Character Sketch: Two Stories about Flying - 2 - Class 10 PDF Download

The Narrator

• The narrator (Fredrick Forsyth) was a professional pilot. He was flying his old Dakota aeroplane over France back to England. He was happy.
• The narrator was quite a family man. He was dreaming of his holidays. He was looking forward to being with his family. He wanted to be in time for breakfast.
• The narrator seemed to lack his professional ethics and responsibilities. He was about 150 kilometres away from Paris when the storm clouds appeared in the sky. He didn’t have enough petrol to fly around them to the North or South. Actually, he ignored his professional wisdom. He ought to have gone back to Paris.
• The narrator was a grateful human being. He was grateful to the pilot of the black aeroplane for saving his life. He went to the Paris control to ask who was the other pilot who saved his life.

The Unknown Pilot

He was a helpful man. He was flying a black aeroplane. He helped the narrator to find his way in the storm. He was a quite satisfied man, who wanted nothing in return. When the narrator landed down safely at the Paris airport, he made an inquiry about the pilot but he got no trace of him. The pilot did his work and disappeared in the sky.