Pesawat Kehabisan BBM, Mendarat Darurat Masuk ke SPBU
Pilot Apparently Ran Out of Gas Mid-flight and Stopped to Refuel
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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KETIKA tahu bahan bakar minyak di pesawatnya mulai 'cekak' ternyata pilot berpengalaman pun sempat panik.
Tapi ketika seorang pilot amatir di China mendapati tanda merah pada indikator bahan bakar, pilot pun langsung menuju stasiun pengisian BBM terdekat, dan meminta petugas SPBU untuk membantunya mengisi tangki bensin.
Insiden aneh dan tergolong nekat itu terjadi di Beichuan kabupaten di provinsi Sichuan barat daya China, awal April lalu, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Pesawat, yang tampaknya buatan sendiri, meluncur ke SPBU di samping mobil-mobil lain yang sedang antri untuk mengisi BBM.
Dengan bantuan petugas SPBU, pilot nyentrik ini berhasil menarik satu dari nosel pompa untuk mencapai tangkai BBM di sayap pesawat.
Seorang juru bicara polisi menegaskan: "Kami dapat laporan bahwa ada sebuah pesawat mendarat lalu masuk ke pompa bensin, tapi kita tidak tahu apakah pesawat benar-benar terbang dan mendarat atau apakah itu hanya semacam aksi dari seseorang mencoba menarik perhatian."
"Pria itu mengatakan kepada petugas SPBU mendarat karena dia mengaku kehabisan bahan bakar, dan kami telah berbicara kepada salah satu sopir yang mengatakan mereka melihat saat pesawat mendarat.
"Tapi jika itu yang terjadi itu adalah misteri mengapa kita belum dapat menemukan tempat pendaratannya maupun tempat lepas landas pesawat tersebut.
Liu Yongbi, 35, adalah petugas SPBU yang memberi akses saat pesawat memasuki SPBU, dan dia mengatakan kepada polisi bahwa ada dua orang di dalam pesawat, seorang asing dan seorang pria Cina.
FINDING out your plane is low on fuel mid-flight would be enough to make even the most experienced pilots panic.
But when one amateur pilot in China discovered his fuel gauge in the red he simply landed, drove to the nearest petrol station, and asked staff to help him fill the tank.
The incident it happen in Beichuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province, early April.
The plane, which appeared to be home-made, taxied into the petrol station alongside other cars that were waiting to fill up.
With the help of petrol station staff the pilot managed to pull one of the pump nozzles far enough each the fuel cap on the wing of the plane.
A police spokesman confirmed: 'We had a call that there was a plane driving down the road but we don't know if it had actually been flying and had landed or whether it was just some sort of stunt from somebody trying to attract attention.
'The man told petrol station staff he had landed because he had run out of fuel, and we have spoken to one driver who said they saw the plane land.
'But if that's the case it is a mystery why we haven't been able to locate the landing field where it took off from or landed or indeed the pilot.'
Liu Yongbi, 35, was the petrol station attendant who had been cleaning the forecourt when the plane taxied in, and he told police that there were two people inside, a foreigner and a Chinese man.
