Chapter 351 Crash Site
However, shortly after the Gulfstream landed, the BAU received the latest news. The fire at the crash site had been extinguished and sporadic fires were under control. The search and rescue personnel actually discovered a survivors.
Co-pilot Frank Canforth miraculously survived and is currently on his way to the local hospital. Hotchner made a prompt decision and ordered Jack and Red to continue rushing to the scene, while Jie Jie and Emily Transferred to local hospital.
The time of the crash was around 4 pm GMT, and Colorado’s time zone belongs to the Western Seventh Zone.
So according to local time, the accident occurred at about ten o'clock in the morning.
When Jack and Red arrived at the scene, less than two hours had passed since the incident, and it was still noon.
The plane crashed in a deserted Gobi desert. It took nearly an hour for the emergency rescue team and NTSB (Federal Transportation Safety Board) personnel to arrive at the scene.
What appeared in front of the two people at this time was a terrifying scene of doomsday.
The wreckage of the plane and the corpses of the passengers were scattered along the crash trajectory, covering an area of several kilometers. The air was filled with an unpleasant smell of burning and volatile aviation fuel.
There were various vehicles parked around the scene, including red fire trucks and ambulances, the Durango Police Department's white-painted Chevrolet police car, and a black refrigerated corpse truck from the local coroner's office.
An NTSB officer named Lelo Box received the two people. He was wearing an ordinary 3M mask. It seemed that as previously reported, the fire caused by the plane crash did not last long.
Jack and Red also wore 3M masks. Burning will cause a lot of toxic gases and dust. This is an open area, so there is no need to worry about toxic gases, but you still need to protect yourself from the dust. After all, 911 Zhuyu is here forward.
In order to let each other hear each other's voices clearly in the noisy scene, the two parties could only raise their throats and get closer to speak loudly.
"How widespread is the distribution of the wreckage?" Rhett asked loudly.
“Almost two square miles (5 square kilometers), the plane broke into five parts, two wings, tail, rear fuselage, front fuselage and cockpit, basically concentrated around this area .”
While Lilo Box was speaking, he used a red pen to draw circles on an aerial photo of the site map, mark the locations of each wreckage, and then handed it over.
"In other words, the plane almost disintegrated before hitting the ground?" Reid asked after taking the map.
"It can be said that it has disintegrated, but it has not completely disintegrated." Seeing that the two of them were a little confused, Lillo Box explained.
“If it completely disintegrates in the air, the scattered range of the wreckage will be much larger, almost covering dozens of square miles around.
And you can see now, the main body of the wreckage Except for the wing that broke away first, the furthest distance was only 3,000 feet (one thousand meters). Therefore, it is initially judged that the aircraft disintegrated at the moment it was very close to the ground."
As the three of them talked, they had already walked into the scene. Lillo Box pointed at the horrific corpse at the scene and continued.
“As you can see, the bodies of some passengers were tied to their seats by seat belts. This shows that the accident did not happen suddenly. At least most people had time to fasten their safety belts before the danger occurred. "
Rescue and cleanup crews were busy all the time. Some of them were picking up body fragments and marking them, while others were removing the wreckage and trying to find survivors.
Others are using stretchers to carry the victims with relatively intact bodies into corpse trucks and transport them to a unified location, where forensic doctors from all over Colorado will gather to analyze each person's death. reason. This will play a very important role for the NTSB in reconstructing the scene based on the photos afterwards and analyzing the cause of the accident.
"We are still searching for the 'black box'. The good news is that the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of this model are together, so we only need to find one."
This is a relatively unknown one. Jack only found out this little bit of knowledge after casually searching on the Internet during his flight.
Nowadays, in order to prevent Rhett from getting into a state of blabbering, everyone has developed the habit of taking the initiative to learn by themselves when they can avoid troublesome "all-round encyclopedia".
Because every time he asks a question, Rhett can keep up his chatter for half an hour, and usually after 5 minutes, no one understands what he is saying. The person asking the question is out of politeness You can't interrupt him forcefully, otherwise the situation will become very embarrassing.
We all know that the color of the "black box" of a passenger aircraft is yellow or orange-red, but few people know that depending on the model, sometimes there is one "black box" and sometimes there are two.
The flight data recorder will work when the engine is on or after the aircraft leaves the ground, automatically and in real time recording the aircraft's flight status parameters and engine operating status parameters.
The cockpit voice recorder is responsible for recording various sounds between the captain and co-pilot, between the captain and the air traffic controller, in-cabin announcements, and in the cockpit, including engine sounds and various alarm sounds.
The two devices are sometimes installed together, sometimes installed separately, usually at the rear of the aircraft, protected by a very strong shell.
"I think I need to call Captain Torrance and solemnly thank him again."
The tragedy at the scene made Jack scared for a while, thinking that if it hadn't been for the captain, With his incredible skills, even if he could cheat to save his life, he might not be able to protect Jiejie.
"Where was the surviving co-pilot found?" Jack's soliloquy was not heard by Rhett, who continued to ask the NTSB officer loudly.
"Just 20 yards away from the cockpit, he was thrown out together with his seat. I really can't figure out how he survived. It was a miracle."
Lelo Box pointed to a place not far away, where there was a large hole dug by the machine's nose in the ground.
Jack looked at the separated co-pilot seat outside the cockpit, and then looked up at the tall iron tower dozens of meters away. All the high-voltage wires on it were torn off.
“Maybe before the nose of the plane landed, the co-pilot base was thrown out, and then happened to catch the high-voltage wire over there, which acted as a buffer and changed the angle of touchdown.”
Rhett observed for a moment and nodded, "Theoretically it is very possible."
Then his attention was attracted by a large piece of plastic carpet spread in the cabin. In addition to the blood stains, there was also a large amount of dirt.
"Vomit? Some passengers vomited before the crash, it seems there were more than one."
(End of Chapter)