Flight 774 by Mayra Araujo

Author:Mayra Araujo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2022-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

A few days later, Luke and Brian were at the computer and communication center again. They had skipped lunch period. Luke was hardly hungry these days with so many worries in his mind. They were trying once more to open Luke’s mother files.

“Luke, we have to find a way to get in the files. The fact that we were able to get your mother’s files from Marianne was incredible, that alone is a reason to find out what’s in it.”

“I know, I know. I have tried everything. Is so frustrating.”

“Think of something that meant a lot to her besides you and your dad. That’s way too obvious.”

“Let me think,” said Luke, holding both side of his temple and closing his eyes.

“Wait, what was the name of the company she worked for?” asked Brian.

“You mean the science institute? Let me try it. The name was Avalon,” he said entering the word. “No, it is not that one either.”

“Try it again with capital letters.”

“No, that’s not it either.”

“How about the whole name? Try that.”

Luke typed in the name “Avalon Science Institute.”

He looked at Brian and shook his head.

“No, that’s not it either.”

“How about the book you are always talking about, what’s the name of the book?”

“Yes! The book. You may be right, how I didn’t I think of that!”

Feeling a little more hopeful, he input the words “Planet Earth” and the screen filled with file folders.

“I told you!” exclaimed Brian, punching him on the shoulder.

Luke looked into the files. There was a list of doctor’s records, family pictures, bank account information, and so on and then, at the very last of the files, they found one file titled “purpose.”

Luke looked at Brian with big open eyes and breathed in.

“If there is something, it has to be in here.”

“Yes, open it!”

“I’m afraid of what I will find.”

“I’m here, Luke,” replied Brian. “Now is the time.”

Luke pressed the button and a bunch of information filled the screen.

He expected to find something that would explain the accident but instead, they found a list that read:

“Environmental disasters of the 20th century.

December 3rd, 1984.

City of Bhopal in Madya Pradesh; country, India. Poisonous gas cloud escaped from the Union Carbide India Limited’s (U.C.I.L.) pesticide factory. The gas leak killed at least 4,000 local residents instantly and caused health problems such as edema for at least 50,000 to perhaps 500,000 people.

In 1989, the American oil tanker Exxon clashed with the Bligh Reef, the oil spill killed approximately 250,000 sea birds, 2,800 sea otters, 250 bald eagles and possibly 22 whales.

Dec 5th, the London smog disaster episode killed approximately 12,000 people, mainly children and elderly people.

Love Canal chemical waste dump.

In 1920, Hooker Chemical had turned are in Niagara Falls into a municipal and chemical disposal site, containing more than 248 different species of chemicals.

It went on to mention oils spill trough history:

-1967: 120,000-ton oil near Cornwall.

-1968: 14,000 barrels of oil near Panama coast.

-1969: 4,000 barrels of oil in Liverpool Bay, England.

-1970: 77,000 barrels.”

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