Delta Airlines Descriptive Writing

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All of the incoming flights were cancelled that night for a military aircraft training session. My orders were to close terminal A at the Buren International Airport in Augusta, Maine, and run a night shift until five in the morning. Terminal A was relatively big; several restaurants, shops, and gates were encompassed. Walls of crystal, glass window panes smudged with fingerprints lined the exterior wall, and with more sufficient lighting, one would be able to clearly make out discarded equipment and scattered cables on the neglected runway. But such lighting was not there, for all the lights had been put out for the military exercise. My flashlight beamed ahead as I cautiously patrolled the place. The minutes and minutes and dreadful hours and hours forced by in no particular hurry. All I had done so far that night was march up and down the squeaky, tile floor of the abandoned terminal. I had been told by other TSA agents earlier that day to be on the lookout for strange lights and unusual noises because there had been odd sightings there, but I had dismissed the warnings at that point because nothing had happened, and nothing was going to happen. I took a seat at one of the nearby benches. With no one monitoring me, I quickly dozed off into a deep sleep. …show more content…

Alarmed, I strained my eyes to make out a face in the cockpit. Perhaps it was too dark to see, but I could have sworn that a plane was pulling in with no pilots. I immediately grasped my flashlight tightly and approached the gate. It was open. How? I had checked every single gate and inspected the locks. The hatch of the plane began to open, and the gate would not close. I reached for my hand radio to find that I had left it on the bench. Anxious thoughts ran through my head as I desperately attempted to close the gate. I thought, “ I will be fired for sure. Who’s on the plane? What if I let something or someone into the

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