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Flight 45

Chris Hall57 Comments

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The red-headed writer, aka the Raconteuse, had been staying in her bolt hole place, a tiny flat right up on the rickety stairs, in Montmartre, near the cemetery; a useful place where she’d already sold her little picture for her tidy profit, just a week ago.

Now it was time to go, she grabbed her important things in her big bag; all she would need was some new warm clothes, buying them from a small boutique shop.

Soon she was making her way to the train, taking her to Charles de Gaulle airport, where she had been many times; she also liked to move around from place to place, often in different continents, but she’d never been to Iceland, it would be the coldest place she’d ever been.

After the usual performance to get in the plane and take off, including keeping her eyes shut for a couple of minutes, everything was fine; now she was quite happy to enjoy her gin and tonic, and look forward to seeing some of her friends from the Cafe, although what there were all doing was a mystery to her for the moment.

About three hours later, she’d been reading most of the time, but now there was a great deal of turbulence, as she put everything away and buckled up her seat belt tightly; she looked out from the window, and suddenly a huge plume of fire burst out from the volcano as it erupted.

‘Brace, brace, brace,’ yelled the captain.

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57 thoughts on “Flight 45”

  1. Talking about explosive development, Chris 🌋

    ( Btw, that is why pilots are thanking the passengers for flying with them prior to landing… even themselves are not certain they will😆)

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  4. 😱 A volcano?? Oh no! She’s in for an adventure! I don’t know why I didn’t realize in your previous story that she was the one sneaking the photo at the museum. An unexpected plot twist. 🤔

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  7. There’s a lot going on in Iceland at the moment Chris… we all seem to be there! No volcanoes where my/our lot are though! I’m sure the Raconteuse will be fine! (I don’t know what happened with my first comment… blame the volcano!)

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  21. Hmm… Here’s hoping Captian Sulley is flying and can land safely. If he can land in the Hudson River – maybe he can land anywhere!! Hope they all land safely! I wonder if it is safer to fly towards (not into) the ash than to try and flee from it and get all that ash in the engines…

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      • Ah… in talking with hubby… the best thing is to figure out which way the ash is drifting and fly as fast as possible away. He realted that there was a plane that actually had that happen (Brittish Airways 1982). The ash not only clogged the engine but grazed the windshield glass. They didn’t know then about the really bad consiquences – smoke started to fill the cabin, but it wasn’t unusual because in 1982 folks could still smoke on airplanes. Thankfully the amazing piolits got one engine started and were able to safely land. Now of course there is also better weather and radar flying near an active volcano is unlikely to occur.

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