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Chapter 28 - Chapter 28: Operating At Full Forwards Thrust While Also Braking In Full Reverse!: Tombstone Technology Can Only Fix So Much! (Part 2)

"Hello again viewers, Keiko here. So, before we get started with this chapter, I figured that I would first address a few things regarding current, as well as past real world events. Don't worry viewers, as there is in fact a very good reason why I am doing this. Anyway, why don't we start, by going back to March 27, 1977. Why you may ask? Well, that just so happens to be a very important date in the history of aviation. The day, on which 583 passengers and crew, lost their lives, in what is still, the worst aircraft accident, in the history, of aviation. I am talking of course, of the Tenerife Airport Disaster. You know, the one that involved a fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s? KLM Flight 4805, and Pan Am Flight 1736? Yes, that Tenerife Airport Disaster. Anyway, how about another example? This time, we will go a bit more further back in time, to March 3, 1974. Why this date? Well, that just so happens to be the date, in which a Turkish Airlines DC-10, crashed on takeoff after its cargo door blew open in mid-air. At the time of the accident, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, was carrying 335 passengers, 3 pilots, and 8 flight attendants. And, in the case of what caused the resulting crash? Well, due to a design flaw in the DC-10s cargo door. If the locking mechanisms of the cargo door in question, didn't close properly, like in the case of a previous DC-10 related cargo door incident over Windsor Ontario just two years prior. Which was American Airlines Flight 96. Then, like in the Flight 96 incident, once the aircraft reached a certain flight level from the ground, the change in both cabin pressure, and the outside air. Would cause the aerodynamic loads on the cargo door, to cause it separate in mid air, and in the case of Flight 981, it did so, with disastrously fatal consequences. Why? Well, when the cargo door, on Flight 981, separated from the aircraft in mid-air, it caused an explosive decompression, caused the floor above the cargo door to collapse into the cargo area below. And tragically, severed the control cables to the aircraft's elevators, rudder, number two engine, and severed all three of the DC-10s hydraulic systems. And, like in the case of Japan Airlines Flight 123 on August 12, 1985...Actually viewers, let me just stop for a quick moment here, and just ask you all a question...*proceeds to bring face very close to the screen while giving a less then pleased expression*...Are you all by any chance, still only reading this one fanfic, and still not even remotely bothering to read the other two, that are connected to this one?...Why you may ask?...Well, the reason why I ask, is that if you still are in fact doing that, then you are missing quite a bit of key information, as well as the whole big picture, as to what is truly going on...Anyway, back to the current topic at hand...Now, as I was saying...Like in the tragedy of Japan Airlines Flight 123, if you don't have any hydraulics, you basically have zero control. As in, you have no way to move the flight control surfaces on the aircraft. The only thing that would still be operating after such a catastrophic control failure, would be the aircraft's engines, as well as the engine throttles that control them. But anyway, back my lengthy explanation. Now, there is a very good reason...well several very good reasons, as to why this chapters title, is worded in the way that it is. Another example, is we will now go back to May 26, 1991. A Boeing 767 operating as Lauda Air Flight 004, suffers an uncommanded deployment of its number one engines thrust reverser, and in the span of only a couple of seconds, Lauda Air Flight 004, goes into an extreme left roll, and then goes into a complete nosedive while almost completely inverted. I will give the pilots of Flight 004 credit, they fought up to the very end, and followed the engine shutdown procedure to the letter, and by the book. The only trouble was, by the time they had reduced the affected engines throttle to idle, and had cut fuel to the affected engine as well, the aircraft was already traveling at nearly the speed of sound. And at that speed unfortunately, the aerodynamic loads on the airframe, causes enough of an overload, to tear the plane apart in midair, in what is referred to, as an in-flight breakup. On a bit of a side note, in-flight breakups, actually happen a lot more then you all might think that they do...A few examples?...Well, why don't we first go back to May 25, 2002...When a faulty repair to a China Airlines Boeing 747 from a tailstrike that it had suffered back in 1980...caused the plane, which at the time of the in-flight breakup, was operating as China Airlines Flight 611...and carrying 206 passengers, and 19 crew members...and only a couple of minutes into the flight, as Flight 611 approached 35000 feet, or Flight Level 350, or FL350. The metal fatigue, that had built up on the faulty repair, to the aircraft's tail section, caused the entire tail section, to separate in mid-air...Another example regarding a faulty repair?...Well, lets now go back to May 25, 1979...a DC-10 operating at the time, as American Airlines Flight 191, loses its number one engine from the left wing, just as the DC-10 starts its rotation away from the runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport...the cause of the separation of the number one engine, had in fact been set in motion several weeks prior, when the DC-10 was brought in for maintenance...and unfortunately, as the engine of the aircraft in question, as well as the pylon that it was still attached to, was being hoisted back into position, by a forklift. Which by the way viewers, is not an FAA approved procedure...anyway, the forklift, wound up slamming the engine and pylon assembly, so forcefully back into the fittings on the wing, that it would up causing a small fatigue crack to form, where the rear of the engine pylon assembly, wound up slamming against the aft support clevis...and on May 25, 1979, the aft pylon assembly in question, failed and broke apart quite violently...which wound up with the aircraft's number one engine departing the wing...And at the time of the incident, American Airlines Flight 191, was carrying 258 passengers, 10 flight attendants, and 3 pilots, for a total of 271 passengers and crew. And unfortunately, there were no survivors, and the resulting crash and flying debris, wound up killing two more people on the ground...but anyway, back to Lauda Air Flight 004...anyway, at the time of the tragedy, Lauda Air Flight 004, was carrying 213 passengers, 2 pilots, and 8 flight attendants. For a total of 223 passengers and crew. But viewers, the point here is, that sometimes, in regards to a tragedy, like the several air crashes, that I have just mentioned. A single failure mode, is usually not enough to cause such a horrid but preventable tragedy. Like the show Seconds From Disaster had mentioned time and time again throughout all of its episodes, it is always a sequence of events, that wind up leading to tragedies like these air crashes. But, the other point I am trying to make here, has to do with the very preventable crash of Lauda Air Flight 004. Do you see the reference to the chapter title now viewers? Well you should, after all, something similar to this, was mentioned towards the very end, of the last chapter. *smiles* But, I think that that is more then enough of my lengthy fourth wall break. So now, what do you say, that we finally get on with the chapter, hmm?"

Okay, so let me be honest here regarding the whole situation from the last chapter, and while we're at it, the one before that as well. Now, during the fight, between Touma, and Accelerator, Accelerator tried many attempts, to try and get one of his hands onto Touma's body, so that he could try to cause something to happen regarding his body. And what I mean by that, is that apparently, Accelerator had somehow learned, how to cause a persons blood in their body, to literally turn into an explosive force, causing them to die from the blood exploding out of their body. But, the good news here, was that Touma never allowed Accelerator, to even lay a hand on him. Because every time that Accelerator would get close, Touma would just simply punch Accelerator in the face with his right hand. Which just so happened to be the location of Touma's Imagine Breaker.

But anyway the point here, was that after several failed attempts by Accelerator, which wound up resulting in him getting more and more agitated. He finally decided, to try and use his ability, that had been slowly developing within him, from the Level 6 Shift experiments. And what I mean by that, was he now apparently, had the ability to control the wind, and its many wind currents. So yea, not the most ideal of situations, for either Touma, me, or Misaka.But, however, and as both me and Misaka looked on at the current situation in complete and total horror. An idea, then wound up popping into my head. An idea, which wound up spawning, from me just so happening to glance, at the many windmills, that were scattered across Academy City. Well, the ones that were near us, that we could see at the current moment that is.

"Hey viewers, Keiko here. So, I think that that is a great place to stop this chapter. Don't worry, the climax of this episode, will be in the next chapter. *smiles* Anyway see you all in the next chapter. *says while smiling with eyes closed and head tilted to one side in a cute manner*"