It's not very entertaining, this southern Spanish landscape. Crop fields, some hills, a few trees. Totally ok with us, if the car would stop, it might not start again. The small airplane at the horizon is pretty much the only thing to observe. It's cruising at a notably low elevation, and it's not climbing. In fact, it disappears behind a hill. Then smoke. Did anyone else see the same thing as I did? The three companions in the car did. Did we just witness a plane crash? Adding the facts up, there is a pretty good chance that we did. What are you to do if you witness a plane crash from the freeway, in a foreign country? We have no mobile phones, we have no formal education in rescue missions, we hardly speak the language. We keep on going. The right choice? We'll never know...
Andalucia, Spain, January 1997
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