A Wooden Plane

It was a bright and pleasant day. Lucas was a young trainee pilot who was flying his plane high up in the sky. It had been more than six months since he was doing this. His training was going at a steady pace and he was happy with the way things were. He had gained enough experience to negotiate most difficult situations up in the sky. The practice session was almost coming to an end, when he realised there was a thick cover of clouds ahead him. It was not the first time he had come across something like this, so he continued without hesitating. However, when he was passing through the clouds, a strange sight met him. An antique wooden plane was flying very close to him. ‘This looks like a World War-1 plane,’ he thought. Lucas tried hard not to collide with the wooden plane, but still the wings of his plane scraped it.

Lucas is Confused

When he scraped past the plane, Lucas lost control of his own plane. He tried hard to balance his plane and was at last able to land it down smoothly. As soon as he landed, he met his instructor and told him about what he had seen in the clouds. “Are you sure? No one flies wooden planes anymore,” said the instructor. “It may have been some bird you saw.” “Oh no! It was for real. I am very sure. It brushed past my plane and I almost lost balance. It was dangerous,” said Lucas. “Nowadays, no one flies such a plane,” said the instructor. “You had better forget about it. If it’s for real, it may appear again,” added the instructor. Lucas soon forgot about the incident and started focussing on his training. Months passed. One day, some men found a wooden shack near the pilot training base.

Inside the Shack

When the men peered inside the shack, they were in for a surprise. It was very dusty and dirty. In the midst of all that dust, lay a wooden plane covered with dust. The men were excited and started exploring the plane. The men were busy searching the plane when one of them found a dusty log-book. “What’s this?” he asked the others. “A log-book! Pilots in the olden days recorded every flight in a log-book,” said another man. Then he started reading out one of the entries that he had found amusing. It was recorded in 1910 and it said: “I was flying my plane on a bright and pleasant day when all of a sudden a metallic plane came into view. Its wings scraped the body of my plane and I almost lost control. Then just as suddenly it disappeared from sight.” The men looked at one another, puzzled.

The Unidentified Pilot

After reading the log-book entry the men became very curious. So they examined the wooden plane more closely. And sure enough, on its body they found a scratch. They also found metal splinters glistening on the place where there was a scratch. A few days later, another pilot flying his plane had the same experience as Lucas. He, too, saw the antique wooden plane and almost collided into it. Soon many pilots had the same experience and kept talking about it. Once all the pilots were discussing about it when they realised they had never seen the pilot of the plane. Soon, the news about the wooden plane spread like wildfire in the training base. Many researchers tried to find out about the wooden plane, but none could find an answer to it. As for Lucas, he soon finished his training and became a commercial pilot. However, he never forgot about the wooden plane of his training days!

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