Before the article, the captain still wants to state with you that one of the longest sums in the captain's title is not contradictory, because many of China's international routes are very long, such as China-US, Central Europe, Central Africa and other routes. So the longest here is a broad concept, rather than the narrow sense of the single finger longest, so it is reasonable to call these intercontinental routes the longest, I hope you can understand.
Stopped for a while and didn't say international routes. After the change of season, China has not added any new international routes. Most of them continue the international routes of the previous season, or between a few fixed cities. The country is still dominated by the three cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. The current route is indicated as the direct flight from San Francisco San Francisco International Airport to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It is an international route from cities on the west coast of the United States to China.
This is the first time that San Francisco San Francisco International Airport has appeared in the article of the editor, such an international aviation hub, the editor first spent some time to introduce the airport.
San Francisco International Airport referred to as "San Francisco International Airport", located in California, the airport is about 13 kilometers north of Downtown San Francisco, the airport flight area level is 4F, is a large international aviation hub in the United States, in California San Francisco International Airport after the south of Los Angeles International Airport, is california's second busiest airport, San Francisco International Airport was completed in 1927, almost 100 years of history.
The scale of airport construction and infrastructure construction
San Francisco International Airport has a total of 4 terminals and 4 runways, namely the 2332-meter-long runway numbered 01L/19R and 60 meters wide. The runway number 01R/19L is 2637 meters long and 60 meters wide. Although the width of these two runways has reached 60 meters, the length is relatively short, and it is not even as long as the runways of some domestic 4C airports, and these two runways are usually mainly used to take off and land some narrow-body passenger aircraft. There are also two runways, the 3618 m long and 60 m wide runway numbered 10L/28R and the 3470 m long and 60 m wide runway numbered 10R/28L. These two runways are mainly used to take off and land large wide-body airliners. The 4 runway decks are all concrete concrete decks. The longest of these 10L/28R runways is equipped with the state-of-the-art Class IIIB Compact Approach System, with the remaining three Being Class I Compact Approach Systems.
In 2019, the data of San Francisco International Airport was 57.488 million passengers, 546,400 tons of cargo and mail, and 458,500 aircraft take-offs and landings. Ranked by annual passenger throughput, San Francisco International Airport can also rank in the top five in China in 2019.
At 4:46 Beijing time on December 4 and 12:46 local time on December 3 in San Francisco, Flight CZ8112 of China Southern Airlines took off from San Francisco International Airport, and after a long flight of 14 hours and 21 minutes and 11,076 kilometers, landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport at 19:07 on the 4th.
China Southern Airlines B20D7 real machine shooting
China Southern Airlines registration number B20D7 aircraft information and CZ8112 flight information introduction
Flight number: CZ8112, aircraft number B20D7
Flight distance: 11076km
Duration: 14 hours 21 minutes
Departure Airport: San Francisco International Airport I (SFO)
Arrival Airport: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport T2 (CAN)
Model: Boeing 787-9
Age: 2.2 years
Number of seats: 276 (28 business class seats, 248 economy class seats)
Business Class seat layout: 1-2-1
Economy Class seat layout: 3-3-3
Business Class seat information: Legroom 114cm, seat width 58cm, maximum seat angle 180° can lie flat.
Economy Class seat information: Legroom 81cm, seat width 46cm, maximum seat angle 100°.
Real-time flight data for CZ8112 flights
At about 12:00 local time in the United States, the crew of flight CZ8112 also completed the pre-flight preparation procedures such as the pre-departure checklist procedure. The pilot applied for clearance, South 8112, model 787, applied for clearance to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport.
San Francisco Airport agreed to allow the clearance, to Go to Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou, China, and after obtaining the clearance permit, the pilot of the flight contacted the airport ground to request the launch of the drive, and the ground control agreed to launch the drive.
The aircraft then deflected gears, the pilot lifted the brakes, flight CZ8112 was launched from the parking position by the airport ground tractor, and after pushing, the pilot started two GEnx-1B turbofan engines, and when ready, the pilot requested to drive and taxi.
Ground control agreed to the aircraft's taxiing permit, and Flight CZ8112 began to slide off the runway, after which the pilots contacted the airport tower.
At 12:46, the San Francisco Airport Tower issued a take-off instruction to Flight CZ8112, and then the aircraft began to accelerate and slide on the runway, accelerating to the speed of the wheel VR, the pilot pulled the lever to lift the wheel, and the aircraft took off. The following time will always use Beijing time.
About 30 minutes after flight CZ8112 took off, the plane climbed to a cruising altitude of about 34,000 feet at an altitude of 10,355 meters above sea level. The plane accelerated to more than 900 kilometers per hour, heading at 316°, and the plane was over the Pacific Ocean in a northwesterly direction from San Francisco, and the aircraft continued to fly in a northwesterly direction.
At about 8:40 Beijing time on December 4, nearly four hours had passed since the plane lifted off from San Francisco. The plane climbed again to an altitude of 11,582 meters, flew at a speed of about 853 kilometers per hour, and had reached the sea southeast of Alaska, about to enter the Alaska airspace, heading 303°.
Since then, flight CZ8112, under the control of autopilot, has stabilized at a flight altitude of about 11,590 meters, and the aircraft has crossed the Air Of Alaska in the United States, passed through the Bering Strait, and entered the skies over the Russian Far East.
Flight CZ8112 then climbed again to an altitude of 12,214 meters, about 40,000 feet, and flew at a speed of about 800 kilometers per hour.
At 15:00 Beijing time on December 4, flight CZ8112 flew into Chinese airspace more than 10 hours after taking off from San Francisco International Airport. From entering Heilongjiang to landing in Guangzhou, the flight time over China is about 4 hours, and the flight distance is about 3,000 kilometers. At this time, the aircraft flew at a speed of 825 kilometers per hour and flew at an altitude of 11,214 meters, at which time the aircraft was located over Hegang City, Heilongjiang.
After entering China's airspace, from 15:00 to 18:27, flight CZ8112 flew for about 3 and a half hours at an altitude of about 12214 meters. At this stage, the flight speed of the aircraft has been gradually increasing, the flight speed of the 18:27 aircraft has increased to 1081 kilometers per hour, the aircraft is located over Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, there are still hundreds of kilometers left, and then the CZ8112 flight began to descend in altitude, entering the landing stage, and the aircraft flight speed is also decreasing synchronously. At this time, there are still about 40 minutes to go before the plane lands at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport. The descent phase lasts about 40 minutes.
At 19:07, after 40 minutes of descent, the plane landed on the 02R runway of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, and then the plane slowed down, left the runway and followed the airport ground guide car into the 110 parking lot, and the flight ended.
Flight CZ8112 flies approximately
After taking off from San Francisco International Airport, the flight trajectory was roughly as follows, with the aircraft flying northwest first and quickly leaving the land over the United States. Entering the waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, the aircraft flew over the western Pacific Ocean of Canada. After crossing the southern part of the Alaska Peninsula and the Bering Strait, it entered the Russian Far East, made a long flight through Russia and crossed the Sea of Okhotsk, and finally the plane entered Heilongjiang Province in northeast China. The plane then crossed or rubbed through Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Hubei and Hunan to the south and arrived in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and finally landed at Baiyun Airport.
San Francisco flew guangzhou aircraft on some routes
Partial route map of san francisco to Guangzhou flights
The aircraft type of this flight is Boeing 787-9, and the following is the relevant data of Boeing 789 for your reference.
Model Boeing 787-9
Length: 63 m
Wingspan: 60 metres
Height: 17 meters
Cockpit width: 5.49 m
Maximum takeoff weight : 254 tons
Cruising speed: Mach 0.85 (903km/h)
Full load distance: 7,635 nautical miles (14,140 km)
Maximum fuel capacity: 138,898 L
Operating ceiling: 43,000 ft (13,106 m)
Engines: two GEnx or Trent 1000