Chapter 351 Crash Site

Chapter 351 Crash Site

However, shortly after the Gulfstream landed, BAU received the latest news. The fire at the crash site had been extinguished, sporadic fires were under control, and search and rescue personnel actually found a survivor.

Co-pilot Frank Canforth miraculously survived and was 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 diverted to the local hospital.

The time of the crash was around 4 pm GMT, and Colorado's time zone belongs to the Western Seventh Zone.

Therefore, according to local time, the accident occurred at around 10 a.m.

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, and 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 bodies 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.

Various vehicles were parked around the scene, including red fire trucks and ambulances, the Durango Police Department's white-painted Chevrolet police cars, 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 Rhett 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 they still need to protect themselves from dust. After all, 911 Zhuyu is ahead.

In order to make each other hear each other's voices clearly in the noisy scene, both parties could only raise their throats and get closer to speak loudly.

"How widespread is the distribution of the wreckage?" Rhett asked loudly.

"It's almost two square miles (5 square kilometers). The plane fell into five parts. The two wings, the tail, the rear fuselage, the front fuselage and the cockpit were basically concentrated around here."

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 as he took 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, Lilo Box explained.

"If it completely disintegrated in the air, the debris would be spread over a much larger area, almost covering dozens of square miles around it.

And you have also seen now that the main part of the wreckage, except for the wing that broke away first, was only three thousand feet (one thousand meters) away. Therefore, the preliminary judgment is that the plane appeared very close to the ground. Disintegrated. "

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 seat 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 the cause of each person's death.

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', and the good news is that the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder are together on this model, so we only need to find one."

This is a relatively unknown piece of knowledge, and Jack only found out about it after casually checking it 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 on their own when they can without bothering the "Almighty Encyclopedia".

Because every time he asks a question, Rhett can keep up his chatter for half an hour. Usually, after 5 minutes, no one understands what he is saying. The person asking the question cannot interrupt him forcibly out of politeness. , the situation will become very embarrassing.

It is well known that the color of the "black box" of passenger aircraft is yellow or orange-red, but few people know that depending on the model of the aircraft, 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 separately, usually at the rear of the aircraft and protected by a very strong shell.

"I feel I need to call Captain Torrance and solemnly thank him again."

The tragic situation at the scene made Jack scared for a while, thinking that if it weren't for the captain's incredible skills, even if he could cheat to save his life, he might not be able to protect Jie Jie.

"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 from the cockpit, he was thrown out along with his seat. I really can't figure out how he survived. It was a miracle."

Leo 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 passenger 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 there, which provided a certain buffer and changed the angle of touchdown."

Rhett observed for a moment and nodded, "Theoretically it's very possible."

Then his attention was drawn to a large piece of plastic carpet covering the cabin. In addition to large blood stains, there was also a large amount of dirt on it.

"Vomit? Some passengers vomited before the crash. It seems there were more than one."