Chapter Seventy-Six: Salvage Plan
It took a while for all the high-ranking personnel of the entire bison tribe to recover from their extraordinary state, and all of them entered the work of negotiating the salvage plan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter everyone was normal, the salvage company's engineers also took out a report and handed it to everyone present at the meeting.
It is worthy of the top salvage company in the United States, and the report made is very detailed. But one of them, Lefu and all the tribal high-ranking people voted against it, that is, the plan to destroy the wreckage of the plane for salvage was vetoed. The reason is very simple, all the remains on the plane, whether it is the pilot or the attendant on the private jet. The entourage accompanying the old chief on his visit to Europe must be salvaged in its entirety, and not a single bone can be missing.
Since the plane that crashed was a small private jet, but it was also more than 25 meters long. The overall salvage of the nacelle part is very difficult, and the steel cylinder of more than 15 meters is fished up from a depth of 1,000 meters below the seabed, and the difficulty can be imagined. It would be much more convenient to cut the wreckage of the plane into pieces, and then salvage the independent room of the plane as a whole, both the money and the time spent are very short. It was also the best plan, but the Bison tribe did not agree, and the entire cabin of the aircraft had to be salvaged.
Even the little chief Lefu has ordered that no matter how much money is spent and how much it costs, the cabin part of the private jet that the old chief is flying in must be salvaged as a whole. If one company can't do it, if two companies cooperate, it is difficult for two companies to achieve such a goal, that is, three companies.
How much does it cost? The bison tribe bears whatever the cost. With such a guarantee as the Little Chief, what else is there to scruple about the salvage company? All salvage tasks of the company have been suspended. Pooling all the manpower, material and financial resources of the company to discuss and formulate the possibility of salvaging the wreckage of the plane 24 hours a day, two days later, finally came up with a salvage plan approved by the Bison tribe.
The programme required $56 million, which was covered by Loafou's own sheikh's private fund. More than 30 underwater robots were used, 10 of which were owned by the salvage company. Another 20 were rented from other companies, and 30 underwater robots worked together to secure them through thousands of kilometers of steel cables through the cabin of the aircraft.
Then the selfie salvage boat drove together at full power, lifting the wreckage of the aircraft cabin as a whole little by little. Little by little, it was raised to the surface of the sea, and everyone knew that the Atlantic Ocean was rough and the sea conditions were very bad. Although it is the end of May and the beginning of June, the bad weather over the Atlantic Ocean has not eased, and the wave height has reached more than five meters on a normal basis.
Although the salvage ship has a large tonnage and excellent wind and wave resistance, the eight steel cables that sank to the bottom of the sea, plus the overall fuselage salvage project. In such choppy undercurrents, it was difficult to stabilize the cables, causing the nacelle to sway from side to side in the depths of the seabed. Due to the amplitude of the shaking, the two steel cables were overwhelmed and partially pulled and folded by the nacelle, resulting in a serious tilt of the nacelle, and the salvage operation had to be suspended.
After a three-day break in the Atlantic Ocean, the robot re-entered the ocean floor. Then the steel cable was re-fixed, this time for the sake of insurance, four more steel cables were added, a total of twelve steel cables were fixed on the machine. Then slowly the whole ascension, and then the small underwater robot ushered in the hard work, and began to sort out the various relics scattered near the wreckage of the plane.
Then the search for the black box at the tail of the cabin began, and the nose part could only wait for the entire cabin to be lifted up before the salvage operation was carried out. There are 12 steel cables to fix the engine room together, and the four high-power salvage ships are running 24 hours a day, and the overall engine room is lifted at a speed of 300 meters per day.
It took five days for the cabin part of the Bear to come to the surface, and then the semi-submersible boat drove under the cabin to drag the fixed cabin. Only then did the ship turn around and return to New York, and the overall salvage operation took more than ten days, and the wasted funds reached about 60 million. Fortunately, the entire part of the cabin was salvaged from the water and remained intact, and the wreckage in the cabin was not lost.
After salvaging the cabin part, the rest of the head and tail of the aircraft will be easier. The tail of the aircraft served as the cabin part, and some of the cargo it carried also contained gifts from European heads of state to the chiefs and couples of the bison tribe. The most important thing is the black box at the tail of the aircraft, and if the black box is salvaged, the tail of the aircraft will be discarded in the Atlantic Ocean. Then the nose part was salvaged, and when the wreckage of the plane arrived in New York Harbor, all the members of the entire Bison tribe greeted the hero's return under the leadership of Little Chief Lifu.
Due to the need for disinfection, the operation to greet the old chief and his wife could only be carried out on the periphery, and they looked at the engine room above the semi-submersible ship. Two hours later, he returned to the apartment under the guidance of Lefou, and then the entire tribe had a meeting with the upper echelons. The content of the meeting was very simple, that is, Lefu personally brought Prime Minister Eric with several high-ranking tribal officials, the Minister of Law, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to prepare to welcome the remains of the old chief and his wife.
The rest of the people return to the Bison Tribe, led by Chris, Loew's cousin, the next prime minister. Prepare for the funeral of the old chieftain and his wife, although the Indians are not as obsessed with death as the Chinese. It is possible to face death calmly, but the funeral of the chieftain and his wife is a matter of the face of a tribe, and it must not be done with carelessness, and it must be done with great solemnity, so as to win the necessary respect among all the Indian tribes.
So the funeral needs to be prepared well in advance, with notice to friendly tribes, friends, and the more friendly officials of the U.S. government. came to attend the old chief's funeral, so Chris took people back to the tribe to preside over the overall situation, and two days later, after DNA comparison, the location of the old chief's remains was finally confirmed.
In the middle of the crowd protection, the couple hugged each other until death, and sat on the sofa with all the bodyguards of the entourage. Moreover, the remains looked very peaceful, without any fear, which made all the tribal leaders very pleased, and at the same time admired the brave attitude of the old chief and his wife in the face of death, which deserved everyone's admiration.
All the remains were collected by a DNA testing system to identify each other, and each body was encased in a top-of-the-line solid wood coffin. Waiting for the transport of the bison tribe for burial, the burial site is the bison tribe civilian cemetery.
The cemetery is located on the edge of the first step of the terrain farmland, on a hillside with mountains and water and dense vegetation. The remains of the Minister and his wife will be placed in a valley in the center of Bison Mountain, a small valley where the chieftain's family is grave. There are more than 150 members of the Niutou family in the valley, including Lefou's grandparents and all the relatives.
The remains of the old chief and his wife were arranged and placed in the coffin by Lefu himself, and he was just about to close the coffin lid, but he did not expect the staff of the salvage company to invite him to the office. Then he handed Lefu a jewelry box made of sterling silver, which Lefu recognized. Because this jewelry box was given to her mother by the 10-year-old Lefu on her mother's 35th birthday. Always by her mother's side, no matter where she is, this small jewelry box has always been with the old chief's wife.