Not Into Her

XXI - The Reported Accident

When the plane reached the airport at around one in afternoon, an announcement has been heard around NAIA Terminal 2, through a megaphone.

Attention to all passengers, we have slight delay of flights. As for this moment, an incoming storm heading Manila. We advised all passengers to stay in the airport and wait for the incoming advisory. Thank you!

After the announcement has been announced around the airport, all passengers freaked out a bit and panicked around the airport. Some are still waiting for their flight back on their chairs and some are having their own snack break inside the terminal. They have so much fun in staying in the terminal and they make friends while waiting.

I walked inside the terminal when my flight is still on delay. The incoming flight to Washington is still in the airport, and the airport didn't let any of its passengers in danger. So the airport manager closed the airport and all planes are on the port for the night. All passengers are staying in the hotels around Pasay City to spend the night and the reservations are free, the airport manager will paid the hotel rooms for free.

But a pilot of the plane MH-198 has been flying through the stormy clouds with his passengers on board. They're eager to fly back to Washington D.C. to celebrate the birthday of his son and his co-pilot helped him in flying the airplane without any restrictions. Their flaps are okay, their wings are also okay, and the tank is fully refilled. They requested the tower to give them some directions but the tower always restricted them to fly due to bad weather conditions.

But the pilot are eager to fly the plane and they flew the plane up in the sky. Instead of going back to NAIA to wait for the weather to be fine, they flew up in the sky. They saw no clear skies, no calm clouds or bright stars. But they saw rain in their windshields and wind always flying them slow.

The passengers on board are in mixed breeds and from different races. Some are Americans, Hispanics, Filipinos, Russian, Germans, Arabs, British, Chinese, Japanese, Africans and Dutch. The pilot are from Americans, born and raised in Washington D.C., and his co-pilot is a Filipino-British. The flight attendants are British and Filipinos who have families.

But the problems on this flight are the clouds are thick with rain and continuous sets of thunder and lightning struck on their sides. They've got no visibility on their flight and the chance of getting to their destination is on six percent. They flew from the Manila and used the route towards Pacific Ocean instead the long way home just to get home. They were terrified if something will gonna happen to them though they already knew that they're in danger and their lives are on peril, due to the pilot's wish to get home before his son's first birthday comes.

Then there was it. The first lightning struck beside them, at the side of the plane's body to be exact. That causes their communication to the international line are jammed and never been heard from them. Whenever they tried calling on their radio to the tower near to their location, they got nothing.

Then the second lightning struck them and hit the right wing of the airplane. The pilots are aware to the damage and immediately pulled the tab to fall the breather on their passengers' top. The turbine of the right engine burned and suddenly the propeller crashed and turned into pieces, making the wing cracked on its stem.

Suddenly, the right wing ripped away and fell on the waters, swaying the whole plane to the right. The passengers heard the big bang on the wing and panicked when they saw the hole on the right side of the plane. The passengers looked at the their fellow passengers on the right side where the wing and the hole is located and they immediately helped them to cut the belt on their stomach.

But they're too late. The turbulence on the hole is too rough and hard to handle. Each passengers near the hole suck themselves to the hole due to the strong winds that pulled their seats to the hole and fell on the waters. The passengers on their seat have nothing to do but to scream to their deaths, as they fell on the waters with a temperature of nearly absolute zero degrees.

Then the other wing has been struck by another lightning and the engine of that wing burned into pieces. The passengers heard the crash-like sound and they screamed for their death. Then the plane fell from its 1,000-feet fly in the clouds and continuously fell. The pilots panicked and they blamed each other for their nearly deaths as they let the plane fall on the waters.

When the plane reaches five hundred feet above sea level, the plane burned and fell into pieces. The passengers, the pilots and the flight attendants just held themselves before they died on the Pacific Ocean. They're fried and burned as the plane crashes and burns before it exploded into pieces while falling in the clouds. The plane crashed to the waters and the wreckage fell on the sea beds.

Then the six-o'clock news came in the TV. I was on my hotel room, taking some clothes to change, when the news is heard in the TV. I just finished eating early dinner with my co-passengers of the same flight I was and also finished my evening bath time and was on the bed.

The frontlines of the TV news includes the crash on the Pacific Ocean. The flight number has been placed in the screen and I was surprised that it's almost the same ticket number I have. But the number on the last line is eight instead of three. MH-193 is my plane for the flight to Washington and I was so curious of what happened to the plane.

So I took the remote control of the TV and turned up the volume.

"The flight MH-173 has been missing from the runway for almost half an hour." the male reporter on the airport said. "Then the airport tower looked at the radar awhile ago and noticed the plane has been flying since a couple of minutes ago. According to the air marshal, the pilots of that plane has been arguing before their communication with the pilots on board went black."

"The last transmission of the plane to the tower has been dead for thirteen minutes and never been contacted after that. The airport management always tells their passengers about some cancellations of flights when they heard some reports from PAG-ASA."

When they heard the news from TV, Father and my sister Christine immediately contacted my cellphone but they didn't contact me. So they started to get worried if I was one of the passengers of that flight. Father started to hibernate and his heart rate increased at the moment.

He immediately took to his hospital and been installed with some apparatus for breathing and also for his dialysis. My sister and her not-so-handsome boyfriend always walked to his room everyday and gave him some assistance on anything.

"Well, that's shocking!" I whispered. "Maybe Father and sister Christine will gonna be surprised when they hear this news."