On the first day UAAG arrived in the small town of Schaffhausen, Gao Yun told them that the Martha 123 flight was bought by Martha Airlines for passenger and cargo transportation. However, this does not mean that it is a passenger and cargo machine.
After an airline buys a plane, it often only makes the plane for a single purpose at the same time. For example, Donghua Airlines, which Fucheng worked for before, will first use it as a civil airliner to transport passengers after they buy a plane. When the plane has been used for ten or twenty years and it is too old, it will either be sold to other airlines or used as a cargo plane.
Passenger comfort on passenger and cargo aircraft is very different.
Of course, Martha Airlines is a low-cost airline, with cheap tickets and passengers who do not require high comfort.
Hearing Old Joseph's words, Fucheng found it incredible.
It's 2020, and he never imagined that airlines still squeeze pilots like this! This is unimaginable in China, which has extremely high requirements for flight safety.
Being a passenger plane during the day and a cargo plane at night, the pilot seems to be a perpetual motion machine without getting tired.
"Do they still have time to rest?" Fu Cheng asked.
Through the voice control of the phone, Old Joseph heard Fucheng's words, and he replied seriously: "If you insist on saying it, there is still a break. After I came to Martha Aviation headquarters to inquire about the situation with EASA investigators, I learned that they The rest time for pilots stipulated by the company is 10 hours. According to the schedule they arrange for pilots, they usually take off at 8:00 in the morning and travel to and from the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. The passenger flight ends at 4:00 pm and the cargo plane starts at 6:00. At nine o'clock in the evening, the pilots are off work."
Lina counted the time: "That is to say, their working hours are from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm..."
From get off work at nine o'clock in the evening to work at eight o'clock the next morning.
Yes, there are eleven hours of rest. However, these eleven hours do not include the pilot's travel time home, and do not include the pilot's preparations for flying the plane. If you want to take off at 8 o'clock in the morning, the pilot must board the plane one hour in advance for flight inspection. The flight ends at nine o'clock in the evening, so they will have to spend at least another half an hour to make a suspension report.
Martha Airlines gave the pilots enough rest time, and even had an hour to spare.
But the time they can really rest is probably not even eight hours!
"What's going on at Marsa Airways?"
Old Joseph hesitated for a moment, and said: "I am standing at their gate now, waiting for a special investigation order from EASA before I can continue the investigation. Martha Airlines is only willing to disclose so much information to us, but their employee list Indeed, there are no those two pilots. The five planes under their names also do not have this Martha 123. After the special investigation order is issued, people from EASA and I will take them back to the investigation headquarters in London for official inquiries.”
Zhuo Huan: "I probably already guessed what it is."
"Reid?" Old Joseph asked in surprise.
Holding the mobile phone in one hand, Zhuo Huan looked up at the vast blue sky, and slowly uttered four words—
"The Leather Bag Company."
***
Divided into two groups, Zhuo Huan arranged for Lina to collect the passenger list related to Martha Airlines, and find out those passengers who had taken the Martha Flight 123. They need to know what the plane went through when it was a passenger plane.
On the other side, Zhuo Huan and Fu Cheng returned to the candy factory together.
Investigators are still digging through the wreckage of the blast-damaged plane, identifying and sorting the nearly shattered plane parts as best they can.
Seeing Zhuo Huan and Fu Cheng come back, Gao Yun walked up and asked, "How is the situation in the hospital?"
Fu Cheng took a look at Zhuo Huan, saw that his eyes were lowered, obviously the uncle was in a bad mood today, so he replied: "The family members of the two pilots have signed the autopsy consent form, and the preliminary autopsy results should be available the day after tomorrow. "
Gao Yun nodded: "I heard that Old Joseph applied for a special investigation order to the headquarters?"
Fucheng was silent for a moment, and asked, "How much do you know about Masa Aviation?"
Gao Yun couldn't help laughing: "Major Fu, you are a pilot from Huaguo, and you haven't retired from the army for long, so you don't know much about the civil aviation industry. There are only more than 60 airlines in Huaguo, and almost all of them have national backgrounds. But Europe, don't Considering its small size, it is not much different from Huaguo, but it has more than 40 countries, and each country has at least two or three airlines. This is a conservative estimate, so there are at least more than 100 airlines in Europe. Ma Shakespeare Airlines is already a company with a name, and there are countless small airlines that are not well-known.”
In Europe, it doesn't take much official approval to start an airline. As long as you have capital and are willing to spend money, you can set up an airline.
Big ones, such as Lufthansa, have 282 aircraft.
Small airlines may only have one aircraft.
Martha Airlines owns five planes and is really a well-known airline in Europe.
Gao Yun continued: "But I don't know much about Martha Airlines. I only know that it takes low-cost passenger and cargo flights. But it must be responsible for this incident. When the special investigation order from the headquarters comes down, even if they don't Say it willingly, and we will surely know the truth.”
Fucheng nodded slightly. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a certain man stepping aside.
Zhuo Huan walked up to an investigator, put on his gloves, picked up a plane fragment and examined it carefully.
Gao Yun asked some other questions, and the two exchanged for a while. Gao Yun continued to go back to check the failure of the right engine, while Fu Cheng walked to the door of the candy factory.
"Mr. Zhuo, what are you looking at?" The clear voice of the young man came from the sound of the water hitting the slippery rocks at the Rhine Falls. Zhuo Huan paused slightly and looked up at him, "Can you tell what part this is?"
Fu Cheng looked at the maroon shard in Zhuo Huan's hand. He narrowed his eyes and observed carefully for a long time: "...it was too smashed, I couldn't recognize it."
This red fragment is only the size of a palm, and many fine parts have been broken and smoothed.
Fucheng analyzed: "I have seen the outer surface of Martha 123. It is an aircraft with a red logo on a white background. There are not many places where red materials are used in the internal parts of the aircraft. I can remember a few. None. If I'm not mistaken, this should be part of the outer surface of the aircraft. But what part... I really don't know much about ATR-72."
So he couldn't figure it out.
Zhuo Huan gave a soft "oh", he looked down at the small piece in his hand, and put it back.
"The aircraft design drawings of ATR-72 have been sent."
Fucheng looked at the man in front of him in astonishment.
Zhuo Huan raised his eyebrows at him: "Want to take a look?"
***
ATR is a French-Italian joint venture aircraft manufacturing company.
The ATR-72 is its flagship twin-propeller aircraft, with over 300 sold worldwide. It first flew in 1988 and is often used as a commercial airliner. Unlike most civil aviation airliners, its luggage compartment is at the front of the cabin, and passengers generally enter the plane from the rear of the plane.
This twin-propeller plane consumes less fuel and is lighter for shorter flights.
Uncle Zhuo uttered such earth-shattering words in such an ordinary tone, even if Fucheng was calm and calm, he was shocked to the point of being speechless.
Design drawings of the ATR-72…
Uncle Zhuo has it.
Uncle Zhuo, he has it.
Fucheng: "..."
The next moment, he couldn't help but said: "Although ATR-72 has almost ceased production, its design drawings are still commercial secrets. ATR company... directly sent the design drawings?"
Is the name Zhuohuan so influential among European aircraft manufacturers? !
Zhuo Huan slightly raised his eyebrows: "Who said it was given by ATR Company?"
Fu Cheng: "Huh?"
Zhuo Huan: "I haven't disassembled it, but someone has. According to the disassembled aircraft parts, it is roughly a restored drawing. The detail is far less than the original version, but it is enough if you want to understand this aircraft."
Fucheng: "..."
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't imagine that Uncle Zhuo was not the only capitalist dismantling airplanes in this world.
If Su Fei and Old Joseph were here, they would definitely curse in disgust: Damn rich people.
Fu Cheng was silent for a long time, then he raised his head and said with a light smile, "Okay."
If you want to investigate an aircraft accident, the best direction is to thoroughly understand the aircraft.
When I was in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, when everyone was at a loss as to how to investigate the JAL 917 case. Zhuo Huan directly turned his finger on the engine, because the plane was F435. If anyone is said to be the person who knows the best about Maifei aircraft in the world, then Zhuo Huan must be one of them.
Know too well, close your eyes as if in front of you.
So every inch and every centimeter of error is magnified to ten thousand times, clearly visible.
That sense of incompatibility and abruptness is probably the intuition of the so-called aircraft designer.
For three whole days, Zhuo Huan and Fu Cheng were studying the design drawings of ATR-72. An aircraft worth hundreds of millions has tens of thousands of parts for each component. It's almost impossible to understand it clearly. However, there is not much time left for them.
Every day, countless media pay attention to the accident investigation of Martha Flight 123. On Twitter and Facebook, the number of netizens who pay attention to this matter is increasing day by day.
Truffaut, this surname is enough to make this extremely ordinary air crash receive extraordinary attention. People are concerned about the truth about the death of the heir to a wealthy family, and they are also very concerned about what will happen to the Truffaut Group that lost the heir.
Four days after the crash, autopsy reports for both pilots came out. Fucheng and Gao Yun went to get the autopsy report together. When they returned to the candy factory, Zhuo Huan was holding a printed drawing of the aircraft parts and compared them one by one with the shattered wreckage of Martha 123.
Seeing the two of Fucheng come back, he raised his head from the pile of parts: "What's the result of the autopsy?"
Fu Cheng looked up at him, his lips moved slightly, before Zhuo Huan could speak, he understood what he meant. He sneered: "No drinking, no driving under the influence of drugs, no sudden illness, except for sub-healthy physical condition, there are no other doubts."
Fu Cheng: "...um."
This answer was boring and meaningless, Zhuo Huan looked away without hesitation. He sat on a high engineering ladder, looking up at the parts on the high shelf. The already long hair seemed to be longer. Its owner didn't mean to cut it at all, but just stroked it casually and tied it with a rough rubber rope.
"Teacher Zhuo." Fu Cheng called softly.
Zhuo Huan slightly paused the hand holding the blueprint, he lowered his head, looking down at the young man standing on the ground.
Fucheng looked at him calmly: "There is good news and bad news to tell you, which one do you want to hear first?"
Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Zhuo Huan's cold and handsome face.
"Oh? I also have good news and bad news to tell you, which one do you want to hear first?"
Fucheng was stunned.
The four eyes met, and for a long while, no one spoke first.
Gao Yun on the side couldn't bear it any longer, and said: "Then why don't we talk about it together. Major Fu, let's talk first. After we finish talking, let's listen to Mr. Zhuo. How about it?"
Fu Cheng: "Okay."
Zhuo Huan no longer looked at the wrecked parts of the plane, he sat on the top of the ladder and looked at the young man on the ground earnestly.
Fu Cheng closed his eyes, and said in a calm tone: "The good news is that after the special investigation order from EASA came down, Old Joseph met the senior management of Martha Aviation in London. Why are these two pilots not employees of Martha Aviation, Martha We now know the answer to why there is no such aircraft under the name of the airline. The bad news is..." He raised his head and looked at Zhuo Huan: "The answer is the same as what you said, simple and ridiculous."
Gao Yun was a little confused when he heard this. He looked blankly at Fucheng, then at Zhuohuan. He didn't know that Zhuo Huan had raised a possibility as early as three days ago.
But now, it was Zhuo Huan's turn to speak.
An elongated "Oh", because the candy factory warehouse is too empty, it becomes more lingering.
Zhuo Huan said in a calm tone: "The leather bag company. A company that only owns one plane. It does not have any airline qualifications, but it has established cooperation with a regular airline company. Martha Airlines will sell tickets for them and provide them with air tickets. The slots at the airport to park the planes. And all the way through, what they have…”
After a pause, Zhuo Huan said calmly: "All they have is an airplane and two pilots."
When Fu Cheng and Gao Yun heard the truth from Old Joseph's phone, they both found it very funny.
However, when Zhuo Huan said it in such an ordinary tone, Fu Cheng suddenly felt that this matter was not so unacceptable.
Air crashes are never coincidences.
When Martha 123 crashed into the mountainside, before that, thick bones had already paved the way for it to fly to hell. These bones were torn from the bodies of the victims by Martha Airlines, and they were paved one by one with the bloody bones received by the leather bag company.
It is the unsound laws and regulations of the European aviation industry, and it is the capitalists' rush.
This is never an accident.
This is a premeditated murder.
a long time.
Fu Cheng: "Yes, what about your good news and bad news?"
Zhuo Huan clapped his hands and jumped down from the ladder. He walked up to Fu Cheng: "I found the rudder of the co-pilot this afternoon."
Fucheng: "?"
Zhuo Huan: "Good news, although the data of the black box has not been downloaded yet, but based on the position where the rudder of the co-pilot finally got stuck, it can be determined that there is a 90% possibility that it was not the pilot's operation error that caused the plane to crash. Until the last moment when the plane hit the mountain , They are still trying to save, but based on my understanding of ATR-72, the co-pilot Gerald Truffaut is really not an excellent pilot, and his rescue method has not caused any change in the crash of the plane. After thinking for a while, Zhuo Huan added: "However, in the case of fatigue driving and without much experience, it is really difficult to make a correct and reasonable response at the first time."
"What about the bad news?"
"bad news?"
Zhuo Huan slowly raised the corners of his mouth, he turned around, and looked at the wreckage of the plane that filled the entire warehouse.
"Have you ever tried flying?"
Fu Cheng was stunned, suddenly an ominous premonition surged.
Zhuo Huan groped his chin: "I always feel that something is wrong... So, let's put this plane together."
Fucheng: "..."
Gao Yun: "..."
The EASA investigator who accidentally heard this from close: "..."
listen! Is this a human language? !
The author has something to say:
Zhuo Anxi: Ever played jigsaw puzzles
Fu Chengcheng: Played.
Zhuo Anxi: Then you must like to fight planes very much.
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