Deadliest Air Crash

July 11, 2016

Soaring high above the clouds, where no one is able to see it, the Clipper Santiago is on a routine flight at its peak altitude of 45,000 feet. It is a Pan Am Boeing 777-300ER on its way from New York JFK Airport to Johannesburg International. It took off at 3.30 AM from NY. 5 minutes ago at 7.22 AM it took off from Charle de gaulle Airport in Paris after an alarm malfunctioned and went off in the cockpit. As the plane carries on an bang is heard  and the passengers feel the sudden feeling of dead people. Everyone a who was asleep awakes and finds something only seen in movies. Nothing. The entire front of the aircraft is gone. The Clipper Santiago is falling to the ground at nearly the speed of sound. When the aircraft reaches the speed of sound, the entire plane rips apart. Three people are torn limb from limb. From the moment they broke the sound barrier, every one is killed.

The same day at Tenerife International

“ Qantas 759 you are cleared for departure.” The controller has given Qantas 759, a Airbus A330-300 on a return flight to Perth, the clearance for take off. Tenerife is famous for the deadliest air crash, the collision of two Boeing 747s. As the Qantas plane starts down the runway the ground starts shaking. Everyone but the people on the Qantas plane feel it. About 500 metres from the fast moving plane an explosion is heard. The controller say to the others, “ Not again.” No one can see it, or can they. The Qantas pilots can see the explosion. Captain Zach Adams quickly turns to avoid it, but it's too late. The A330s right front tyre runs over a piece of debris and it pops. The craft turns vigorously to the right, throwing the pilots to the left as the monster turns towards the terminal. Another plane, a FedEx Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11 is parked at the terminal. The pilots know of the tremor and are beginning the engine shutdown. Captain John Carlson is reaching for a switch when out of the corner of his eye he sees lights. They are getting bigger by the second. He says to first officer Mark  Wright, “ Is that a plane?”. Mark replies, “ That's a plane and I think it’s going to hit us. BACK UP! BACK UP!” Luckily the engines are still running. John pulls back the reverse thrusters and they fire up. The MD-11 slowly rolls back. Windows in the terminal shatter within touch of the thrust. Zach Adams gets up from the floor and sees the FedEx plane and tries to lift the plane from the ground. He pulls as hard as he can on the control yolk. Finally the nose lifts, but not high enough. As the Airbus gets closer the pilots can see each other for a split second before Mark and John duck and then blackness. No one can see anything. About a minute later Mark wakes up and finds the plane has somehow gotten closer to the terminal he climbs down the nose and tries to close his eyes to the nightmare before him. He just can’t do it. Instead of dismissing the horror, he tries to help the people lying on the ground. None of them are alive. Of the 225 people on the two planes, one survived, that one person is Mark Wright. He is devastated. The build up of his life since then has been hard. He lives everyday with dread that his flight will have the same turn out. He says if it does, he hopes he is the one killed. Tenerife