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The Black Aeroplane Introduction
The lesson “Black Aeroplane” by Frederick Forsyth reflects on how one’s judgement gets distorted due to fantasizing and how it creates problems. In this chapter, the narrator is a pilot who is so eager to meet his family and have a good breakfast that he takes the wrong decision of facing the storm instead of doing the right thing. Miraculously, he somehow manages to escape with the help of a mysterious aeroplane.
Theme of the Lesson
Sometimes, it get tough for us to take decisions and doubt creates a lot of fear. We consider some helpful incidents to be miracles and mysteries. These incidents take us out of trouble and are nothing else but our mind’s courage and strength which takes the form of an external factor and takes us out of the doubtful situation. Such incident happens with the narrator, the pilot of the old Dakota plane who is flown out of the storm by a mysterious “Black Aeroplane”.
The Black Aeroplane Summary
The story “Black Aeroplane” is about a pilot who feels happy and contended to fly over a city that is sleeping (at night time). He is flying from Paris to London. While taking his flight, he dreams about the long holiday with his family. He also fantasizes about the scrumptious breakfast he would have upon landing. As soon as he crosses Paris, he gets a look of the dark clouds that were a sign of the upcoming storm. The right decision would have been to turn back to Paris for the sake of safety. But he is overshadowed by his dreams and not wanting to delay them, risks the life of his passengers and heads straight into the storm. Everything gets dark, he is unable to see, all his direction instruments stopped functioning and he lost control of the plane. When all hope was lost, he saw another plane whose pilot was more than willing to rescue them. The author was panicking as there was very less amount of fuel left. The anonymous pilot guided them out of the storm and disappeared as soon as they saw light. Upon landing, when he asks the lady in the control room about the other pilot, he is left in shock when she says that his was the only plane in the sky.