The blue bird with yellow stripes
The blue bird with yellow stripes
sat there without an
eye checking its exoskeleton’s equipment
With another brain and over 200 souls .
What a great bird it was with metallic exoskeleton who’s
royal engines roared like a royals tiger
And with a high speed jet blast
The blue bird with yellow strips
Soared through the eye of the hurricane without an eye
talking to the ground and assuring his path with
Another brain assisting it and 200 souls
Hail and rain ran through the skeletons body like gunfire
it was enough quiet the royal’s tiger
Then everything went quiet
as soothing it was
for some it was deafening for the bird
the blue bird with yellow stripes was falling from the
height
with one eye and another brain and 200 souls
pan-pan-pan, mayday-mayday-mayday it tweeted to the ground
but the silence had seemed to deafen them
all hope seemed lost for the brain but the blue bird soared
with all might
its eye aimed a grassy levee
mayday-mayday, speed bird heavy
it lowered the gear , extended its wings with 200 souls
scrambled to a head down trance
he saw the ground and the sky with a single glance
with a touchdown as smooth as possible, without a single
rumble or crumble
he saved all his souls and the exoskeleton with one eye
never such a feat has been achieved before
done by a blue bird with golden stripes
On
May 24, 1988, flight TACA 110 lost power in both rolls’ royce engines due to
accumulation of hail in them. but its pilots made a successful deadstick landing (landing without engines and not a
runway)
on a grass levee, with no one aboard sustaining more
than minor injuries The captain of the flight, Carlos Dardano of El Salvador,
had only one eye due to crossfire on a small flight to El Salvador, which was undergoing a civil war at the time. This poem by
swapnil mittal is composed to respect the dare of the pilot who did not quit
when all hope was lost but he remained calm and saved all 200 souls on board
( The blue bird = pilot)
(brain=copilot)
(Exoskeleton=aircraft)
(royal’s tiger=rolls Royce aircraft engine )