The Airplane

October 23rd, 1906 / Brazil / Alberto Santos-Dumont
The first public airplane in Europe was made.
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June 1st, 2009 / Brazil / Air France
A jet carrying 228 vanished over the Atlantic, in a state of bare survival and little hope.

Air France is facing the worst crash in its history.
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When humans realized they could fly, they went into ecstasy.
Not until they were deprived of their lives did they feel the melancholy.
Currently, people do everything risking their necks.
A paradox is hovering above my head:
If there were no airplanes, who would have stepped on a mysterious land in dozens of hours?
But for the airplane, we would have less melancholy news.
Anyways, life is too short to live in absolute safety.
I’d rather say, it’s another Titanic disaster in the air (though eventually the debris was found at the sea).

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