So there i was stuck in the shit-hole that is Maputo,Mozambique.....i needed to get back to SA and because i was there towards the end of the week the only flights back home were frighteningly expensive,my boss told me to take the cheapest one to get back so that i could return our aircraft which was in Durban for Maintenance back to camp in Moz. I was stuck.....the flights were incredibly expensive and i couldnt expect my boss to pay it,so i said i would wait until monday for a cheap flight......great 3 more days in this hellish city.....i walked back to the airport briefing office and standing there paying his landing fee's was an old tjommie of mine that i had helped in Beira when he came in with his Cessna 421 business liner,low on fuel and beira starved of avgas supplies as it usually is,i ran around the airport and tried my level best to get them fuel and make a plan,which they eventually did and they got back home to SA:)now he was flying a kingair 300 for the same company and was on his way back to JHB,my stomach turned at the thought of asking for a ride home....i kept thinking there is no ways he will allow me to hop on!!! after much chatting and time to build up courage, i asked is there any possible way i could catch a ride with you? after one quick phonecall to his very wealthy boss,the answer was a resounding yes:)!!!!! i couldnt even fathom in my head how this could be happening and how lucky i was,a free-flight in a king air 300,saving my boss alot of smackeroo's in the first place:)He told me i had to be ready in 20 minutes though so i absolutely raced to the hotel,got my stuff and raced back:) after thanking my friends boss profusely and being told to stop thanking him and kindly get on the plane....i was given a prego roll and an ice cold coke:):):) i honestly almost shed a man-tear....i have never experienced and act of kindness so great to someone who was to him a complete and utter stranger.....:)absolutely astounded still to this day.....and if he ever reads this which i doubt he will,sir thank you so much....you made my year:)
after a short flight i found myself in wonderboom with a cheap connecting flight from JHB international to durban,saving my boss in the region of R6000:)and it got even better....from kruger international across to wonderboom i got to log an hour in the 300 because they let me sit in the co-pilot seat and the captain happened to be a DFE grade 1 and instructs on the kingair series all the time,your kindness will never be forgotten:)
Truely blessed:)
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