Chapter 48(2/3)
Fucheng frowned.
Obviously he knew that what this woman said must be wrong.
The 411 flight of Ahanghai uses a Boeing 777 aircraft. This plane is a well-deserved giant in the air, with a row of ten people in a row, with a layout of 3-4-3. The 65J seat that the woman was sitting in was about ten meters away from the wing. Looking at the wing through the small window, because the reference objects were different, the reference objects after takeoff were a vast sky. If it were really a fragment the size of a fingernail, she would never see it, and would only be swallowed by the boundless sky in an instant.
This is a typical visual error. She cannot tell the size of the fragments.
"Do a practical experiment."
Fucheng turned his head and saw Zhuo Huan leaning against the back of the chair with his arms in his arms. He noticed Fucheng's gaze, he raised his eyes and said to him: "Let's find Emirates Airlines directly, arrange for her to board the plane, and look at it again."
Lina found Maiha and tactfully asked him for UAAG.
Maiha agreed immediately: "Do you need to take off?"
Fucheng: "No, just board the plane directly. Then arrange a repair car. We have to stand on the rocker arm of the repair car for field experiments."
Maiha laughed and said, "Haha, that's even easier. Of course, it doesn't matter if you need to take off a plane. This is an Afghanistan air crash, and Afghanistan can cooperate."
Fucheng raised his eyebrows.
He suddenly realized that the wealth of these people may be far beyond his imagination.
Since we were just going to do a static experiment, we soon took a bus to Dubai International Airport. There, Ahanghai stopped two Boeing 777s and placed them in the repair warehouse.
After hearing Zhuo Huan's request, Ahang sent a staff member to cooperate with their work.
"I really don't need to take off, just drive to an open place? We plan to repair these two Boeing 777s, one of which is planned to continue to use, and the other has been signed and will be sold to Dubai Airlines after repair. So the second one cannot be used casually, but the first one can be used casually. We can arrange to install oil and takeoff experiments at any time."
Lina translated the words of this Ahang employee to everyone.
Su Fei widened his eyes: "This horse-drawn horse is not expensive to fuel? Take off is not expensive? Why do you feel that it is easier for them to fly a plane than if I go out for a meal?"
Fucheng: "Maybe in Ahang's eyes, the cost of driving a plane is no different from the cost of going out for a meal in your eyes."
Su Fei: "..."
These tyrants in the UAE are not human!
Of course, this time was just a simple experiment. You only need to drive the plane to a wide field of view and make the sky a reference, and you don’t need to actually fly the plane.
Lina took Betty and Su Fei on the plane. On the other side, Fucheng and Zhuo Huan stood on the rocker arm of the repair car. After they stood firm, the pilot activated the rocker arm and sent them to the right wing of the plane. At this time, Fucheng looked towards the plane's cabin, and saw Su Fei standing at the small window of seat 65J and waved him hard.
Through the intercom, Lina's voice sounded: "It's almost this location. She said it should be in this place. She saw fragments flying out."
The rocker's arm suddenly stopped. Zhuo Huan did not hold the railing because his hands were inserted into his pocket. As the inertia was in effect, his body suddenly fell backwards. He immediately took his hand out of his pocket. Before he could touch the railing, he held his arm firmly and pulled him back with one hand.
When I raised my head, I was surprised and caring eyes of the young man.
"Teacher Zhuo, is it okay?"
Zhuo Huan looked at him calmly and curled the corners of his lips: "Yes."
Determine the location and the experiment will begin.
Fucheng prepared many black iron sheets of various sizes, and he wanted to put them on the wings in turn to let Betty confirm. However, he had just picked up an A4 paper-sized iron sheet and was about to put it on when suddenly, a warm body leaned on his back.
The body suddenly froze.
He didn't leaned up completely, but just leaned forward slightly, leaned against him and stood up.
Fu Cheng was silent for a moment: "Teacher Zhuo, what are you doing with me?"
Zhuo Huan's voice was faint: "I'm afraid of falling down again."
Fucheng: "The rocker arm is not moving now, it is fixed."
"What if it moves."
“…”
Fucheng: "Hold on the railing."
Zhuo Huan: "Oh, don't help, it's dirty."
Su Fei's face appeared in front of the window, and he looked at the two people ten meters away. From his perspective, he could not see the two of them tightly pressed together. Similarly, because of the height, the old Joseph and Ahang personnel standing on the ground could not see clearly what they were doing.
Su Fei picked up the walkie-talkie: "Hey, Brother Fu, why haven't you started yet?"
Without caring about this man leaning against him, Fu Cheng put the A4 black paper on the wings expressionlessly.
In the airplane cabin, the survivor with tired eyes leaned against the window, looking at the wings flying in the blue sky by the window, just like twenty-three years ago.
The next moment, Lina's voice rang out from the intercom: "She said she didn't look like it."
After about seven experiments, I found the fragment the size of a fingernail in Betty's mouth.
The rocker arm of the repair car buzzed, and Fucheng and Zhuo Huan returned to the ground together.
Old Joseph held the A5-sized iron sheet: "Have you ever seen such a big fingernail?"
Lina: "If the Blue Whale had fingernails, maybe it could be so big?" After the words came, Lina turned her head and stayed on Fucheng and Zhuo Huan for a moment. She curled her red lips and said, "Okay, then let's go back to the investigation headquarters."
The sudden witness brought a new turning point to the closed Ahanghai 411 air crash. However, the witness could provide very few clues. What she said from beginning to end was to see such a "small" fragment that predated the engine explosion, flew off the wings in advance, and sought freedom.
Fucheng asked a few more questions carefully, and Betty was very involved. As long as she asked, she would definitely answer them. But she could never remember many things for twenty-three years. The only thing she remembered was fresh, as if it was engraved on her brain was that "little" fragment.
After the inquiry, Maha sent Betty out of the GCAA headquarters. Fucheng looked at her back and disappeared between the tall buildings.
Lina: "It is said that in half a month, she will be deported back to Yemen."
Fucheng turned around and looked at her.
Lina said casually: "Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world. Maiha told me that twenty-four years ago, she was kept by a Dubai businessman and came here to be his mistress. It was a pity that five years later, the wealthy businessman abandoned her. She refused to leave here and return to Yemen, so she became a prostitute. In a few years of youth, she would work as a dishwasher and cleaner, barely paying the document fee and rent to smuggle the snakehead. Last month, the snakehead was caught and paid out her and many smugglers. She should have been deported to Yemen last month, and then she said this and was bailed by the GCAA people and could stay in Dubai for another month."
Old Joseph sighed: "Would you rather be a prostitute than go home? No matter how bad it is, there is a home."
What Su Fei is more concerned about is: "I knew that she must be very beautiful when she was young! I see her eyes very beautiful."
After a moment of silence, Fucheng said: "Beauty born in poverty may not be a good thing."
Everyone returned to the investigation headquarters.
All the information was sorted out, and ninety-six information boxes were placed on metal bookshelf, waiting for someone to read.
Zhuo Huan: "Everyone, read all these information."
UAAG everyone: "..."
Zhuo Huan raised his eyes: "Including the investigators sent by GCAA to re-invest the accident."
Maiha et al.: “…”
Maiha stood up and wanted to ask for a relationship for his colleagues, such as not reading those unnecessary information. However, Zhuo Huan looked at him first and spoke: "When will the people from the NTSB arrive?"
Maha's expression suddenly froze on his face.
Seeing his reaction, Zhuo Huan raised an eyebrow.
Maiha said awkwardly: "Well, Mr. Patrick, I haven't told you about this. NTSB... Actually, we didn't tell them, and new witnesses appeared."
Everyone at UAAG was stunned.
Zhuo Huan: "This is a Boeing aircraft, and the NTSB is qualified to intervene, and there are 66 Americans on board, including 4 victims."
Maiha: "This matter is quite complicated. First of all, it is related to smuggling. There was a problem with the investigation of the personnel identity of the Immigration Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration. This..." He hesitated for a long time, "This is a scandal. A smuggler ran away under our noses and was not discovered. Once it was reported, it would definitely affect the image of the government." It would also affect the person in charge at that time.
Zhuo Huan sneered: "It's the reason for this stupidity?"
Maiha was stunned. He thought for a while and slowed down his voice: "This is also protecting the survivor. Once the public knows that she clearly saw clues of the accident twenty-three years ago, she did not provide them and would definitely be condemned. The families of the victims may also make things difficult for her."
Zhuo Huan stopped his smile and stared at Maha without saying a word.
Maiha wiped the sweat from his forehead and whispered: "And... Maybe after investigation, it was found that the appearance of this witness did not affect the results of the investigation that year? Maybe it would be the same ending?"
Zhuo Huan's mouth smiled sarcastically, and he mocked: "The cause of the accident released by the Ahanghai 411 air crash in 1998, NTSB and GCAA was that a blade of the low-pressure engine had an accidental mass problem with a very low probability. The blade broke and was wounded into the engine, causing the engine to explode..."
"Tell me, before the engine exploded, someone saw a piece of debris as big as your face flying out above the wing. It doesn't matter if it's an accident?!"
"How did you get into GCAA, tsk, idiot."
Maiha's face turned red and his body trembled. After Zhuo Huan said that, he threw away his sleeves, and the door slammed hard on the door frame, making a loud bang.
Fucheng's eyes sank, and he stepped up and chased after him.
Lina immediately said, "Sorry, Reid didn't do it on purpose. He is so unkind. However, I can't understand why you didn't make this public or even tell the NTSB that we investigated together. The NTSB had rich experience in investigating the incident. Their database must have a lot of information about this accident, even if you don't have it."
Maha felt his face burning. He had lived for almost forty years and had not been scolded like this for a long time. He said embarrassedly: "I don't blame Mr. Patrick, but this incident is really complicated. There is smuggling, and he also wants to protect witnesses..."
Lina smiled gently and said, "Is there really a reason to protect witnesses?"
Maiha was stunned. He slowly looked up and looked at Lina, his mouth opened but could not say a word.
On the other side, Fucheng chased after Zhuo Huan the next moment he grabbed the door, but Zhuo Huan walked too fast. When he arrived at the corridor, he only saw the other party's back strode away.
Fucheng searched for a while before finding him on the balcony on the second floor of the GCAA headquarters.
Relying on the marble railings, there is a vast blue ocean in the distance. As the waves surging, snow-white seagulls break out of the waves.
Zhuo Huan was smoking a cigarette while looking indifferently at the sea and seabirds in the distance.
Fucheng looked at him for a while and walked over.
"Teacher Zhuo, Maiha is just an investigator. He does not disclose clues and does not contact NTSB. This is not up to him. What's the use of being angry with him?"
To be continued...