Chapter 6: Disaster
"This is Flash 019, now height 5000, speed 330, direction 210, over." Xu Jun reported his flight data to the radio navigation station.
"Flash 109, we already see you on the radar, please keep the altitude and turn to 180. Maintain your current height. Complete. ”
"Flash 109 understood. Turn to 180. ”
Xu Jun shifted the scale of the compass to the direction of turning. According to the plan, Xu Jun will fly directly to Paris after refueling from Strasbourg, France, which is the longest section of the entire flight, so he also added a 300-liter fuel tank to this ME109 to increase the insurance factor. In order to reduce the burden on the aircraft's engine, Xu Jun deliberately lowered the speed of the engine and only flew at a slightly faster speed than the cruising speed. Ben's flight to Strasbourg was quite smooth, but when the course turned to Paris, the summer monsoon blowing inland from the sea gave Xu Jun a lot of trouble, and the headwind flight made Xu Jun have to increase the throttle slightly, but the speed still slowed down a lot.
"It seems that it is time for dinner when I arrive in Paris, and I wonder what delicacies the French will serve me?" Xu Jun thought happily. "I didn't expect this plane to be sturdier than I thought, maybe this flight will be completed smoothly." But the old fox deceived me and made me fly half of Europe in fear, which is absolutely unforgivable. ”
As soon as he thought of this, Xu Jun suddenly noticed that the sound of the engine began to pause slightly. "No, I just praised you, and you gave me a problem. It sounds like something is wrong with one cylinder, and the power isn't as good as it was at the beginning. Now there is only hope that the failure will not worsen. Xu Jun began to get nervous: "I have no choice but to open the throttle to maintain the speed first, I hope to get to Paris quickly, and I have to check it immediately after landing." It was a real disaster, the engine failure here had not been resolved, and then he noticed that the rear fuselage began to tremble slightly. The cabin began to smell of burning wires. "Looks like there's a big problem, this damn broken plane, that damn old fox."
Xu Jun felt that the situation was not quite right: "This is Flash 109, here is Flash 109, the plane is out of order, please guide me to the nearest airport to land." ”
There was no answer. Xu Jun was anxious, and changed several bands to call continuously, but no one answered him. Xu Jun realized that the radio might be broken. Looks like I'm going to have to find a place to make a crash landing. Xu Jun made up his mind, immediately threw away the auxiliary fuel tank and began to descend in height. Smoke was already coming out from under the driver's seat, Xu Jun hurriedly put on an oxygen mask and goggles, and after retracting the throttle, he pushed the cāo longitudinal lever forward and quickly dived downward. Now you have to make a forced landing, otherwise when the smoke in the cabin thickens, you may not be able to see the ground clearly even if you want to make a forced landing.
You may wonder why Xu Jun didn't think of abandoning the plane and parachuting in such a dangerous situation. The reason is very simple, it is not that Xu Jun does not have a parachute, but because he has never jumped from the parachute, let alone climbed out of the cockpit of such an old plane, so it may be safer for Xu Jun to make a forced landing than to parachute.
"Now the altitude has dropped to 2,000 meters, it's almost there" Xu Jun began to cheer himself up: "I won't die so easily." ”
The plane is still rapidly descending altitude. He could already see the houses and trees clearly, and through the smoke, Xu Jun saw that there was a large area of farmland in front of him.
"Just crash land there. Hahaha, I'm really lucky. Xu Jun hurriedly put down his flaps and began to slow down, but before he could celebrate his good luck, he suddenly ......
"Submarines? …… Yes!!! Get out of the way! ”
Bang!
Many residents in the vicinity of Troyes, France, saw a fireball suddenly explode in the low sky to the north, and then disintegrate into pieces and fall into nearby farmland. After receiving a report from a resident, the local detective rushed to the scene of the accident and found part of the wreckage of a small plane and part of the body of the pilot. After investigation and identification, Jing Fang determined that this was the wreckage of the missing ME109, and the identity of the body was also confirmed, and it was indeed the brave young Chinese pilot Xu Jun. Countries across Europe have expressed their condolences over the death of the brave pilot.
After a thorough analysis and study of the wreckage of the plane and the tape in the flight recorder (which was the only modern instrument allowed to be installed by the curator on the plane), a number of illogical contradictions were uncovered and experts were divided, until in the end no one could give a reasonable explanation for the exact cause of the accident. The death of the young Chinese pilot has become a mystery, especially the last cry of Xu Jun on the tape, which has puzzled later generations of scholars, what happened in the last moments of his life.
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