisa's instant memory was full of bugs.
She remembered the operating sequence of more than a dozen buttons of the auxiliary power system and started it almost instantly.
"Restart engine!" Her fingertips pushed the restart button of the left engine.
The left side of the plane shook violently, which was a sign of the engine restarting.
The sound from the tower finally reached the cabin, and the usually calm voice on the other side finally sounded a little anxious: "JL503, JL503, can you hear me?"
Kudo Shinichi took the walkie-talkie and replied: "I heard it. The current altitude is 3500, and the right engine of the plane is on fire. We are trying to land."
The tower did not realize the seriousness of the matter at this moment: "We have cleared runways 13, 08, and 26. You can land on any one."
"We can't land on the designated runway."
Tower: "Which runway are you going to land on?"
"...We are going to land on the sea."
Tower: "???"
Intense discussions came from the radio on the other side of the tower, but the three people in the cockpit no longer cared about it.
Toru Amuro said while controlling the balance joystick: "Notify the cabin to prepare for an emergency landing."
Kudo Shinichi picked up the intercom and sent a notification to the flight attendant outside. Furukawa Kumisa reached out and grasped the joystick on his side, trying to make this useless system help.
——1000 meters.
When we were still one thousand meters away from the sea, the voices of stewardesses teaching passengers how to do cushioning could be heard in the cabin.
——800 meters.
Furukawa Kumisa almost held his breath as he looked at the horizontal surface in front of him, and mobilized all his strength to focus on the joystick in his hand.
"Furukawa, Kudo." Toru Amuro suddenly spoke, "The black box in the cockpit can record the last half hour of conversations in the cabin."
Furukawa Kumisa understood what he meant almost instantly.
She listened as Toru Amuro said calmly, as if it had nothing to do with her: "If you have anything to say, say it now."
To be continued...