Chapter 184

We ended up on a private flight early the next morning, as the airfield last night had to cancel all flights back to Manhattan for several hours because of a helicopter pilot crashing on one of the runways. Someone poisoned the poor pilot with pistachio cake, not realising he had a severe nut allergy and almost killed the man. A bloody helicopter crash due to cake poisoning has to be one of the most farfetched reasons to delay a flight I have ever heard, and it put the airfield out of use overnight.

Well, I suppose it’s not as bad as when I had to fly from Chicago to New York, and the pilot died when his lift plunged several floors of the building he was coming from. A freak accident that started a fire and ravaged the whole building. Apparently, everyone died in that blaze. You couldn’t make this shit up.

Alexi didn’t want to drive home either, as he hates long, monotonous road trips; it kills his restless nature. So we stayed another night with a booked plane flight ra