Hi"Langstraat, I can image the deep fear of not knowing what was ahead, and a complete sence of loss, every thing was put out of your hands all you could do is wait and watch, (and the fear which seems to last forever ) I've been in one or two situations like that and I know what fear is, lets say I was very, very worried at the time.
My job took me around most of Africa, any way to cut a long story short, I was flying back from Tchad to Cameroon in a small red cross single engine plane, as we arrived over Cameroon there was low cloud, thick storm clouds, they were at 3.000feet, and just to the south of the äirport"was a 3.500 foot mountain, which we could not see, we went round for a while hoping that there would be a hole in the cloud which we could go through, we looked and looked nothing, now thats was the problem as like you you could not see the danger, all the pilot was saying was, "I think its over there some where", and that made us feel much better , ha, just then we found a hole in the clouds, and we just droped through, we could see the ground, it was a beutifull sight to see. as we came through the cloud we could see the mountain, it was about 10kms away. ok, but it could have been 10 metres away............John 2000