真正的勇气（2）（2/2）
《美丽英文》作者：方雪梅 2017-04-14 12:47
ked around with knowing grins. Our communal looks acknowledged to one another that we had experienced minor problems and disturbances before. If you fly much, you see these things and learn to act blase about them.
We did not remain blase for long. Minutes after we were airborne2, our plane began dipping wildly and one wing lunged downward. The plane climbed higher but that didn’t help. It didn’t. The pilot soon made a grave announcement.
“We are having some difficulties,” he said. “At this time, it appears we have no nose-wheel steering. Our indicators show that our hydraulic system has failed. We will be returning to the Orlando airport at this time. Because of the lack of hydraulics, we are not sure our landing gear will lock, so the flight attendants will prepare you for a bumpy landing. Also, if you look out the windows, you will see that we are dumping fuel from the airplane. We want to have as little on board as possible in the event of a tough touchdown.”
In other words, we were about to crash. No sight has ever been so sobering as that fuel, hundreds of gallons of it, stre***ng past my window out of the plane’s tanks. The flight attendants helped people get into position and comforted those who were already hysterical3.
We did not remain blase for long. Minutes after we were airborne2, our plane began dipping wildly and one wing lunged downward. The plane climbed higher but that didn’t help. It didn’t. The pilot soon made a grave announcement.
“We are having some difficulties,” he said. “At this time, it appears we have no nose-wheel steering. Our indicators show that our hydraulic system has failed. We will be returning to the Orlando airport at this time. Because of the lack of hydraulics, we are not sure our landing gear will lock, so the flight attendants will prepare you for a bumpy landing. Also, if you look out the windows, you will see that we are dumping fuel from the airplane. We want to have as little on board as possible in the event of a tough touchdown.”
In other words, we were about to crash. No sight has ever been so sobering as that fuel, hundreds of gallons of it, stre***ng past my window out of the plane’s tanks. The flight attendants helped people get into position and comforted those who were already hysterical3.