Airplane!

I have probably driven down this road in the Arkansas Delta many times, but had never noticed this old plane before. It sat off to the side, amongst a sea of grass and weeds that had turned brown and wilted in the winter.



I recently finished reading the book "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel, a book which is set just after a massive pandemic wipes out most of the world's population (fun reading in our current times, I know). Anyways, part of the book (spoiler warning) takes place at an airport right when the virus is spreading uncontrollably. A plane lands at the crowded airport and makes its way to the most isolated part of the tarmac, as far away from the terminal as possible. The doors never open, and no passengers ever disenbark. The implications of what is happening on the plane is left for the reader to decide. I couldn't help to think of that doomed plane as I took these pictures...





The plane sits next to a small airport, one that most likely hosts the occasional cropduster. I have no idea what the real history behind this old plane really is, or why it ended up here at this lonely spot in the Delta. But maybe something like this did happen when the plane landed here: