The Boeing 777's VHF communication system provided line-of-sight communication with voice and data for the crew. It provided communication between planes and ground stations. It was the only way for planes to communicate with the outside world. Now that the plane was above the vast sea, the blue sea was clearly visible. Now that the communication with the outside world was gone, everyone could not help but panic.
"Who has a satellite phone?" Jiang Cheng suddenly asked. Because he knew that there was no signal on the phone at this time. If a phone wanted a signal, there must be a base station. How could there be a phone signal in the vast Indian Ocean? The only thing that could contact the outside world was a satellite phone.
Everyone shook their heads. Robert said, "I'll ask the passengers if they have one!"
After that, Robert hurried out. But at this time, everyone knew that the plane was bound to make a forced landing. Without fuel, it was impossible for the plane to land at the airport. It was also impossible for a tanker to refuel like in American blockbusters. It was even more impossible for a large transport plane to rescue everyone like in Hollywood blockbusters. Because this was just a civil plane, and it was a plane that had been cut off from the outside world.
Everyone's faces were very ugly. Jiang Cheng said to Du Yuan, "Old Du, now the lives of more than 400 people on the plane are all in your hands. Whether the plane can make a safe landing depends on you!"
Du Yuan also frowned. It was not easy for such a large passenger plane to make a forced landing on the sea. He had been trained to fly a transport plane for a while, but he had never made a forced landing on the sea. Moreover, there were more than 400 lives on the plane. Du Yuan was not confident at this time. He said with no confidence, "Now we can only do our best and leave it to fate."
Jiang Cheng also knew that it was a critical moment. It was a matter of life and death. He turned to a stewardess waiting outside and said, "Go immediately and ask all the passengers to put on life jackets, then sit in their seats and fasten their seat belts. Tell them that the plane is going to make a forced landing on the sea!"
The stewardess's eyes widened. She felt that it was unbelievable. She had been flying on this flight for four years, and she had never encountered such a situation. Terrorists hijacked the plane, and two lone heroes rescued everyone. Now the plane was going to crash. This was almost like a Hollywood blockbuster.
The stewardess did not dare to delay. She immediately ran out of the first-class cabin and asked all her colleagues to help put on the life jackets for the passengers. The life jackets were under the seats. Many people who had been on the plane many times knew this common sense. They had already put on the life jackets after Jiang Cheng had finished speaking. When everyone had put on the life jackets, Jiang Cheng came to the business class.
At this time, there was nothing for him to do. Now the plane was controlled by Du Yuan and the novice pilot. Jiang Cheng could not help much. He returned to the business class, took out his life jacket and put it on. As soon as he put on the life jacket, Robert ran in from the economy room with a huge thing like a mobile phone in his hand. He walked up to Jiang Cheng and said, "Mr. Jiang, I borrowed the phone, but there is not much battery left. That person just used it to talk to his family about his funeral. Now the remaining battery is probably only enough to make a phone call. Mr. Jiang, do you have anything to say to your family? Hurry up! "
Robert also felt very helpless. This time, he was ordered to track down a few outlaws, but he didn't expect that the outlaws wouldn't appear, and instead, they would fight with the terrorists. Robert was extremely depressed in his heart, cursing in his heart, what the hell was going on! The moment he borrowed the satellite phone, he realized that the phone's battery had run out. After asking, he found out that the phone's owner had been talking to his family and had used up all the battery. Robert was alone and had nothing to worry about. The first person he thought of was this Chinese man whom he had met by chance and fought side by side with. He had stayed in China before and knew that the most important thing for the Chinese was filial piety. That was why he gave the phone to Jiang Cheng so that he could contact his parents. This might be the last phone call he would ever make.
Jiang Cheng grabbed the satellite phone from his hand and rushed to the first-class cabin with Li Shiya. When they came to the cockpit, he took the satellite phone and asked the captain, "Mr. Captain, where are we now? What is the latitude and longitude? Who should I call to report our location? "
When the captain saw that Jiang Cheng had really found a satellite phone, he could not help but be overjoyed. He grabbed the satellite phone and dialed a number. After a few seconds, the call was connected.
"Hello, this is the control tower of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. May I ask where you are?"
"I am Captain Jerry Lee of Malaysian Airlines flight MH377. We are now at 7.845 degrees north latitude and 77.452 degrees east longitude. Our plane is about to make an emergency landing in the sea near here due to running out of fuel. We are in urgent need of rescue, urgent need of rescue!"
Captain Lee almost shouted. After he finished shouting, the satellite phone automatically shut down due to low power. When the operator at the control tower heard that it was a call from the missing flight MH377, he could not help but be shocked and shouted into the phone, "Hello, hello, hello, is what you said true? You are flight MH377? Hello, why are you not talking? "
However, what answered him was not the captain's urgent call for help, but a dead tone of the phone. The operator did not dare to delay and immediately reported the matter to the person in charge of the control tower, saying that the missing flight had been found.
The person in charge was very surprised and asked, "Found it? Where are they now? "
"They are now over the Indian Ocean at 7.845 degrees north latitude and 77.452 degrees east longitude. The captain said that their plane has run out of fuel at this moment and is about to make an emergency landing in the sea. They are asking for our immediate support."
When the person in charge heard the first news, he was in an extremely happy mood, but after listening to the second news reported to him by the operator, his mood suddenly fell to the bottom. His mouth was wide open, and he subconsciously replied, "What did you say? Emergency landing? "
The person in charge did not hear wrongly. The news was true, and what the operator said was also true. However, whether the phone call was true or not was no longer important at this moment. He immediately told the news to his superior, who was also surprised and happy when he heard it. He immediately reported the news to the Minister of Security who was waiting for news at the airport.
After the Minister of Security heard the news, he immediately ordered, "Immediately send a water rescue team to the destination for rescue!"
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In the cockpit, Du Yuan and the captain named Jerry Lee were now fully focused on controlling the plane. Jiang Cheng found that the plane had descended to a height of 2,000 meters at this moment, and the Indian Ocean below was clearly visible. If every passenger on the plane was equipped with a parachute, it was estimated that half of the passengers on the plane could survive at this moment. There was basically no danger in parachuting at a height of 2,000 meters, but it was different at sea. Many people who parachuted would forget to remove their parachutes after entering the water, and then get entangled by the parachute, suffocate in the water, and then suffocate to death.
However, on this kind of civil aircraft, there were only life jackets, no parachutes. Now that the plane was about to make an emergency landing, Jiang Cheng also did his best. He took Li Shiya back to the business class, sat back in their seats, fastened their seat belts, and waited for the moment of emergency landing.
Everyone on the plane was in position. All the passengers sat in their seats, fastened their seat belts, and did not dare to move. Just now, the stewardess had already loudly told everyone that the plane was about to make an emergency landing. There would definitely be a violent impact at the moment of landing, and the fuselage of the plane was very likely to be dismembered. No one knew how many of these more than 400 fresh lives would survive in the end.
People who believed in Christianity were praying non-stop at this moment, Catholics were crossing their chests, and Buddhists were putting their palms together and chanting Amitabha. Everyone was praying to Heaven, praying that they could be safe. Li Shiya was no exception. She was also praying to Buddha, hoping that Buddha would bless her and Jiang Cheng to be safe.
Jiang Cheng held her hand tightly with a smile and comforted her, "Shiya, it's okay. We'll be fine. We still have to go to Paris and treat your illness. You haven't given birth to a child for me, and I haven't given birth to a child for our Jiang family. We won't die!"
Li Shiya seemed to feel the calmness in Jiang Cheng's heart. She smiled slightly and said, "Well, we will definitely be fine!" After that, the two of them held each other's hands even tighter.
At this time, there was a sorrowful atmosphere in the cabin. The men were praying to Buddha, the women were praying to Heaven, the timid ones were crying loudly, and the optimistic ones were even laughing. Everyone reacted differently in the face of death.
At this time, in the cockpit, Du Yuan was sweating profusely. He stared at the sea and the data on the dashboard. The altitude and speed were decreasing rapidly. Du Yuan glanced at the young pilot beside him and asked, "Are you ready? We are about to make an emergency landing. When I say release later, you stabilize the fuselage for me. Do you understand? "
"Yes!" Jerry was ready to risk everything at this moment. He knew what he was doing. He and the old pilot were now saving more than 400 lives on this plane. The lives of more than 400 people were in the hands of the two of them at this moment. If there was any mistake during the emergency landing, the plane would disintegrate. At that time, it was very likely that no one on board would be spared.
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