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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 the 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 being 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.