CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why didn’t the pilot turn the aeroplane back towards Paris when he realised he would be caught in a storm?
A
He was a daredevil.
B
He wanted to go on a holiday.
C
He did not want to miss breakfast with his family.
D
He did not like Paris.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Option (C) he did not want to miss the breakfast.

Detailed explanation-2: -6. Why did the pilot fly straight into the storm instead of returning to Paris? Ans. He did not return to Paris because he wanted to get home.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Paris was 150 kilometres behind him when he saw the storm clouds. They were huge. The thinking of Narrator while he thinks about Paris Control was that he has not sufficient fuel to go back to Paris because he came 100 km far it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Solution : When the pilot of the Dakota plane asked the woman in the control centre about the black aeroplane and its pilot, she could not help him because she had seen no other plane flying that night on the radar.

Detailed explanation-5: -After landing, the narrator did not feel sorry to walk away from the old Dakota because he had a very horrific and scary experience flying that plane. He was happy that he had landed the plane safely with the help of the strange black aeroplane. That is why he was not sorry to walk away from it.

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