The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 85

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 85

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He looked towards Marcus
and then Olaiwola and he
said;
“The chief just cancelled
today’s drill. He said there will
be no test flight this morning”
Olaiwola was surprised as the
drills had never been cancelled
and he said;
“Are you sure he said that? Let
me go have a word with him
and see why. In the meantime,
you both get in your birds: we
might not be taking to the air
this morning, but you have to
make sure those airplane’s
engines are running just in
case something happens”
The third man Musa said;
“What are the chances of that
happening? If the chief says
we should not test this
morning, I will rather go back
home. My wife is off duty and
she is still in bed”

Olaiwola looked at Musa and
said;
“Lieutenant, this is an order:
stand beside your bird and
wait for me” and he walked
away. He hated puling ranks
on his own pilots but in some
cases, it was necessary to do
so.


He walked over to the chief’s
office who was actually a
commodore but they all call
him chief. He knocked on the
door and a hoarse answered;
“Come in”
He walked in to the smell of
stale cigarettes which is the
trade mark of the Chief’s
office. He saluted and said;
“Good morning sir”
“At ease Lai”

Lai was what people call him
as his name is long and a lot
of people just preferred using
the short form

“What is the problem this
morning?”

“I learnt you cancelled this
morning’s test flights and I
wanted to confirm directly
with you sir”

“Well I don’t see the
significance of the test this
morning. The Presidential jet
has not returned from its trip
which means the president is
not even there so what is the
point in burning fuel up there
when there is nothing to look
at?”

Lai’s brain immediately
composed a long speech
about how it pays to be
prepared but those were the
type of speeches you gave to
those beneath you and not
your superiors so he said;
“I get that sir but I have
informed the morning crew to
test their engines even if we
would not be flying and we
will also move thebirds to the
run way and just in case they
are needed”

“Okay captain. You can leave
now; I have things to attend
to”

As the captain walked out, the
Chief said to himself;
“You have a long way to go
boy. Let’s see how today ends
first”

Lai walked out of the office
but instead of walking to
where the planes where he
went to the communications
centre. He walked in and saw
them all strained monitoring
traffic. He always enjoyed the
room as everyone was always
serious and watching the No
flight zone. He shouted;
“Okay people, who violated
the first law of the No Flight
Zone?”

They have just two laws there:
the first says “Don’t fly near
the NFZ” and the second one
says “Don’t fly into the NFZ”
A voice answered;
“If someone did, would you
just be arriving here?” he
shook hands with those at the
door and said;
“Since no one did, why is
every one straining their eyes
and watching the monitors or
did someone fly a kite close to
you protected zone”
“This is no joke abeg. Just
another plane which is
heading to the Air force base”
Lai said;
“Does anyone know why we
test the strip on that base? We
just land planes there once
while and take off without
reason.”

No one answered because
they did not really know but
they kept watching the plane
as it went down and landed
then they got their eyes off
the monitor and went back to
doing nothing. The
communication crew had just
four people working there
and the atmosphere was
always lively
One said;
“Lai, are you not supposed to
be in the air right now?”

“Yes I am but we are not
flying this morning: the chief
says the weather is bad for
my health so we will just be
testing the engines and
keeping the birds warm” with
that he walked out to his
plane