Data show that in today's common means of transportation, aircraft are the fastest and the lowest failure rate, and the probability of causing multiple casualties is as low as one in 3 million, so it has been called the safest means of transportation and tourism.
However, the danger remains. On May 7, 2002, an air disaster occurred on the mainland that shocked the world. On that day, Flight CJ6136 of China Northern Airlines, which was full of 103 passengers, flew from Beijing to Dalian. However, when the plane arrived over Dalian Fujiazhuang, the cabin suddenly burst into flames, the fire intensified, smoke billowed in the cabin, and what was more helpless was that the crew quickly lost contact with the ground tower.
In the end, the plane slid over Dalian in thick smoke and crashed at sea, killing all 112 of the 103 passengers and 9 crew members on board. After the tragic air crash, the relevant departments attached great importance to it and immediately launched a close investigation, but the results of the investigation made everyone feel cold, more than 100 lives, more than 100 families were broken, and it was actually due to a person's madness and greed.
Aircraft wreckage
On May 7, 2002, the last day of the May Day holiday, tourists who had finished their wonderful journey set out on their way home and prepared to go home to continue their work. The capital airport is crowded, and the sudden increase in traffic has kept the security officers busy, their mission is to ensure the safety of flights, although they are very tired, they still stick to their posts.
At this time, an emaciated man wearing a hat put the suitcase on the security instrument, the instrument slowly scanned the suitcase, and the image of the inside of the box appeared on the screen in front of the security inspector, only some ordinary daily necessities and clothing, and a few bottles of Coke. At that time, the domestic security inspection system did not stipulate that passengers could not carry liquids on board, nor did they have relevant regulations on "drinking a bite" to verify the safety of liquids, so the security personnel did not care about several bottles of Coke, after all, many people had carried various liquids on board before this. However, the security personnel never imagined that these bottles of Coke would soon bring a terrible disaster.
The man calmly passed through the security check and walked to the boarding gate with the passengers around him. At this time, Northern Airlines' Passenger Plane 2318 was quietly waiting in the tarmac. After the cabin door opened, the passengers boarded the plane one after another, and at 8.37 p.m., after confirming that the passengers had all boarded, the plane slowly slid on the runway and took off smoothly from Beijing Capital Airport, with the destination of Dalian. Beijing and Dalian are so far away that the plane can arrive in less than an hour, so most passengers do not choose to rest, but excitedly exchange these days of journeys with the people around them. They could not have imagined that there was a demonic man on this flight.
At 9.24 minutes, the plane had arrived over Dalian, and passengers could even see Dalian Xinghai Square Huabiao through the porthole, and the passengers knew that they were about to arrive home, and their faces showed happy smiles. The crew is no exception, this flight is already their third flight today, after landing, they can finish the day's work, go home and rest well, and the captain has begun to prepare for the landing.
Dalian Airlines
However, at this moment, the mutation suddenly appeared. At 9.32 minutes, a raging fire suddenly broke out in the calm cabin, and smoke quickly filled the entire cabin, the cabin space was small, the fire spread rapidly, the passengers were in a mess, and there were cries for help everywhere. The crew was also frightened by this sudden situation, and after returning to God, they quickly contacted the ground tower to report the news of the fire in the cabin, and after the ground staff received the crew's distress signal, they immediately began the routine rescue process and began to plan the forced landing and rescue plan. However, when the ground staff contacted the crew again five minutes later to try to confirm the damage to the aircraft, the passenger plane did not send back any information, the ground personnel continued to call for a long time, or there was no response, and everyone's heart was tugged, and they had a premonition.
When everyone learned about the plane again, the plane had already fallen into the vast sea with 103 passengers and 9 crew members. An ordinary crew member on the LiaodaGanyu 0998 fishing boat witnessed the whole process of the plane crash, and he quickly reported the situation to the Dalian Maritime Search and Rescue Center through the 12395 hotline. Later, he recalled: a huge fireball in the sky fell directly into the sea, setting off a huge wave, and then an explosion occurred, and various aircraft parts were thrown into the air.
The anxiously waiting air traffic controllers and the police were stunned when they received the news of the plane crash, and they couldn't figure out why the passenger plane suddenly caught fire and inexplicably fell into the sea. Too late to think about it, the most urgent thing is to save the lives of passengers as much as possible, although everyone knows that the probability of the plane crashing at such an altitude is too slim, but there may be a miracle, even if there is a glimmer of hope can not be given up. Soon, rescuers rushed from all directions, and more than 120 ships from the Lushun Naval Base, the Armed Police Border Defense Detachment and the Fleet of the Port Authority dispatched more than 120 ships to the site of the plane crash.
Plane crash
However, the miracle did not come, after a night of search and rescue, the seafarers and divers finally only recovered 92 bodies, the black box, tape recorder and other equipment on the plane were found, but even one survivor could not be found, which meant that all 112 people on board were killed...
When the media reported this news, in addition to grief, there was also a deep doubt in everyone's heart, the plane was about to land, how could it suddenly catch fire and crash? The state was also full of doubts about the air disaster, and the State Council quickly set up an air disaster handling team and arrived in Dalian the next day to investigate.
That night, the weather conditions were good, so it was impossible to crash the plane because of the weather, and there was no problem with the plane itself, which had just undergone a 5A overhaul more than a month ago, and the weight and stowage of the aircraft before take-off were all up to standard. The captain of the crash was an experienced pilot with 11,000 hours of flight experience, and the co-pilot also had 3,300 hours of experience, and both of them passed a routine medical examination before takeoff, so it could not be a pilot's problem.
After various bases may have been ruled out, the accident investigation team decided to investigate the cause of the fire, and this time finally found the clues.
The recovered aircraft engine was confirmed to be intact after a detailed inspection, and the most likely source of ignition was eliminated, followed by several parts of the circuit, oven, oil circuit, etc. that could cause the fire. So what exactly caused the fire, and many places in the cabin used fire insulation materials, even if it is on fire, how can the fire spread so quickly? Unless someone deliberately sets fire to the inside of the plane.
Investigators began to investigate along this line of thought, and finally the body of a passenger caught the investigators' attention. After investigation, this passenger's name is Zhang Pilin, unlike other passengers, Zhang Pilin's body burned a particularly serious degree, the average person will choose to stay away from the source of the fire when he encounters a fire, and Zhang Pilin seems to be deliberately standing in the fire to be burned, most of the other passengers died of carbon monoxide poisoning, only he died of burns.
Soon, the investigation team arranged for the forensic doctor to carry out a detailed incident of Zhang Pilin, and the forensic doctor found some drip-like burn marks on the back of his foot, and the experienced forensic doctor immediately confirmed that it was a wound caused by the burning after the drip of some kind of accelerant. Subsequently, through meticulous substance analysis, the forensic doctor extracted a slight trace of gasoline residue on Zhang Pilin's body tissue.
The investigation team immediately began to confirm whether Zhang Pilin had carried flammables on board. At that time, security scanning technology was not developed to detect the specific composition of liquids, and investigators had to scan each liquid separately. They put mineral water, drinks and gasoline into bottles and scan them through security screening machines. It turned out that the bottles of Coke that the security inspectors saw at the time of registration contained gasoline.
Subsequently, Zhang Pilin was identified by the police as a major suspect, but the police never understood his motives, because Zhang Pilin himself died in the air crash, was it an accident? To this end, the police conducted a detailed background investigation of Zhang Pilin, and conducted a meticulous exploration of social relations, family situations, daily activities and other aspects. During the investigation, the behavior of Zhang Pilin's family attracted the attention of the police, and shortly after the plane crash, his family actually took several aviation accident insurance policies to the insurance company and demanded compensation.
Aviation accident insurance, in itself, is a relatively unpopular type of insurance, and few people buy it. It's not auspicious to do that, especially for Chinese. Second, there is no need, the rate of plane crashes is very small, even negligible. As a result, only a very small number of people on the entire flight have purchased the insurance. It's not strange to buy one insurance, but it's hard to explain if you buy seven at a time. According to professionals, only 30% of regular customers buy aviation accident insurance in China, and most of them only buy one copy, and one person buys seven copies rarely.
Zhang Pilin bought seven aviation accident insurance at a time, with an insurance amount of 1.4 million yuan, and more importantly, the insurance was just bought shortly after, and the flight he took had an accident, which is probably more negligible than the plane crash.
How did he accurately predict the time of his own death, there is only one possibility, to create his own death, which means that he is the culprit of the air crash, and the motive is to cheat insurance. At the same time, the police also found that Zhang Pilin's wife had worked in the insurance industry, and Zhang Pilin purchased several other insurances in addition to purchasing aviation accident insurance, and in the time before the air crash, he also had three car accident records, each time through insurance to obtain a lot of compensation.
After the above series of investigations and careful reasoning, the air disaster handling team determined that the air disaster was caused by the destruction caused by Zhang Pilin's arson. So why did he do that?
Zhang Pilin graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing University and was admitted to graduate school. At that time, the master's degree was full of gold, and after graduation, he easily entered the Ministry of Public Security, and later left his job because the unit stopped welfare housing. After leaving his job, he successively worked in a computer company and a foreign trade company, with a very generous salary and a house of his own. In 2001, however, he gave up a stable job and chose to go to sea to do business.
Shanghai was ruthless, Zhang Pilin obviously did not have enough ability to take the helm, and it was not long before his company went bankrupt and was saddled with debts. However, the ups and downs of the business sea, naturally there are losses and gains, it is a big deal to learn from the experience of the comeback, but Zhang Pilin is different, he is a high-caliber student, decades of smooth sailing, living a good life, has not experienced setbacks. Now that he has failed, his fragile psychological defense line is simply unacceptable, let alone the courage to start from scratch, let alone follow a group of creditors every day.
In this case, he chose to take the risk and take insurance fraud, which led to several subsequent car accidents. Zhang Pilin, who tasted the sweetness, decided to do a big vote, and his target was invested in the plane, according to relevant sources, Zhang Pilin was already in the advanced stage of lung cancer at that time, and he did not have a few days of life. In order to leave a considerable fortune for his family, he boarded the plane with gasoline and brutally killed 100 lives.
The air disaster investigation is clear, but it makes people feel powerless. Although the truth was revealed to the world, the culprits who committed this heinous sin also disappeared with the flames, leaving only more than 100 broken families.
The only comforting thing is that Zhang Pilin's family did not take a penny from the insurance company, and even after they took the insurance company to court, the court did not support the Zhang family's claim. At the same time, due to the warning brought by the air disaster, the Civil Aviation Administration has improved the security inspection system, and liquid items can no longer be carried on the plane since then, which has brought greater protection to the safety of passengers and can be regarded as a consolation for the more than 100 lives that have passed.