Ye Qing got up and rushed back to the headquarters of Skynet Airlines.
Because Shizhou City Jianping Airport in Insignia Province had sent an urgent message for help, the content of which he had never seen before.
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Shizhou City in Insignia Province was located on the edge of Mount Huangshan, which was known as the World Geopark. The average altitude there was more than 500 meters above sea level, and thousands of meters high mountains could be seen everywhere.
The continuous heavy snow turned the city into another white scenery.
It also brought a lot of trouble to the traffic in Shizhou City.
There was an airport and two train stations in Shizhou City. The train stations were okay because the snow covered the railway, but each train station was equipped with a snow-shoveling locomotive. As long as a large shovel was installed on the locomotive, the entire railway could be cleaned.
This would bring some delay to the railway, but compared to the airport, the railway was considered a blessing.
Shizhou City Airport was built in the mountains. Even if there was no heavy snow, Shizhou City Airport had always been the airport in the west of Jiangnan. It was the airport with the most complicated take-off and landing conditions.
This airport didn't even have the international standard runway 4F because the wind often exceeded the standards, so there were requirements for the type of aircraft taking off and landing. For example, large aircraft didn't have the conditions to land at this airport.
Now that the heavy snow didn't stop, Shizhou City Airport had to be closed.
The closure of the airport affected the passengers the most, especially now that it was the Spring Festival. Which passenger who came to Shizhou City for sightseeing was not anxious to go home?
These passengers were not only domestic passengers, but also a quarter of them were foreign passengers.
Shizhou City was close to Mount Huangshan, and needless to say, Mount Huangshan was famous. There were a lot of foreign tourists at any time of the year. It was close to the Spring Festival, and many foreigners felt that they could not only see the scenery of Mount Huangshan, but also enjoy the Spring Festival unique to Hua Xia. It was killing two birds with one stone.
Unfortunately, Mount Huangshan was blocked by the sudden heavy snow. They couldn't see the scenery, and they were trapped at the airport again.
Shizhou City Airport was anxious.
The airport manager, Xu Qianyang, had been at the airport for three consecutive days. Now on the only runway of the airport, there were not only professional snow and ice removal vehicles, but also many airport staff using tools to clean up the areas that the machines couldn't reach.
There were eight boarding seats and eight planes parked there.
There were also staff around these planes, removing ice and snow from the fuselage at any time.
However, the heavy snow didn't stop. At the same time, the wind direction and the position of the runway were different.
There were already more than ten thousand passengers at the airport, and there were even more who were staying in various hotels in the city. In order to settle the more than 10,000 stranded passengers at the airport, the local airport and the government specially organized more than 200 volunteers to give free boxed meals, foldable beds, and blankets to rest on.
The basic necessities could be solved, but the anger in the hearts of the passengers could not be solved.
The originally clean and tidy She Zhou Airport had become a wet market. Everywhere was a mess. The physically and mentally exhausted passengers simply found an open space to sit down and put their luggage aside as a temporary settlement.
"I don't want to hear your explanation, and I don't want your free lunch. I just want to go home. Tell me when the plane will take off. "
"If you can't take a plane, then give me a train ticket."
"Why didn't you arrange a hotel for us? It's clearly your fault for canceling the flight, but you made us wait at the airport. Are you unwilling to pay for the hotel room? "
"Coming here to play is the worst trip I've ever had in my life. I want to post my experience on my circle of friends and let everyone see the unscrupulous behavior of She Zhou Airport."
Every time the airport staff tried to calm the emotions of the passengers, the passengers would always seize the opportunity to bombard the staff's ears with a loud enough volume.
The airport manager, Xu Qianyang, didn't even have the courage to go to the hall to calm the passengers because yesterday he was almost blocked by angry passengers in a corner. He could only hide in the airport tower and pray that the heavy snow would stop soon.
Of course, he didn't pray for the snow to stop. Instead, the documents of the civil aviation department came one after another.
From the beginning of the inquiry to serious criticism, and finally the focus of the criticism in the industry.
It could be said that She Zhou Airport had become the breakpoint of this Spring Festival.
That evening.
The phone in the command room of the She Zhou Airport tower kept ringing. There were reports from various departments of the airport, and there were also questioning calls from the outside world. The airport manager, Xu Qianyang, answered one call after another.
The phone had just hung up. The worried manager, Xu Qianyang, didn't even have time to look at the heavy snow outside the window. The secretary hurried over and whispered in his ear, "Manager, Mr. Mayor personally called and asked you to answer."
"Again?" The manager, Xu Qianyang, was so angry that his cheeks puffed up. He felt wronged and helpless. "Is there an end to this? What's the point of bullying a small manager like me?"
"I haven't moved from the airport for three days. What else does he want? Does he want to kill me?"
"Manager, please calm down. It's not that the mayor doesn't understand your helplessness …"
The secretary said it nicely, but as soon as the manager, Xu Qianyang, picked up the phone, the mayor didn't even give him a chance to speak. He immediately scolded him fiercely.
"Xu Qianyang, I don't care what method you use. The airport must resume operations tomorrow morning."
"Our She Zhou Airport is famous now. The Leader's Office of the Spring Festival Work has called us three times today. Just now, the Civil Aviation General Administration sent a document and severely criticized our She Zhou Airport."
"This is an irresistible factor, mayor." The manager, Xu Qianyang, was so anxious that his eyebrows were knitted together. He shouted, "This heavy snow won't stop. How do you want me to operate the airport?"
"Is it more important to be criticized or the safety of the passengers?"
"Come on, then tell me, why is it that Jinling Airport is also snowing heavily, but they can fly their flights out?"
"Why is it that the other airports in Insignia Province are also snowing, but their planes can fly in the sky?"
"Mayor, you don't understand."
The manager, Xu Qianyang, argued, "Other airports have many runways. Some of them are even divided into T1 and T2 terminals. Their runways are all located in different directions, which just happens to meet the requirements of crosswind and upwind take-off and landing. "
"Our airport only has one runway. Now there is a crosswind over the airport. I have cleared all the snow on the runway, but in this visibility, which airline dares to fly?"
"Which plane dares to guarantee that their aircraft engine will not absorb the flying snow, which will cause the combustion temperature of the combustion chamber to decrease and the thrust to decrease?"
The manager, Xu Qianyang's argument almost made the mayor speechless.
He naturally didn't understand these professional things, but he understood that it was best not to try to use the plane to prove whether these theories were correct or not.
After saying a few harsh words, the mayor had no choice but to hang up the phone.
Then, as soon as the phone hung up, the bell in the control room rang again.
This time, it wasn't the phone that rang. It was the radio communication station.
Since yesterday at the airport, everyone worked hard and finally ensured that a few flights took off. Until now, there had been no movement from the radio communication station all day.
After all, the airport was closed.
Many departments in the tower were idle. The manager, Xu Qianyang, mobilized these people to participate in the work outside to fight against the ice and snow, leaving only the personnel in important positions to work overtime.
Now there was a signal call.
"Calling the tower, this is the Skynet Aviation Banshee 109 aircraft."
"We have submitted a flight application before and want to land at your airport to deliver a batch of SF Express airmail, but the control has not replied to us."
"Please send us the detailed weather information of the airport. We have applied to land at your airport."
"If you approve, we can take off from Zhongyun Headquarters Airport in ten minutes and fly to your airport."
The liaison officer glanced at the control officer who had skipped work and ran out to clear the snow, and then replied listlessly, "Don't come. The airport is closed. Now the crosswind has reached 19 knots. Your kind of aircraft must be very ordinary in resisting crosswind. "
19 knots was the unit of speed. The airport often used knots to represent the wind speed. One knot meant that the wind speed was one nautical mile in one hour, which was similar to the speed of a ship.
For example, the Airbus 320 aircraft had a maximum crosswind limit of 15 knots during the test flight. If the wind speed exceeded this speed, the aircraft might lose control in the crosswind.
"Only 19 knots?"
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