Chapter 264 Thrilling!

The crumbling Airbus A340 struggled hard in the sky, its two failed engines dragged long thick smoke, and various parts that had fallen from the fuselage were flying all over the sky.

Ground crew members at Griffith Air Force Base ran out of the hangar, stood outside, and looked up at the passenger plane trailing thick smoke thousands of meters away.

The base alarm sounded, the Marines boarded the Black Hawk helicopter, the helicopter pilot pulled the joystick, and the Black Hawk helicopter took off.

Dozens of soldiers rushed to the Hummer, got in, and drove straight out of the base at high speed. Firefighters in the Air Force base drove a fire rescue vehicle, left the base, and drove quickly towards the direction where the A340 passenger plane crashed.

The Rome municipal government urgently dispatched a medical rescue helicopter to Griffith Air Force Base, and a large number of state police drove towards the air force base with sirens on.

Irina, who was in the office on the 67th floor of Building B of the Twin Towers in Manhattan, received the organization’s urgent request for help at the first opportunity, and immediately dispatched a team of agents to provide support and capture the murderer.

She stood by the French window, looking up in the direction of Rome. Her heart was hanging in the air at this moment. She was worried about the safety of Roy and the Hellhound brothers.

Maggie threw away the Stinger launcher in her hand, looked at the Airbus A340 that was losing altitude in the distance, and let out a long breath.

Roy raised his telescope and looked toward the source of the thick smoke in the sky.

“Help! Help! Help!” the co-pilot of the Airbus A340 shouted frantically into the microphone.

Various fault indicator lights on the dashboard flashed wildly, accompanied by harsh and rapid alarm sounds.

The co-pilot activated the emergency backup hydraulic system, and the backup hydraulic system start indicator light came on.

“Hydraulics are working!” the co-pilot shouted.

“I see it!” the captain shouted back, looking at the rising hydraulic gauge.

“Can you control the plane?” the co-pilot asked loudly.

“There’s a reaction!”

The backup hydraulics were activated and the captain tried hard to control the aircraft to keep it balanced.

“1000 feet! Oh my God, the altitude is too low, we are going to crash!” the co-pilot shouted.

“Airport, airport, do you see the airport?”

“No, I didn’t see anything!”

boom–

There was an explosion!
The fuselage shook violently twice.

“what happened?”

“do not know!”

“Damn it, I can’t control the pitch!”

“what happened?”

“do not know!”

“Are the hydraulics still there?”

“Have!”

“That means the horizontal tail has fallen off!”

The experienced captain immediately guessed that there was a problem with the horizontal tail. Just as he said, the violent shaking that just happened was caused by the broken tail rivets and the horizontal tail breaking and falling off.

Now, the situation is more critical than before.

The two engines on the right side failed, the main and auxiliary hydraulics failed, and it was unknown how long the backup hydraulic system could last. Alarms rang in the cockpit, the cabin lost pressure, the electronic equipment was severely damaged, the rudder was stuck, and the horizontal tail was broken.

In this situation, unless Superman comes, otherwise…

“Help! Help! Help!”

The A340 circled half a circle in the air and the captain finally saw the runway. He tried to adjust the thrust of the two engines on the left side, trying to align the huge passenger plane with the runway. Everyone in the cockpit knew that they only had one chance.

“Lower the landing gear!” the captain shouted.

The co-pilot pulled the landing gear down switch…

The mechanic and the co-pilot stared at the landing gear indicator light. Only when the indicator light came on did it mean that the landing gear had been lowered.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds… 8 seconds…

The landing gear light still did not come on.

“Damn it, the landing gear won’t come down!”

“and many more!”

“Have it!”

There were two take-offs and landings that were put down.

Located under the wings on both sides.

However, the landing gear indicator light below the cockpit did not light up.

“Lebio, go and manually lower the front landing gear!”

“Yes!”

The mechanic stood up from his seat with difficulty, his body swaying from side to side with the shaking and trembling of the fuselage, and then he fell to the ground with a thud.

He lay on the floor and tore off the carpet, revealing the cover leading to the lower cabin. He lifted the cover and climbed in.

After a difficult crawl, he finally reached the front landing gear bay.

The mechanic took out the crank, inserted it into the groove, and started cranking it hard.

click-

The front landing gear moved.

The mechanic was delighted to see that it worked.

As the handle turned several times, the huge landing gear protruded from the fuselage, and then under the help of gravity, the landing gear was slowly lowered.

In the cockpit, the front landing gear in place indicator light suddenly lit up.

“That’s it!” the co-pilot yelled.

The captain glanced at the indicator light out of the corner of his eye, then shouted: “Flap 15 degrees!”

“Flap failure!”

“Damn it, our rate of descent is too high!”

“There is no other way, we only have this one chance!”

After lowering the front landing gear, the mechanic turned around and tried to climb back to the cockpit, but when he was halfway up, the fuselage suddenly shook violently. This shake caused him to lose his grip and fall down. His body hit the ground heavily and bounced up, and then he was ejected out of the cabin.

He shouted in terror: “Ah! Help!”

Who can save him at this time?

The mechanic fell rapidly from the air.

Under the control of an experienced captain, the A340 actually flew towards the runway of the air force base, but because it had no horizontal tail, its flight trajectory was erratic, and it would immediately climb rapidly after a high-speed dive.

The agents in the cabin were like on a trampoline, being tossed around, hitting the roof of the cabin and falling to the ground.

At this moment, European Organization No. 1 was already in a panic. The fear of death instantly surged into his heart, his heart rate suddenly accelerated, and an expression of fear instantly appeared on his face.

Charlotte was also a little frightened at first, but he soon accepted the reality and stopped struggling internally. Instead, he sat calmly in his seat. He tried to find a cigarette in his pocket, but he was unable to do so because his hand injury was too severe.

“Cigarettes, do you have any cigarettes?” Charlotte asked loudly to the agent sitting next to her.

The two men were wearing seat belts and were relatively stable.

The agent took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it in Charlotte’s mouth, and his hands were shaking when he used the lighter to light it.

Finally, in the violent turbulence, the cigarette in Charlotte’s mouth was lit. He took a deep breath, the smoke entered his lungs, and he exhaled slowly. Then he turned his head to look out the window. He seemed to see Maggie standing in the distance waving at him.

Then Charlotte saw Irina again…

“Are you still worried about me going back?” Charlotte murmured with a slight smile on her face.

“Less than 500 feet!”

In the cockpit, the co-pilot shouted.

At this moment, the ground proximity alarm in the cockpit sounded: “Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!”

“Captain, we have too much fuel and the fuselage is too heavy!”

“Release the fuel!”

The first officer flipped the fuel release switch.

The intact left wing began to release large amounts of yellowish anti-aircraft fuel to the rear.

The airport fire brigade, which had already left, immediately drove back when they saw the passenger plane was about to land on the airport runway.

I have to say that these two pilots are very capable.

If an ordinary pilot were in this situation, he would probably be destroyed and killed in less than half a minute, but these two pilots had lasted almost 3 minutes.

The Airbus A340 stumbled towards the runway. Without a horizontal tail, the aircraft’s altitude could not be effectively controlled. The captain could only slightly control the pitch angle by controlling the thrust of the engine on the left wing that was intact and functioning normally.

However, using thrust to control pitch cannot ensure inconsistent thrust on the left and right sides, and the fuselage will tilt to the right.

The captain also has to steer the aircraft to offset the right-leaning torque.

And all this depends on experience.

Above the sky, the smoke trails left by three Stinger missiles were still hanging in the sky. The initial position of the smoke trails was where the missiles were launched.

The military vehicles that had previously driven quickly across the bridge turned around and returned under unified command.

The end of the runway at the air force base…

The badly damaged airliner staggered and tried to land.

“Pull up, pull up, pull up!!!” the captain shouted frantically.

“Pull up!”

“We’re so fast!”

“Pull up!”

“Increase engine thrust!”

“No, we only have one chance to land, we can’t take off again!”

“Ah! What is that?”

Wind shear suddenly appeared, and an upward airflow blew the passenger plane, which was originally rising and falling, upwards.

At the same time, a Black Hawk helicopter flying from nowhere suddenly appeared on the left side of the passenger plane’s nose.

“We’re done!”

The captain and the co-pilot both protected their eyes with their arms.

In one thousandth of a second, the A340 passenger plane and the Black Hawk helicopter collided head-on not far from the airport runway.

boom–

A huge ball of fire rose up.

The blown-off parts flew everywhere like flowers from heaven, and the rear half of the passenger plane fell into a river outside the airport.

This horrifying scene was seen by everyone in the airport.

Agent No. 53 of the North American Organization stared blankly at the huge fireball that appeared in the sky. He stood there in a daze, dumbfounded.

The staff at the airport tower were all stunned.

“What was that just now?”

“It seems to be a Black Hawk helicopter we just took off…”

“Why is Black Hawk there?”

“They should be going to support the periphery!”

“This……”

I am confused. Completely confused.

The brigadier general commander of Griffith Air Force Base’s eyes widened and beads of sweat gradually formed on his forehead.

Everything that happened before his eyes was simply unbelievable to him.

Just now, the commander thought the passenger plane had a chance to land on the runway. His heart was tense, and after seeing this scene, he almost had a heart attack.

In this situation, it is impossible for anyone to survive.

That means that the big guy in Europe…

Someone swallowed his saliva on the spot. This happened on his territory. If the higher-ups blamed him, not only would he die, but his whole family would suffer.

All the fire trucks headed for the river.

The huge fireball rising in the distance was reflected in Maggie and Roy’s pupils. Seeing the passenger plane explode in the air, Maggie was completely relieved.

She turned around and walked straight to her car: “Let’s go!”

Roy took one last look at the fireball in the air, then turned and followed Maggie away.

However, at this moment, three police cars suddenly appeared at the entrance of the bridge. Seeing this, Maggie drew her gun and started shooting.

At this moment, it was either you die or I die. Roy did not hesitate at all. He quickly pulled out the pistol from his waist and shot.

Bang bang bang bang bang——

Before the people in the first car could stop and get out, Roy’s bullet penetrated the windshield and blew up the heads of the people in the driver’s and passenger’s seats.

He and Maggie walked forward, firing.

A dense rain of bullets hit the body of the patrol car. The people in the car behind quickly pushed the door and got out, but were pinned behind the door and unable to move.

Roy threw out the magazine, replaced it, and continued shooting…

The bullet penetrated the car door, hit the opponent’s bulletproof vest, and knocked the person behind the door to the ground.

Maggie’s pistol shooting skills were also excellent. The two of them used pistols to shoot continuously, alternating between changing bullets, and they overwhelmed the two enemy vehicles so that they couldn’t even raise their heads, even though the other side was holding shotguns and AR-15 rifles.

Walking to the car, Maggie took out two grenades from the car, bit open the pull ring with her teeth and threw them out directly.

Gollum-

The grenade fell to the ground and rolled under the car door.

The person on the other side looked down and immediately screamed:

“Grenade!”

boom–

There was an explosion.

The second patrol car’s fuel tank exploded and it was blown away on the spot.

Roy was wearing a hood and no one could recognize him.

“Get in my car!” Roy yelled to Maggie.

“Ok!”

Maggie rushed to the passenger seat of the car driven by Roy, opened the door, and at the same time, she was reloading and shooting to suppress the enemy’s firepower.

Roy threw a grenade casually.

boom–

The grenade detonated the third vehicle.

Get in the car, shift gears, and reverse sharply.

He drove the car past the first police car, did a beautiful drift, then shifted into D gear and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

The rear-wheel-drive tires rubbed violently on the concrete floor of the river, thick smoke rose up, and the next moment, the car burst out.

At the scene, six or seven people were lying in a mess…

Roy and Maggie had just left less than a hundred meters when three returning military Hummers drove onto the bridge and stopped urgently.

An American soldier leaned half of his body out from the roof of the car and used the heavy machine gun on top of the Humvee to shoot at the car driven by Roy.

Bang bang bang bang bang——

The sound of the heavy machine gun was very dull.

The heavy machine guns on top of the other two Humvees also began firing.

Maggie took out the detonator calmly and pressed it in front of Roy.

boom–

There was a violent explosion in the off-road vehicle under the bridge.

The high-energy explosives directly destroyed the entire bridge. One of the Hummers was blown into the sky and turned upside down in the river.

Two other Humvees were also completely destroyed in the explosion.

Roy saw this through the rearview mirror, then turned to look at Maggie: “How much stuff did you bring?”

“It’s gone, all blown up!” said Maggie.

At this moment, several state police patrol cars appeared on the road above the river, and these patrol cars drove parallel to the cars in the river.

In the distance, two Black Hawk helicopters were heading straight towards this side.

Roy said to Maggie, “Wait, I will pass through the farm in front and crash into the cowshed. I will not slow down. You jump out of the car there and I will attract their attention!”

(End of this chapter)