"Dear passengers, this is Korean Air Flight 007 from New York to Seoul, South Korea. Now, we are passing through a short stay in Alaska and we are about to take off again. Please wear your seat belts. Our plane is about to take off. Took off."
In international aviation, the straight-line distance is not necessarily the shortest. For example, if you want to fly from New York to the capital of South Korea, you do not fly directly across the Pacific Ocean, but first go north and then fly back to Alaska.
This can make full use of the advantages of high latitudes, make the aircraft's route shorter and save a lot of fuel. At the same time, it is also convenient for refueling in the middle. If it is across the Pacific Ocean, it is too difficult to find a place to refuel.
At this time, the Boeing 747 passenger plane was preparing for takeoff. The captain, Piao Zhengyi, dressed in a neat uniform, sat in his seat, watching the deputy captain Qian Bing-in orderly flipping the switches, and then , The engines on both sides roared.
Two years ago, Park Zhengyi flew a Boeing 707 passenger plane and overcame a navigation failure. With the help of an American, he successfully saved the lives of the plane and the entire crew.
After returning home, Park Zhengyi was commended by Korean Air. At the same time, he was qualified to fly to a Boeing 747 from the few places.
This is the 44th flight of Park Zhengyi. As an experienced captain, Park Zhengyi is very satisfied with his current life.
Park Zhengyi watched the scenes on both sides of the runway retreating quickly, and then the huge Boeing 747 flew off the runway as soon as the fuselage was lighter.
This is a large-scale commercial wide-body passenger aircraft developed by Boeing in the late 1960s. After its appearance, it has been dominating the flight record with the highest passenger capacity for decades.
At the same time, as the most suitable flight platform, it is also suitable for the U.S. Air Force to transform into a variety of military aircraft, such as early warning aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft, aerial tankers and so on.
Now, as the plane took off, Park Zhengyi breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, being the captain was the easiest thing to do. Everything was done by the deputy captain on his side.
This is the first time the deputy captain has come to partner with Park Zhengyi, but his take-off technique is quite good, and he is definitely a veteran. To be honest, flying a passenger plane is simply too easy and simple.
He stretched out his arm and shouted to the back: "Bring me a cup of coffee."
Following the sound, a girl in a stewardess uniform walked in, holding a cup of coffee steadily in her hand and handing it to Park Zhengyi.
The Boeing-747 is a very stable flight, even if you drink coffee in the cockpit full of various instruments and switches, there is no problem.
"Stabilize the direction and fly to 245." Park Zhengyi said to his deputy captain, and then he picked up the coffee cup beautifully.
"Understand." The deputy captain manipulated the compass skillfully and fixed the position at 245 degrees.
At this time, the passenger plane was flying steadily at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
Alaska, US Air Force "King Salmon" radar station.
"How did this civil airliner deviate from the course?" a radar soldier said.
Through the friend or foe identifier, you can identify your own aircraft and enemy aircraft, and at the same time, you can also identify ordinary passenger aircraft. Now, the flight path of this passenger aircraft has been deviated.
"There is only a difference of 20 kilometers, don't care about it, maybe the passenger plane pilot has neglected." Another radar soldier said.
They are military aircraft used by the Air Force to monitor the sky. Although they can clearly see this type of civil aviation aircraft on the radar, they have no control rights and no obligation to issue warnings.
There are air traffic control on the ground. Didn’t the air traffic control personnel find it
The initial course deviation, after a long route, will appear huge deviation, just like two rays, starting from the same point, but the direction is slightly different, the further forward, the greater the deviation will be.
However, the air traffic control seemed to have overlooked it. When the Korean Air flight was shown on the air traffic control radar, the error was only ten kilometers. The air traffic control glanced at it and began to greet other aircraft.
Ten thousand meters high in the sky, Flight 007, which had already experienced a course deviation, flew towards his unknown fate.
"What is your hand shaking?" After drinking the coffee, Park Zhengyi glanced at his deputy captain. At this time, the deputy captain's hand was on the middle throttle lever, and he was trembling slightly
Qian Bingyin showed a smile: "Really? I just hummed a song from my hometown in my heart. Before I knew it, my hand moved."
Park Zhengyi also laughed: "Rock and roll are popular these days, can you sing rock songs? When the flight is over, let's go to KTV to sing a song and take our flight attendant with us."
After that, Park Zhengyi made an expression that you understand to Qian Bingyin. The captain and the stewardess have many stories that have to be told.
"Okay." Qian Bingyin replied easily.
The passenger plane continues to fly forward. As time accumulates, its route has already shown a clear deviation. It should have flown from the southern waters of the Kamchatka Peninsula, but now its course has been aligned. The southern land edge of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Kamchatka Peninsula borders the Sea of Okhotsk to the west, and the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea to the east. It is the second largest peninsula in the Soviet Union. There are volcanoes all over here and the climatic conditions are not suitable for human habitation. Fishery is the only important economic activity, especially coastal crabbing. There is also a small amount of agriculture and cattle and reindeer herding.
The permanent population on the entire peninsula is very small. At the same time, its strategic location is very important. On this volcanic-prone peninsula, there is a Soviet ICBM position.
At the same time, the interceptor unit and long-range surveillance radar unit of the Homeland Defense Air Force are also deployed here.
At this time, near the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a large radar station, the radar is constantly rotating, in the radar room, a Soviet radar soldier is constantly looking in front of him Radar screen.
"A target was found and broke into our air defense identification zone." The radar soldier shouted: "It is flying over us, immediately report to the superior!"
Soon, in a nearby air defense base, a Su-15 interceptor rolled off the runway and quickly took off. The tail was sprayed with flames, and the Capsule fighter began its own interception.
At the same time, on the radar soldier's screen, the target is still flying towards its own side. No, the Su-15's movements are too slow. If only there was a MiG-25!
The interceptor is a special type of Soviet aircraft. For the vast Soviets, a fighter that can directly attack the target at a speed of more than Mach 2 is very important.
Now, when the Su-15 slowly lifted into the air, the target had already flew past the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula and disappeared on the radar screen.
Immediately notify the rear that its route is facing Sakhalin Island! (End of this chapter)