1. I'll take the risk. What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it?
2. Describe the narrator's experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm.
3. Why does the narrator say, "I landed and was not sorry to walk away from
the old Dakota?
4. What made the woman in the control centre look at the narrator strangely?
5. Who do you think helped the narrator to reach safely? Discuss this among
yourselves and give reasons for your answer.
grade 10
first flight
Answers
Answer:
1. The risk here refers to the risk of flying through the storms and black clouds. The narrator took the risk of flying through the black clouds because he wanted to reach his home and meet his family. The desire to meet his family made him take the risk of flying in the dark stormy clouds.
Explanation:
2. As the narrator flew into the storm, everything went black. He couldn't see anything outside the plane windows. ... His plane didn't have much fuel but he followed the pilot and came out of the clouds and saw the runway
3. After landing, the narrator was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota because he had a horrific and scary experience flying that plane. He was happy that he had landed the plane safely. That is why he was not sorry to walk away. Instead, he wanted to know where he was and who the other pilot was.
4. The woman in the Control Centre looked at the narrator strangely because the narrator asked her about the black aeroplane but she saw no plane except the narrator's plane in the sky during the storm. Even the radar showed only the narrator's plane in the sky that night.
5. But probably it was the narrator himself that helped himself to overcome the fear in the storm as no other plane was seen in the radar except the narrator's Dakota plane. In that fearsome situation, he might have been hallucinating. He himself was a good pilot and brave enough who helped himself land safely