After more than thirty hours of continuous operation, Zhao Zhiwei, a rescue team member from China Communications Construction, had bloodshot eyes, but he did not stop, still searching nervously, "I want to find out their relics..."
Data chart: On March 12, local time, the rescue work of Ethiopian Airlines crashed flight ET302 was basically completed. The picture shows the laptop wreckage of the victims scattered at the accident site. Photo by China News Service reporter Wang Xi
The "them" he called were none other than the 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines ET302 crash, including 8 Chinese compatriots, especially The Killed AVIC International employee Jin Yetao, who was a friend of Zhao Zhiwei. When he heard the news of the plane crash, Zhao Zhiwei followed the Chinese rescue team to the scene for the first time. After a bumpy ride, what he saw was a huge and black-smoke crash scene. Such a tragic situation made Zhao Zhiwei intuitively feel the viciousness of the air crash for the first time. According to his description, the nose of the plane was missing, and the broken parts of the aircraft, the remains of the victims and the wreckage of the luggage were all shocking.
"It's very scary, and it makes people's scalps tingle." Zhao Zhiwei told reporters that at the scene, he only stayed for a moment before he felt his chest suffocate, and his heart was almost crazy - except for the sound of excavator operations, there was almost no other sound, and everyone was nervously searching for every inch of land in front of him.
During this period, Zhao Zhiwei found the "remains" of the victims - the palm of a four- or five-year-old child. Zhao Zhiwei could not say any more when he said this, and his colleague Zhang Hongwei quickly patted him on the shoulder and said, "He threw up after reading it." ”
Data chart: On March 12, local time, at the scene of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, Kebebew Legesse, the mother of crew member Ayantu Girmay, was devastated. On the morning of the 10th local time, an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane planned to fly to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, ethiopia, and none of the 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board survived.
Zhao Zhiwei continued to search in the ruins, he wanted to see his friend for the last time, and he also wanted to give an explanation and thought to the families of the other victims. "I don't want to give up until the last minute." He said.
However, due to the large area of the crash site and the excessive momentum at the time of the crash, everything was reduced to very small pieces in an instant, which undoubtedly made the search more difficult. The reporter saw at the scene that the rescue team members were rummaging through the land mixed with debris with their bare hands, and they did not know how many times they had rummaged through it in more than 30 hours.
Over time, the hot weather exacerbated the harshness of the relief environment: the unpleasant smell was disgusting from time to time, and the crows circling overhead were irritating. But Zhao Zhiwei still did not give up, wearing a mask he is still trying to rummage, once the rescue team found items that were not marked in English, he would rush over to check it, but every time he would be disappointed.
Data chart: On March 12, the rescue of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 was basically completed. The picture shows the families of the victims placing flowers at the place where the accident occurred to mourn. Photo by China News Service reporter Wang Xi
With the last excavator stopping work on March 12, the rescue and search effort was basically over.
At this moment, Zhao Zhiwei's face was sunburned red, and he sat alone next to the excavator that had stopped working, staring hopelessly at the large pit more than ten meters deep formed by the plane crash, saying: "I want to do something for my friends and compatriots who were killed, and find out their relics, but I found nothing, and my heart was really very uncomfortable." When he said this, Zhao Zhiwei's eyes flashed with tears, and his voice was choked and hoarse.
(Source: China News Network)