One Life Of A Pilot

Chapter 2: An Unexpected Flight

   It was 9am and I was drinking my morning coffee when I got a call from my boss...
   "Hello?"
   "Hi Max, I know this is very unexpected but you are the only one in a range of 50 kilometers, a second officer on flight 7917 got sick after eating some bad chicken and I need you to fly today" said my boss.
   "Uhhh, yeah, I can do that, it's just going to take some time until I'm ready..."
    "That's fine, your flight is in 4 hours anyway, your Captains name is Kerem Toksoy, and this will be very special as you also have a first officer with you, since it's a very long flight, her name is Katharina Bork"
    "Sounds good, I'll see ya!"
    "See ya!"
     I instantly started packing all my stuff and got ready to get to the airport, I called an Uber as my friends were all working. I arrived at the airport only to see a at least 100 person line for security. My flight was in an hour.... After I got through security I dashed to the gate where Kerem, my Captain and Katharina (Kathi in short), my first officer were waiting for me.
    "Hi! you must be Max, I'm Kerem, and this is Kathi, thanks for making it on such short notice" said Kerem as we were walking through the jetway. "Today we are flying from Heathrow to John F. Kennedy airport, from where we will do our checks again and fly back right away"
    "Sounds good" I added as we got into the cockpit"
     I went outside to do the exterior check, which includes checking the flaps and spoilers for ice/debris/unannounced damage, checking the landing gear, the engines and all the sensors on the body of the aircraft. When I went back inside I told the captain that we are good to go and we can start loading passangers,cargo and fuel. After we were done we checked in with the ATC to get our cleareance, then we all got seated and asked for permission to pushback and taxi, "Heathrow Grounf this is Lufthansa 7917 requesting pushback and taxi clearance to runaway 27R"..."Lufthansa 7917 pushback facing north taxi via Lima,Bravo,Alpha and hold short Alpha 1"..."Taxi via L,B,A hold A1, Lufthansa 7917" We taxied, got our clearance for takeoff and we got to cruising altitude.
     Around 4 hours into the flight i sudently noticed that our right engine (number 2) wasnt making any sounds.
     "Is engine 2 on idle?!" I asked the captain.
     "Not supposed to, throttle is at 40%, I'm not hearing it either..."
     "I'm going to try to restart it" after 3 attempts i say "It's not working, this is bad, we're in the middle of the Atlantic too"
     "I'm going to try to find and call an ATC, or if not we can transmit it on guard" said the pilot. In the meantime Kathi came in.
     "Is everything okay with number 2?"
     "No, it's not working" I answered.
     "I called guard, we can arrive at JFK with one engine, but it sure will take more time"
     "Yeah, let's just hope that only the engine malfunctioned and not some fuel pumps"
      After 4 more hours we were on approach when we suddently heard that our 1st engine stopped aswell.
      "Crap, that's not good at all" I said.
      "Yes" said the captain as I was starting to restart it with no success..." JFK Tower this is Lufthansa 7917 Mayday Mayday Mayday we have double engine failure with unsuccessful restart attempts 6 miles final"
      "Lufthansa 7917 copy that, how many souls do you have on board?"
      "358 crew included"
      "358... copy that, we have dispached emergency vechicles all traffic incoming and departing is stopped clear to land when able"
      "Copy that we'll try our best, 7917"

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Now that's a bit of a cliffhanger 😅 but i have to somehow make this interesting :)
As allways feedback is very appreciated.