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airport we had rerouted to, we could

see that their fire department

consisted of one man in a rain slicker

with a truck that had a cattle water

tank full of water on the back. When

we saw this, one man on our plane

handed his friend a fifty-dollar bill.

He said, ‘I am paying you back the

money I borrowed because I want to

die with a clear conscience.’

“We all tucked ourselves up as

ordered, and as we landed on the dirt

runway, our plane acted like a plow,

digging a long ditch. When we came

to a stop, the friction had started the

plane on fire, but the man with the

water truck came and dumped the