54: Control tower, I have successfully completed the crossing and am about to return!

A fireball!

It really was a glowing red iron sphere!

The girl's mother thought she was hallucinating and tried to rub her eyes hard to see more clearly.

However, when she clearly caught sight of the long tail flame left by the red iron sphere again, the girl's mother's brain stopped working for a moment.

The children's tender voices also attracted others around them.

Many passengers sitting near the windows pushed open the heat shields with a mix of doubt and belief, looking out at the clear blue sky through the thick glass windows.

But the next second.

Everyone who saw the scene outside the window was petrified, frozen in their seats.

They saw a stone, like a meteor, whistling past from diagonally below the plane! The stone was pitch black, covered in raging flames, and its speed was so astonishing it made people click their tongues.

"Quick, everyone look! There really is a fireball!"

"A fireball? It looks more like a meteor, doesn't it?!"

"Don't joke around, can you see meteors around a plane? If it accidentally scrapes us, it'll be a plane crash and all lives lost. Airlines wouldn't let something like that happen!"

"But I really saw that red flame just now!"

"I don't think that thing is a meteor, because it flew up from below the plane. It looks more like a burning flying object!"

Inside the cabin, the passengers were in a chaotic mess.

Having flown for so many years, they had never seen such a sight during a flight! They didn't know what had happened, whether the outcome would be good or bad?

And those passengers who liked to record their lives, some had already taken out their phones in advance to capture this precious and bizarre scene.

Just as the cabin was in a chaotic uproar, the sweet voice of a flight attendant came over the plane's broadcast.

"Ladies and gentlemen. The aircraft will encounter strong convective air ahead, and there may be severe turbulence during the flight."

"Please fasten your seatbelts, stow your tray tables, and prepare yourselves in advance!"

"Expected duration of turbulence, approximately twenty seconds."

In the cockpit upfront.

First Officer Zhang Qiandong had the cabin crew issue another safety reminder.

Currently, the plane was completely locked, and all they could do was try their best and leave the rest to fate!

But just as Zhao Long watched the plane get closer and closer to the black speck ahead.

Suddenly, there was a violent tremor from the tail section of the plane.

Immediately after, he discovered that the originally locked manual operating system had become unlocked under the intense shaking!

"Quick! Operate the plane to gain altitude!"

Zhao Long exclaimed, his hands quickly operating the controls!!

At the same time.

Their eyes were fixed on the small black speck ahead, trying to control the plane's flight path in the shortest possible time.

However, just as they pulled the stick.

A large black iron sphere, carrying raging flames, flashed past from below them!

If he wasn't mistaken, the purpose of this suddenly appearing large fireball was very clear: to intercept the small black speck flying towards them from ahead!

"Damn it, Brother Long, what is that thing! It looks like it's going to collide with the flying large bird ahead of time!" Zhang Qiandong exclaimed.

Zhao Long's expression became stern!

"Don't worry about that, quickly get the plane to fly up to avoid the impact of the explosion's aftermath!"

The two stopped speaking.

In this final critical moment, they still had a glimmer of hope!

...Control Tower.

Watching the two small red dots on the weather radar about to collide, all the ground crew present had bloodshot eyes.

Everyone bowed their heads, unable to bear looking at the cruel scene.

There was no way!

They had all done their best!

The Control Tower had even gone beyond its usual procedures to accomplish what it could!

But a few minutes ago, flight m734 had completely lost radio contact with them.

The ground personnel called out again and again, but could not receive any signal from the other party.

They couldn't even manage to get a final few words from the pilot.

Live broadcast room at the competition site.

Everyone at this moment looked up at the sky, seemingly trying to peer through the layers of the sky to see the final silhouette of M734.

The rocket model had flown to this point, and the camera mounted inside it had long since been completely burned away.

They couldn't see the rocket model's first-person perspective, but they could see the small iron block, the plane, and the large bird spreading its wings and flying, through the electronic telescope's perspective!

As the distance between the three visibly shortened.

Everyone held their breath at this moment!!

Pfft!

Everything happened in a flash!

There was no sound, but through the electronic telescope's image, everyone seemed to simultaneously hear that crisp collision in their minds.

The small iron block, like an incredibly hard screw, instantly pierced through the large bird spreading its wings and flying.

And the large bird instantly turned into a blood-red mist, covering the sky for tens of meters around!

M734 followed closely, plunging headfirst into that hazy blood mist... The transparent glass in front of the cockpit was covered by the sky-high blood mist, making it impossible to see anything ahead.

The "thump thump thump thump" sound was like rain hitting banana leaves, coming from their ears yet making them feel exceptionally at ease!

Zhao Long slowly released the control stick he was gripping tightly.

He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt like crying!

Beside him, Zhang Qiandong also stared blankly at the blood mist in front of the plane's glass, watching it change from dense to thin.

Tears unknowingly streamed down, wetting the dark uniform of Huaxia Wuhang on his chest.

They survived!

They did not collide with the anticipated large bird.

After a violent jolt, the plane, like an arrow piercing through clouds, tore through the bloody sky and was reborn!

...Control Tower.

The ground control center was dead silent.

The oppressive, sorrowful emotion was like an invisible large hand, squeezing everyone present so they couldn't breathe. It was as if taking a breath would cause the scalding liquid to flow reverse up their windpipe and into their lungs.

Today was destined to be a bloody mark in Huaxia's flight history.

People would forever mourn this disaster today!

Wuhang M734.

Carrying 230 personnel.

On February 2, 2022, the second day of the Lunar New Year, flying from Wucheng to Jingdu, it encountered a large bird strike at an altitude of ten thousand meters in the airspace near Jingdu, leading to... Just as the Control Tower staff were about to broadcast this painful and sad news to all flight schedules.

Suddenly.

A harsh static sound crackled through.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle, sizzle sizzle sizzle"

"Sizzle, Control Tower Control Tower, sizzle sizzle sizzle"

"This is M734, sizzle, I have successfully passed through the bird strike, sizzle sizzle sizzle, currently returning!"

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle, sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle"

"Control Tower Control Tower, this is M743! Reporting again, I have successfully passed through the bird strike area and am safely returning!!"