Chapter 2028 - Great Luck in the Midst of Misfortune
When Cao Yue was steering the plane, he found that a total of three missiles were flying towards the special plane, so he increased the accelerator pedal of the plane to the maximum, climbed up at the maximum angular angle, and then released the jamming device to avoid the missile attack.
After receiving the report of the possible attack, Cao Yue immediately thought that Christopher might use a shoulder-fired missile attack.
The maximum range of the most powerful MANPADS is only about 8,000 meters, while the range of the MANPADS is only 5,000 meters, and the firing altitude is about 3,000 or 4,000 meters. If the civil aircraft cruises normally, that is, flies in the airspace of about 8,000 to 10,000 meters, then there is no need to be afraid of the attack of shoulder-fired missiles. But by the time he received the report, Caprise Lopez's plane was already preparing to descend.
It was only about 15 minutes from Oslo Airport, and the civil aircraft began to prepare for landing, and it usually took about half an hour to arrive at the destination. The original cruising altitude of the special plane was 8,100 meters, but when Cao Yue took over the plane, it was 5,300 meters, and the flight altitude had dropped quite a bit, and it continued to decline.
When preparing to land, the co-pilot adjusts the aircraft to autopilot and slowly descends to altitude.
After Cao Yue took over the plane, he withdrew from autopilot mode to manual control, a process that took dozens of seconds, at which point the plane dropped a few hundred meters in height. If the MANPADS are launched on a mountain two or three thousand meters high, then a civilian aircraft flying at this altitude can be completely hit by a MANPADS.
Therefore, his reaction was to immediately adjust the altitude of his flight, turn at a large angle and flee, fleeing to a distance from the high mountains below.
But it was still a step too late, and by the time he was doing these operations, the missiles on the ground had already been launched.
All of Cao Yue's worries became a reality, and the person who launched the missile landed on a mountain about 3,500 meters and fired at a shoulder-fired missile at that altitude. The relative altitude is only more than 2,000 meters, and it can be shot down by a launching aircraft with a shoulder-fired missile.
Cao Yue didn't see the scene of the two missiles being interfered with by tracer bullets and deviating from direction due to their altitude, he just felt the violent tremor that followed, and a feeling of despair instantly came to his heart--- plane was hit by a missile.
When the plane trembled violently, Cao Yue also found that the power of the plane was declining rapidly, and he immediately found that black smoke came out of the engine on one side.
Caprius Lopez's special plane is an Airbus 330 plane that has just been replaced today, with two engines.
Theoretically, one side of the engine is damaged, and the other side of the engine can continue to fly, and the power is completely sufficient.
However, when the missile hit one side of the engine, it not only damaged the engine, but also caused severe damage to the wing, and the plane quickly lost its balance.
Cao Yue hurriedly made a series of remedial measures, and the final situation made him breathe a little sigh of relief, the plane did not completely lose control, but after he increased the other side of the engine to a sufficient speed, the speed of descent became slightly slower.
What made Cao Yue most fortunate was that except for the alarm of the engine and wing on that side, there was no alarm for the airtightness of the engine room, that is, the explosion that occurred after the engine was hit only damaged the wing and did not affect the cabin.
In other words, the damage to the cabin was not very serious and did not cause a serious drop in air pressure.
Cao Yue immediately changed the order, telling the butterfly not to rush to skydive immediately, but to wait for him to descend to a certain height and adjust the internal and external air pressure to the same before opening the cabin to skydive.
When a civil aircraft rises into mid-air, the cabin still maintains normal atmospheric pressure, and the atmospheric pressure in the air at that altitude is only a fraction of that of flat ground. If the air pressure inside and outside is inconsistent, the cabin door will be opened, and the people and objects inside will be quickly pressed out by the huge pressure in the cabin, and some people will even die as a result. If the pressure inside and outside the cabin drops to the same, then there will be no problem jumping out of the cabin.
This is the reason that a large transport plane transporting paratroopers can parachute through the hatch.
There were 35 people on the plane, Cao Yue and his entourage, including Butterfly and Kazumiko, a total of 7 people, and the other 28 people were all Caprius Lopez's men.
Caprius Lopez had only 15 parachutes, which meant that there were still 20 people who would not have the opportunity to jump.
Cao Yue ordered the original co-pilot, and they would take control of the plane and prepare for a forced landing.
He was going to parachute with the others, and he wouldn't have made a forced landing with the plane himself, because that would be too risky.
The pilots of these two special planes are very good in their skills, and now the plane is not completely out of control, and under his control, a certain degree of balance is still maintained, so it is possible to find a place to make a forced landing.
Cao Yue's order was passed to Caprith Lopez through the butterfly, and Caprius Lopez was already panicked at this time, and she didn't hear the butterfly's order, and finally the butterfly ran over by herself and brought back the frightened co-pilot.
At this time, the altitude of the plane had dropped to 3,300 meters, but it was still a little early to parachute safely.
Cao Yue began to release the air pressure in the cabin. Sadly, at this time, the cabin pressure began to alarm, that is, the cabin was indeed damaged, and there was a pressure leak.
Cao Yue gave the butterfly an order again, asking her to order others to parachute about 2,000 meters, and at that altitude, he would reduce the pressure to the same level as the atmospheric pressure outside.
The butterfly agreed without any hesitation. Standing at the door of the cabin, the butterfly could clearly see through the porthole on the side that the missile was smoking, and the fragments of the wing were constantly flying.
The plane did not explode on the spot, nor did it get out of control, which made the butterfly breathe a sigh of relief.
It's really lucky, and fortunately, Cao Yue's preventive measures have played a role.
There were three missiles launched, and if all of them were hit, the plane would definitely explode on the spot, or completely lose control.
Cao Yue maneuvered the plane's large-angle climb, as well as released jamming bombs, and successfully dodged the attack of two missiles, which cannot be regarded as a miracle. Also, the power of the missile that hit the plane was not fully exerted, otherwise the plane would not have been able to control it.
Of course, such a miracle would not have happened if it had not been for the MANPADS that had attacked them.
Lady Luck still favors them.
Soon, Cao Yue's order came again, saying that the internal and external air pressure was already about the same, and the altitude of the plane was only 2,200 meters.
Butterfly immediately gave Cao Yue's order, and as Butterfly's order was given, the two emergency escape hatches were immediately opened, and several of Cao Yue's entourage escaped from the plane first.
It's not a question of who comes first, the person who jumps out first can warn the person behind, and you can also go to the ground first.
When three of Cao Yue's entourage jumped out of the cabin, four of Caprius Lopez's key entourage also jumped out of the plane.
The plane had been handed back to the original pilot, and Cao Yue, who came out of the cabin, also ran quickly to the open hatch.
(End of chapter)