Chapter 6 Disaster
"This is Flash 019, now the altitude is 5000, the speed is 330, and the direction is 210, and it is finished." Xu Jun reported his flight data to the radio navigation station.
"Flash 109, we've seen you on the radar, please keep the altitude and turn to 180. Keep your current altitude. Finished."
"Flash 109 understands. Turn 180."
Xu Jun turned the scale of the compass to the steering position. According to the plan, Xu Jun will fly directly to Paris after refueling from Strasbourg, France. This is the longest period of the entire flight. For this reason, he also added a 300-liter secondary fuel tank to the me109 to increase the safety factor. In order to reduce the burden on the aircraft engine, Xu Jun deliberately reduced the engine speed and flew at a speed slightly faster than the cruise speed. Originally, the flight to Strasbourg was quite smooth, but the summer monsoon that blew from the sea to the inland after the course turned to Paris gave Xu Jun a lot of trouble. Flying against the wind forced Xu Jun to increase the accelerator slightly, but the speed was still much slower.
"It seems that it's time for dinner when I arrived in Paris. I wonder what delicious food the French would treat me?" Xu Jun thought happily. "I didn't expect this plane to be stronger than I thought. Maybe this flight would be completed smoothly. But the old fox lied to me and made me fly over half of Europe with fear. It's absolutely unforgivable."
Just as Xu Jun suddenly realized that the sound of the engine began to pause slightly. "No, I just praised you, you made me a problem. It sounded like there was something wrong with a cylinder, and the power was not as good as it was at the beginning. Now I can only hope that the fault will not worsen again." Xu Jun began to be nervous: "There is no way to open the throttle and maintain speed first. I hope it can reach Paris quickly. After landing, I have to check it immediately." It's really a disaster. The engine failure here has not been solved yet. Then he found that the rear fuselage began to tremble slightly. A odor of burning wires and rubber began to spread in the cabin. "It seems that there is a big trouble. This damn broken plane, that damn old fox."
Xu Jun felt that the situation was not right: "This is Flash 109, this is Flash 109. If the plane fails, 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. It seemed that he had to find a place to make a landing. Xu Jun made up his mind and immediately threw away the secondary fuel tank and began to drop the height. Smoke began to come out from the driver's seat. Xu Jun quickly brought an oxygen mask and goggles, put some throttle, and pushed the cāo lever forward, and swooped down quickly. Now you have to make a landing soon, otherwise when the smoke in the cabin becomes thicker, you may not be able to see the ground clearly even if you want to make a landing.
You may wonder why Xu Jun didn't expect to abandon the plane and jump to the parachute. The reason is very simple. It's not that Xu Jun didn't have a parachute, but because he never jumped over the parachute, let alone climbed out of the cockpit of such an old plane and jumped. So for Xu Jun, a forced landing may be safer than a parachute.
"Now the height has dropped to 2,000 meters, it's almost done," Xu Jun began to cheer himself up: "I won't die so easily."
The plane was still descending rapidly. The houses and trees on the ground could be seen clearly. Through the smoke, Xu Jun found a large area of farmland ahead.
"Just make a landing there. Hahaha, I'm really lucky." Xu Jun quickly put down his flaps and started to slow down, but before he could celebrate his good luck, he suddenly...
"Submarine?...ah!!! Get out of here!"
Boom!
On the same day, many residents near Troyes, France saw a fireball suddenly exploded in the low altitude in the north, and then decomposed into pieces and fell to the nearby farmland. Local inspectors rushed to the scene of the accident after receiving the report from residents and found some of the wreckage of a small aircraft and some of the body of the pilot. After investigation and identification, the essence determined that this was the wreckage of the missing me109, and the identity of the body was confirmed. It was indeed the brave young Chinese pilot Xu Jun. European countries expressed their condolences for the death of the brave pilot.
Afterwards, the government agencies conducted a thorough analysis and research on the wreckage of the aircraft and the tape in the flight recorder (that recorder is the only modern instrument allowed by the director on the aircraft), and found some illogical and contradictory phenomena, and there were great differences between experts. Until the end, no one could give a reasonable explanation of the exact cause of the accident. The death of the young Chinese pilot became a mystery, especially the last shout of Xu Jun on the tape made later scholars puzzled. What happened that day at the last moment of his life?
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Chapter completed!