三绿一红巨大的喷气客机轰鸣着在跑道上滑行,升上洛杉矶傍晚的天空。“奇怪,”机长蒂姆·巴恩比说。他注意到,起落架收回时间似乎比平常要久一些。他扫视仪表盘看有无异常显示,什么也没有:所有机轮都已提起锁定。没有故障迹象,维尔京大西洋024号航班载着98名旅客和16人的乘务组,飞向伦敦希思罗机场。飞行正常,11小时后,红白相间的空中客车 A340开始下降,天空刮着 Three gorgeous red jumbo jet airliner roam on the runway, rising to Los Angeles evening sky. “Strange,” captain Tim Batby said. He noticed that the landing gear recovery time seemed longer than usual. He glanced at the dashboard to see if there was any abnormality, nothing: all the wheels had been lifted. No sign of trouble, the Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 carries 98 passengers and a crew of 16 to fly to London Heathrow Airport. The flight was normal, 11 hours later, the red and white Airbus A340 began to decline, the sky scraped