LONE SURVIVOR IN A PLANE CRASH
Dreams do come true, yes the long cherished dream of mine to visit the empire city, New York came to life when I got an assignment to cover the life of a person who survived lonely on an isolated island after the crash of his plane. I knew it’s my lifetime chance I grabbed it with both of my hands. My sojourn started the airport beaming with life. I found myself in the sea of faceless faces, tense, nostalgic, a whole sea of emotions can be felt there, my mother there to see off. It’s really a long journey for me to be away from my mother .Both of us have in tears in eyes, I don’t know why I flowed in emotions. Exactly at 9’o clock at night the airbus 380 took the flight. I was having jitters but comforted by a fellow passenger who was going to meet her son, a lady in her late 50s .Its lively atmosphere out there in the plane, but the harmony of that joy soon broken when out of a sudden, a big thud , and a bang ,the plane started to fall down like a wing less bird ,everybody was in state of disbelief ,transfixed in their positions .I can hear the deep breaths , chanting of mantras ,and teardrops trickling down their cheeks, a blackout with a deafening sound and then the silence of night and I lost my consciousness..
The first ray of light fell on my bruised eyes and through the broken glass pane I saw that one by one the stars faded into the aura of sunlight. I woke up to a different world. The first question that crossed my mind was that Am I alive or dead? Is this a life after death? all kind of thoughts flooded my mind but what I saw was death all around me ,mutilated bodies , bodies charred to death. I was aghast, soon I came to my senses and I searched for sign of life in my fellow co -passengers ,unfortunately after searching all 213 passengers I concluded that I am the lone one who survived, when I realized the grossness of situation , I was in a state of disbelief. I tried my best to come in terms with the situation, trauma and despair lurked around me , but then my will to fight against the odds, put me in great spirits, my resolution to live got stronger ,my will to survive increased in leaps and bounds,now I ventured out from that ghastly place. I paid my homage to my fellow co passengers and my struggle to survival begun. The island was Eden with tranquility and peace all around.,wild trees and shrubs spread wide and far , an eerie silence trying to gobble me up, where to go ,what to do .soon I found my way to the highest ground on that lonely island. From there I was only able to see the endless sparking blue line meeting at the horizon. Nature’s innocuous beauty I can only admire but then I felt no chance of my survival. My mind flash backed and I recounted that how during my celebrity interviews I used to ask about this particular situation and most of the celebrities romanticized about it. I was seeing the reality, and I felt how it was to be alone on an island cut off from the human civilization. I thought of exploring the island, which was still untouched by human greed. I wandered all around the island, saw exotic species of fruits and flowers, I ate voraciously to fill my appetite and after wandering for a so long a ennui fell on me I under the shade of coconut trees…but my fears, anguish and killing circumstances made me mad, from where should I search for inspiration, in a flash some inspiring lines enlightened me” life has its own course, just like the river which flows everywhere, undermining rocks, terrain and vegetation, there is always a pass to squeeze from there, does not matters whether in front of her a strong rock standing, she has the determination to rip apart it and to flow through to it” yes a silver line of hope I saw at the distant horizon, I ran fast as I could to reach the site of accident , everything there was horrible . I somehow managed to enter the pilot’s cabin , the pilot was still in his driving seat with his firm hands holding the speed gear , showed his grit at the call of duty, I tried to locate the machine that keeps a plane in control with its air traffic control system ,The pilots cabin was full with small and big lights ,different sorts of buttons ,it took time to locate my last ray of hope ,when I heard the faint voice of instruction coming out from the machine“A-380, locate your position” , ,I was speechless my joy seemed to have no boundaries I tried my best to locate my position, but without any assurance the gleam of hope faded away I felt helpless , my eyes got wet , I ran once again to the far end of the island. Wrote HELP on the beach and moved towards the top part of the area ,my survival instincts losing away ,I can see the stars started coming up on the firmament ,I found a CAVE where I spent the night, I don’t know when night passed but my eyes opened when I heard a loud sound of wind gushing into the cave ,I thought it as a nature’s fury ,but it was two helicopters who I had a sight of relief , yes it was the rescuing team. They approached the accident site covered up the dead bodies and made arrangements for their return. After seeing a human face I understood how it was difficult to live in the elements of earth without any human assistance .I wrote my assignment but instead of that American hero it was me who recounted the whole ordeal.
