Chapter 282: Invisible Destruction
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Although in addition to the captain and co-pilot, there are two pilots and a full-time navigator on the "Air Force One," the automatic driving system of this large special plane improved by the Boeing 747 is more advanced than any other passenger plane, and it can not only fly automatically, but also automatically evade danger when encountered, and even automatically turn on the electronic jamming system when it is attacked by missiles. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Equipped with two flight crews, mainly for safety reasons.
Normally, there are at least two pilots and one navigator in the cabin. For long flights, the navigator takes time to rest for a few hours, while the two groups of pilots take turns on duty.
In fact, most of the time, Air Force One flies under the control of an autopilot system.
All the pilot has to do is monitor the instrument panel in front of him, intervene if something goes wrong with the autopilot system, and cancel the autopilot if necessary.
At the heart of the entire autonomous driving system is a central control system located in the cargo compartment of the aircraft.
It can be said that this is also the biggest difference between the "Air Force One" and ordinary civil airliners.
Air Force One is not only the car of the President of the United States, but also the office of the President of the United States during his travels. For a president who is in a position to do a lot of things, even in the middle of a few hours of travel. Sometimes, it is even necessary to discuss some national affairs on this plane, or to have a conference call with officials who are staying behind. In the event of war, this is the president's air command post.
To this end, Air Force One is equipped with a large number of electronic and communication equipment.
Among other things, just to power these electronic devices, two 550 kilowatt generators are needed, and there are three such generators in total on the plane.
All electronic systems are in the cargo hold on the lower deck of the airliner.
After the two Australian reporters were called away by the flight crew, the gray-backed jackal left the cabin, excused himself to go to the toilet, and went to the cabin in front of him.
Although there are not many passengers on the "Air Force One", including the crew, there are only more than 100 people, only one-third of the normal passenger capacity of the Boeing 747, but the layout of the cabin is relatively special, and you can see air crew members in US Air Force uniforms everywhere you go, and you can also meet some special agents of the special service from time to time.
The toilets are at the back of the cabin, which is not spacious or cramped.
Once inside, the Greyback Jackal did not lock the hatch.
To get into the cargo compartment at the bottom of Air Force One from the restroom, you first have to go into the pipe compartment above, crawl about 20 meters ahead, and descend down the crew lift aisle. This route, the gray-backed jackal has long been in mind. It didn't take much effort for him to get into the pipe compartment.
It's not narrow inside, but it's packed with pipes and cables, and it's not easy to crawl inside.
Fortunately, the gray-backed jackal is relatively thin, at least a circle smaller than Liu Wei.
Because there was the cabin below, there must have been quite a few flight crew inside, and only a not-so-solid ceiling was in the middle, so the gray-backed jackal could only crawl on the frame that carried the pipes, and it took him about five minutes to reach the vicinity of the elevator passage.
Here, not at the top, but at the junction of the raised part of the nose of "Air Force One" with the rear fuselage.
That is, the compartment is in the middle of the lift aisle.
In order to enter the cargo compartment below from the lift aisle, the grayback jackal has to wait until the lift rises to the top floor, and then open the partition between the bottom of the aisle and the cargo hold before the lift falls. Otherwise, he will be crushed into a patty when the lift falls.
After waiting patiently for about five minutes, the lift finally went up.
Like the sightseeing elevator, the lift has glass windows on all sides. It's just that the gray-backed jackal stays in the dark, and the lights are on in the elevator, so the people in the elevator can't see the gray-backed jackal hiding outside.
When the elevator went up, the gray-backed jackal burrowed into the passage.
At the bottom of the passage is a partition made of synthetic plastic sheets, which is not too thin and not strong enough. It didn't take much effort for the grayback jackal to lift the partition and enter the cargo hold before the lift fell.
It is much colder in the cargo compartment as compared to the passenger compartment.
Although the "Air Force One" is a fully pressurized cabin, that is, it maintains a pressure of 0.8 atmospheres in the cargo hold, but the air conditioning system is only for the passenger compartment and does not reach the cargo compartment.
You know, at this time, the flight altitude of "Air Force One" was 11,000 meters.
Outside, the temperature was below minus forty degrees.
Fortunately, the heat emitted by the electronic devices kept the temperature in the cargo hold at about minus 10 degrees, and it was not cold enough to incapacitate the gray-backed jackal.
It wasn't too difficult to find the central computer of Air Force One, because that mainframe computer was very conspicuous.
Before coming to the control panel, the gray-backed jackal closed his eyes and pondered for a few seconds before pulling out the keyboard below and starting to type a code provided by Li Tingxuan.
Because the boarding check is very strict, not only can not carry weapons, but also electronic devices cannot be carried, so the gray-backed jackal can only memorize the code of the program completely. Ordinary people definitely can't do it, because a program that is not too small has at least tens of thousands of lines, or even hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The gray-backed jackal is not an ordinary person, as a member of K1, he has the ability to never forget, and after FOS transformation, he is even more at the peak. It only took him one afternoon to memorize the 100,000-line code, and not a single character was missing.
It's easy to memorize, but it's definitely not easy to enter 100,000 lines of code in a short period of time.
To do this, the grayback jackal dedicatedly spent a day practicing typing on the keyboard. After hard work, his input speed reached 15,000 characters per minute, which is equivalent to 900 lines of code per minute, so in about an hour and a half, he can input 100,000 lines of code into the computer.
When practicing, the record for the shortest time spent by the grey-backed jackal was 94 minutes.
If he could enter it in ninety-four minutes, he would be able to get back to the cabin in time.
It can be said that these are all planned.
According to the interview arrangement, the Australian reporter had two hours of exclusive interview time, followed by Liu Wei and the South Korean reporter posed as the gray-backed jackal to interview Scott. In other words, the gray-backed jackal had to do the job within two hours, before the Australian journalist returned to the cabin.
Counting the time spent going back and forth, he was only left with about ninety minutes to enter the code.
With full attention, the grayback jackal enters the code very quickly. It can be said that he has lost sight of time and has no way to think about other problems.
This is not an ordinary code, but a code used to control the flight status of Air Force One.
As long as this code works, Air Force One will lose control and crash into the open sea.
It only took ninety-one minutes for the gray-backed jackal to be typed.
After unplugging and destroying the keyboard, and incidentally destroying the interface at the input end, the gray-backed jackal walked near the control line and picked out the signal transmission line of the emergency control system.
"Air Force One" is a fly-by-wire aircraft, that is, the hydraulic press located at the moving part is controlled by electronic signals, so as to control the various movable wing surfaces of the aircraft, so as to control the flight status of the aircraft. To be on the safe side, there are a total of four fly-by-wire control systems on board that read each other, and as long as one of them is working properly, the pilot can cancel the autopilot and control the aircraft in a human way.
What the gray-backed jackal has to do is to destroy these four control systems.
At this time, the "Air Force One" was flying south in a cruising mode, so the pilot did not activate the hand control system, and even if it was damaged, he would not be aware of it.
Comparatively speaking, the job is much simpler, requiring only a few cable cuts.
After doing all this, the gray-backed jackal returned to the vicinity of the passage entrance.
This time I was lucky, the lift had just been raised, on top of the cabin. After crawling down the tunnel into the tubular compartment, the gray-backed jackal came to the restroom behind the cabin.
What made him a little depressed was that there were people in the bathroom!
After waiting patiently for a few minutes, after the big white agent left, the gray-backed jackal did not rush down, but continued to wait for about two minutes before slipping down.
Seeing that there was still plenty of time, he took it easy before leaving the bathroom.
There were more than a dozen toilets on the plane, and there weren't many passengers in the first place, so no one noticed the gray-backed jackals coming out of the toilets.
"Why did you go for so long?"
The gray-backed jackal nodded at Liu Wei, and when he saw the two Australian reporters who were busy sorting out the manuscript, he knew that he was late to come back.
"The aircrew has already come three times, it's time for us to get over." Liu Wei lifted the camera placed next to him, "Are you ready?" ”
"Everything is ready." The Grayback Jackal smiled and said, "Let's go, it's our turn." ”
"How much time do we have?"
"An hour."
"It's a little short."
"As long as you don't talk nonsense, that's enough."
Liu Wei smiled and shook his head.
At this time, the female lieutenant who had received them before came over and led the way in front very enthusiastically, taking the opportunity to introduce some rules on the plane to the two.
There are no rules, just do everything according to the orders of those agents of the Secret Service, don't be self-righteous.
What to do, the two of them knew in their hearts, and they didn't need to be introduced by the female lieutenant at all.
After arriving at the upper floor by elevator, two agents of the Secret Service stopped the two and asked them to show their documents and inspect their equipment.
Because the agent had already checked it before boarding, this time the check was relatively simple.
The president's cabin, about ten meters behind the cockpit, is a separate cabin. Although from the outside, there is nothing special, but according to Li Tingxuan's introduction, the exterior walls of this cabin are made of bulletproof materials, which can resist bullets fired by submachine guns.
Outside the cabin, two agents stood.
When they walked over, Liu Wei and the gray-backed jackal saw Capua and the others sitting in a small compartment in the back. They were all Scott's staff, so they were placed in the upper echelons.
After Liu Wei and the gray-backed jackal showed their documents again, the two agents opened the door.
Inside, Scott was sitting in a swivel chair watching a TV news report, with his back to the door, looking cozy and relaxed.
(To be continued)