Two Minutes To Survive

It was Saturday morning, July15, 1989. Dave, Anne, and Shawn went through baggage checking along with their other fellow passengers. This took along time because Dave ended up with his bag being lost, and he had to wait half an hour before he could board the plane. It was a good thing he got there early. Dave was a lawyer who decided to go vacation with two of his best friends, Anne and Shawn. Anne and Shawn were newly weds and were doctors. They worked at Brookside Hospital and were well known for being nice people. As they went through baggage checking they talked about being so excited to go on a trip to Hawaii. Dave, Shawn and Anne all lived in Wyoming so they didn’t travel much because they were hard working people dedicated to their work.
As Dave waited in the chair with Shawn, thoughts were running through his mind like what would they do when they first got there. Shawn said, “I really want to go and see the waterfalls and beaches.”
Dave said, “I do Too.”
When Anne came out of the bathroom the overhead speaker said, “Now boarding flight 608 to Hawaii.”
That was their flight! They gathered everything and gave the woman their ticket and got on the plane. How exciting Anne thought to herself, as she smiled. When the plane took off and set for flight Anne and Shawn asked for water. While Anne and Shaw fell asleep, Dave asked the stewardess how long the flight would be and she said, “About ten hours sir.”
“Okay, thanks.”
Dave decided that he should get some rest before the plane landed because he wanted to make sure that he didn’t miss anything while he was on the trip and didn’t want to be lethargic. Five hours had gone by and Shawn, Anne, and Dave were wide-awake and felt like this flight was taking forever. It was very taciturn and the plane was very vapid. Anne had also had xenophobia of flying. Even though they had been on the plane a long time, Dave kept reminding himself where he was going and how exciting it would be.
Suddenly it started to rain hard with thunder and lightning. Dave awoke and thought oh no, this is terrible weather. People tried to be sanguine.
As Shawn and Anne tried to keep calm, they had a bad feeling that something was going to happen and they didn’t know what. “I’m really scared, Anne said.”
“ I know, Shawn said.”
Dave knew what it would take to fly this plane though. Dave had been a former flight pilot when he was in the air force. He had comfort in knowing the fact that he could fly a plane and if for some reason he died, he would know that it was in a place where he had spent a lot of his life.
The stewardess walked by and was telling people to put on their oxygen masks just for safety purposes. “Are we going to be okay?” a young girl said.
“Yes we’re going to be fine,” the stewardess, said. Dave knew that the stewardess had some hesitation, and didn’t fully agree with her answer that she told the young girl.
Then all of a sudden the stewardess started panicking, the pilot had, had a heart attack. The co pilot began to freak out and he knew that he had to save this plane and these people. Dave heard the stewardess crying and the stewardess was full of trepidation, shouting, calling the airline station for help. Dave extemporaneously bolted out of his seat and ran to the front. There the pilot layed sprawled out on the ground fading away. He hoped a benediction would happen, Dave was tenacious because he yelled to the co pilot and said, “You need help.” The co pilot was evasive.
“ How would you know, the co pilot said.”
“ I was in the air force for five years, he said.” The co pilot conquered.
“ You have hydraulic failure.”
“ Help me, the co pilot shouted.”
Dave took the controls and started to land the plane gently. The plane was very prodigious, Dave had an onerous task. When the plane landed everyone stood up crying in happiness. No one hade gotten hurt, except for the pilot. An ambulance came and rushed the pilot to a near by hospital.
“ I got to say, you’re a great pilot, the co pilot said.”
“ You’re not so bad yourself.” As Dave walked towards his friends, Anne and Shawn, they were relieved and happy to be alive. Dave knew he had done a great thing that day and was proud to tell people. Most thought it was a plausible story. Oh and if you are wondering about the pilot he survived after the doctors revived him, and people weren’t doleful anymore. Dave, Shawn and Anne didn’t end up going on their vacation to Hawaii, in stead they went home and told the people who they knew what they had gone through. Dave was a hero and everyone extolled him.