1memories of survivors of the 5.8 air crash of China southern airlines in 1997

On the evening of May 8, 1997, Chongqing Airport. Jiang, a 49-year-old businessman, kept the driver who took him to Hong Kong. "What's the hurry? Let's go to eat first. Even if the plane crashes, at least I am a dead ghost. " He said. In short-21:20, when CZ flight CZ3456 with 74 people including Jiang landed at Shenzhen Huangtian Airport (now renamed Bao 'an Airport), the violent vibration made people unprepared. Jiang, who was sitting in row 16 by the window, even bounced up and hit his head in the luggage compartment above the seat.

"In the harsh roar, the plane bounced three times on the runway." Jiang recalled, "The ceiling of the corridor cracked and hung in mid-air, and the floor of row 15 bulged, which caused an exclamation of passengers."

The "black box" circulating on the Internet afterwards recorded the details of the plane crash-including the first landing, when the engine room began to call the police. There was a panic in the cockpit, and the passengers were even more flustered. Jiang looked out of the window, and the two windows inside and outside the plane were staggered, and the inner window slipped down. The seats in rows 10 to 16 began to shake like cradles, and strong winds wrapped in raindrops the size of soybean grains poured directly into the cabin from the gap.

"The plane is deformed, and I can only live for a few minutes!" Jiang flashed such an idea. This information should also be recorded by the black box: CZ3456 cannot fly normally due to the deformation of the body. Jiang unbuckled his seat belt, held the back of the chair, fled to the back of the cabin, and sat on the left side of the aisle in the last row. Then, five people stumbled to the rear of the plane. The plane's black box is here, and they are close to it, far from death.

As the plane is not full, all passengers are arranged behind the sixth row. The man in the front seat tried to escape behind him, but he was stopped by the flight attendant. The plane tilted forward and began to land, and the cabin was quiet. After about 5 minutes, suddenly a woman exclaimed, "I don't want to die!" " "

12 minutes after the recording of the black box, there was finally a cry of despair in the cockpit.

The plane that crashed in the rainstorm disintegrated. Jiang and others escaped from the cabin. Behind them, the wreckage of the tail of Boeing 737 was lying on the ground like a huge chimney, while the middle part and head were broken, nearly 100 meters apart; Especially in the middle section, smoke billowed out, and a red flame more than ten meters high was lit above the smoke, illuminating three pieces of aircraft wreckage scattered on the grass. No one knows where the black box has rolled-it may still be in the engine room, but it must be intact-the relevant institutions have stipulated its production standards, which must be fireproof, pressure-resistant, impact-resistant and seawater-resistant.

Five men and four women, including Jiang, became the luckiest people because they ran to the back of the plane ahead of time.

"We are still alive!" Jiang shouted to everyone. He looked at his watch: 2 1: 40.

"It is meaningless to investigate the reasons."

Two cars picked up nine survivors respectively-the first one took two flight attendants and the other group was seven passengers. After seeing a doctor, it is a closed investigation.

"Outside the hospital where we live, several policemen walk around and don't let others in." Jiang said, "But three reporters from Chongqing somehow got in. Some survivors quickly told reporters to hide the things they interviewed, otherwise they would be driven out by the police. "

In the early morning of May 9th, five men knocked on Jiang's door. The tour leader claimed to be Zhao, director of the Criminal Investigation Department of shenzhen public, to learn about the situation when the plane crashed. "They took notes all night before they left," recalled. "Since then, no one has asked us the details of the plane crash." Zhang Ying from the Finance Department of China Southern Airlines visited him every day, but did not ask about the crash site.

At the scene, the search for the black box also began. There are two kinds of black boxes: one is a flight data recorder, which records all flight data, including speed, direction, altitude, cabin pressure, etc. The other is the cabin recorder, which records the voice of the crew. When the plane crashed, no one lives, they can help solve the mystery of the cause of the plane crash.

The "black box" circulating on the Internet is the latter. After staying in the hospital for 7 days, I asked Jiang to go back to Chongqing. He received compensation from China Southern Airlines, which was about 20,000 yuan. Since then, Jiang has never seen six other people who escaped from death. Jiang, who had experienced life and death, didn't ask the reason of the air crash again. "Airlines are still responsible for us. If the pilots are wrong, they have already taken this mistake with their lives, and I forgive them. " He said.

At the beginning of 2008, Jiang got the news that the "5.8" air crash "black box recording" appeared on the Internet. After reading this most important message, many people scolded the pilots: "It was their wrong judgment that led to the plane crash." However, Jiang didn't listen to the "black box recording", but just looked at the transcript of the recording in front of the computer. "It makes no sense. 10 years have passed and everyone is dead. " He even made excuses for the pilots. "The captain saved our lives. If he hadn't parked the plane on the lawn, we might all be dead. "

Ten years of "muddleheaded"

Jiang never went to see the scene of his escape again. But for some relatives of the victims, they hope to capture the last shadow of their loved ones from any clues. The day after the injured were admitted to the hospital, two minibuses drove into the scene of the airport accident. The cry of the sky came and the relatives of the victims were in the car. But they are not allowed to get off the bus, so they can only open the window and watch. The wreckage of the plane has been carried away. Every five minutes, a plane takes off and lands from its head, and the sound of air churning and motor is deafening.

On May 9th, 1997, Zhang Yang and his mother Zhang Ying saw the news of the plane crash in the news. /kloc-When he was 0/0 years old, he burst into tears-his father Zhang Yongsheng took this flight.

1997 may 10, unfortunately confirmed. The mother and son were surrounded and received the Xili Lake Resort in Shenzhen. Here, Zhang Ying officially received the passenger death notice from China Southern Airlines. On the following 10 day, Zhang Yang and his mother began to face up to the disaster: after seeing the scene of the accident, they recognized the body, got the relics, signed the agreement and got the compensation. ...

Every day, airline personnel will come to comfort Zhang Ying. But she wants to find out the cause of the accident, meet the survivors and talk about what happened that day. None of these requests were answered, and she couldn't even find the opportunity to talk to the families of other victims-every family member of the victims was taken care of by someone; Talk to the airline about after-care compensation, and everyone will be separated. 10 days later, she signed an agreement with the airline. This is a one-time settlement agreement between the family and the airline. She returned to Chongqing with her husband's ashes and 6.5438+0.4 million yuan compensated by the airline.

"The agreement wants us to stop asking questions, which seems to erase the husband from the plane crash." Zhang Ying said.

10 years later, the airline didn't tell her the cause of the accident and didn't let her see the survivors of the accident. Although she called China Southern several times, she didn't want to ask.

His son Zhang Yang began to pay attention to civil aviation. He goes to the runway of the airport every month to watch the plane take off and land.

On May 8th, 2007-the 10th anniversary of his father's death, he posted "Ten Zhou Nianji in the May 8th air crash" in the forum of civil aviation enthusiasts to commemorate his father who died in that accident. Soon, someone sent the "air crash black box recording" to his mailbox. Zhang Yang and his mother finally learned the "truth" of the accident through the mail of strangers. But so far, China Southern Airlines and other relevant departments have not made it clear that this circulated version is true or false.

By the time he got the "black box recording", Zhang Yang was already a sophomore in a university in Chengdu, and he had been fascinated by civil aircraft for nearly ten years. "This is entirely due to the driver's misjudgment, not aiming at the runway, and going around after the impact." He thinks. On the night when the secret was about to be revealed, he couldn't restrain his inner excitement. He turned off the lights in the room, turned off the computer screen, put on headphones, closed his eyes in the dark and listened quietly to the "recording" of 12 minutes and 44 seconds.

He listened and simulated the flight in his mind. For a long time after that, he tried this situation again and again in front of the computer with a simulated plane. The same speed, the same angle, let the plane rush to the ground: landing, impact, damage; Let's come on, knock down the door. Rush, land again, disintegrate ... It's a pity that China Southern still didn't tell him whether this recording is true or not. (Zhang Ying is a pseudonym in the text)

On April 1 2008, the Civil Aviation Administration of China gave a written reply to China Newsweek about the "5.8" air crash black box. The following is the original reply.

The cockpit sound (recorded by black box) is a true record of the cockpit sound, which can only be used for accident investigation and may not be announced to the public. The G Convention on International Civil Aviation and relevant laws and regulations clearly stipulate this.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China believes that the practice of releasing the cockpit sound of an accident aircraft without authorization seriously violates the provisions of the international civil aviation convention and relevant laws and regulations, and is irresponsible to the victims of the accident and their families. Without the permission of the accident investigation department, no organization or individual may release accident investigation data without authorization. Any organization and personnel who release accident investigation data without authorization will be investigated.

Tribute 10 year

1On the night of May 8, 997, Shenzhen was shrouded in a storm. Just after 9 o'clock, flight CZ3456 from Chongqing began its final approach in heavy rain. ...

After three consecutive approaches, the fuselage disintegrated and flames soared, killing 33 passengers. In a blink of an eye, ten years later, the lawn that was once baked by burning jet fuel still showed yellow spots-this once green land never grew grass after this tragedy. ...

I was only 10 years old that year. When I learned the news of the plane crash on TV at noon on the 9th, my tears suddenly came out, because my father was on the plane. Although we learned from the news that only 33 of the 73 people on the plane were killed, the silence on the other end of the phone last night has given us a bad feeling.

Nevertheless, when I was in the fourth grade of primary school, I went to school on time in the afternoon, but when I came home from school, I found more depressed anger than at noon. The narrow living room was crowded with relatives, and my mother's eyes were red and swollen. When I came back, she told me calmly-pack my things and go to Shenzhen at once!

What does this sentence mean? Everybody knows that. At that time, I only remembered in my mind that I was on my way to Chongqing airport when I had memories again. Several uncles accompanied us, spent the night at Jiangbei Airport that night, and took the first flight to Shenzhen the next morning, and went to the south China we dreamed of.

When the plane landed at the sunny seaside airport, my heart suddenly tightened, because the broken nose and charred fuselage on the lawn outside the window suddenly came into view. The green lawn and charred open space are littered with fragments and wreckage of the plane, and the bright red kapok on the broken vertical tail of the plane seems to tell the disaster that happened here the day before-it is on this land that the torn metal and the raging fire swallowed up 33 fresh lives.

In my hazy memory, as soon as we got off the plane, we were sent to a special conference room in the terminal. Here, the leaders of China Southern Airlines Shenzhen Company express their condolences to us and the families of other passengers who arrived on the same plane. At that time, a person with a work permit was responsible for taking care of our family. I remember him saying to his mother, "I'm sorry, too." I'm terribly sorry. Please hit me and scold me ... "My mother replied with a crooked face and sobbed," It's not your fault, thank you. "

Our accommodation was arranged in Shenzhen Xili Lake Resort, and it seems that the body was claimed two days later. At first, I looked at photos. My mother and I watched a few, and we never dared to watch them again, because there were no pictures of my father in all the bodies with good faces. What I saw was a photo of my father's body, or a charred body. Although I didn't look carefully, I was still scared by the horror of the photo-the black body burned into charcoal shrank into a ball, and several prominent parts seemed to be bones, but the muscles had already disappeared. I can't stand it-how could my amiable father become like this a few days ago!

In the end, it seems to be a corpse identified by tooth marks, because the relics around me are just a pile of scattered residual banknotes, and I can't identify myself at all. Dad's lower teeth are fan-shaped and special, but this body is one of the three bodies with the most serious burns. The whole body has turned into coke, without an inch of intact skin, and some parts have burned to the bones. Poor dad! I can't imagine how painful he was in hell at the last moment of his life. ...

The next step is to identify the body directly. At this time, I left a lifelong regret-I was scared by the photos and didn't dare to see the body with my own eyes. Instead, I sat in the car parked at the entrance of the funeral home for more than an hour. I remember my mother went in twice. The first time she went in, she fainted and was carried out, but after waking up with sedatives, she insisted on going in. ...................................................................................................................................

A few days later, I went to identify the relics. A big warehouse near the airport was filled with the relics of passengers at the scene of the accident. I still remember walking into the warehouse: as soon as I entered the door, there was a strong smell of coke. The whole warehouse is full of all kinds of things that have been soaked in water and touched with soil. From time to time, someone suddenly picked up an object and began to cry. Here, we found my father's travel bag when he went out. Because of the consignment, the bag didn't burn, but it smelled strange after being wet and dried by rain. ...

We also went to the scene of the accident and specially told us not to get off the bus for safety before we left. But when the car stopped at the edge of the blackened lawn, there was a loud cry from the car. But this time, I didn't cry, but looked at the land quietly. At this time, it has been cleaned up, and no debris scattered on the ground when 10 arrived can be seen.

At this point, the runway next to it began to get busy again, and a falling plane seemed to forget the 737 that was smashed to pieces here! At this point, except for the black spots in the green grass and the crying in the car next to it, everything returned to normal. ...

It has been more than 20 days since I left Shenzhen. My father, who arrived two days earlier than us, lay peacefully in the box in my arms and returned to the native land of birth with us. ...

Today, ten years later, I am sitting in front of the computer. I still remember everything at that time, and my father's voice and smile still appeared in my dreams from time to time. From then on, I began to pay attention to civil aviation and gradually fell in love with passenger planes. I go to the runway every month to watch the plane take off and land. I seem to see the smile of the person I love again. ...