The moon was coming up in the east behind me and stars where shining in the clear sky above me.
The wasn t. a cloud in the sky I was happy to be alone high up above the sleeping countryside.
I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane over France Black to England I was dreaming of my holiday and looking forward to begin with my family. L look at my watch one thirty in the morning.
I should call paris control son I thought as I locate down past the nose of the aeroplane.
I say the lights of a big city in front of me.
I I switched on the radio and said paris control Dakota ds088 hair can you hear me I am on my way to England over.
The voice from the radio answered me immediately.
DS 088 I can hear you. you ought to turn twelve degree west now , DS 008. Over."
I check it the map and the compass switched over to my second and last fuel tank.
And turned The Dakota travel degrees west towards England i,ll be in time for breakfast., i thought. a good big English breakfast Everything was going Well _ it was an easy flight.
Price was about 150 km behind me when I say they clouds strom clouds. They wear huge. They looked like black mountains standing in font of me across the the sky i konew i could not fly up and over them. And I did not have enough.fuel to fly around them to the north or South.
I ought to go back to paris I thought but I wanted to get home.l wanted that breakfast.
I'll Take the risk I thought and flew that old Dakota straight into the storm.
Inside the clouds everything was suddenly black. It was impossible to see anything outside the aeroplane. The old airplane jumbled and twisted in the air I look ate the compass. I couldn't believe my eyes: the compass was turning round and round and round. It was dead. It world not walk the other instruments where studently dead to I tried the radio.