As Co-Pilot , David just brought the plane to touch down on the tarmac. The landing was perfect with mild weather near the island. The island is almost a paradise for anyone wanting to soak up the sun. He stared at his watch, 9.50pm, the last flight to the island.
As he engaged the reversed thruster to slow down the plane, the feeling of drag suddenly comes into play. A pale face appeared , out of no where, a woman was standing right in the path of the runway.
“Jesus, what the hell ? Did you see that ?” David nearly wanted to jam onto breaking throttle but he refrained from doing so as it was already too near to change course to avoid the woman on the runway, too sudden of change may cause the plane to be skidded side way.
“What the hell was that ?” Captain Nizar was equally shocked. Both of them had a good view of the lady.
“Ladies and gentleman, we have a situation here and we need to stop at the end of runway for some emergency works, the bus will take you back to the terminal. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience ” Captain Nizar announced over the PA system, fearing potential damage to the landing gears.
As passengers disembarked from the plane on stairways , Captain Nizar and David picked up a torch light and started walking back along the runway to check if the landing gear hit the woman and looking for any possible damages to the wheel, most importantly, they have called up ambulance service. As they walked back looking at the runway distance markers to where they spotted the woman, she was nowhere to be seen.
{Time … 12 years ago}
“Look , this is costing us thousands of dollar everyday. You better make sure the last one get dug out !!” The Chief Engineer to the airport project bang the table and walked out.
Almost every coffin was accounted for, except one woman. Underneath her tombstone, there was nothing to be found. the soil somehow shifted and due to landslide. She was never found but no one knows her coffin was buried deep under mid span of the runway after the project completion. That is where the haunting began after the airport was put into use.
She always appeared near the mid-span of the runway.
{Present}
It was the first night flight service to the island, none of them ever expected to see something like that.
As Captain Nizar headed back to the hotel, he started chatting to the Van driver. As he told him, the airport was once located next to the Chinese cemetery. When the airport was expanded, all the coffins were exhumed to make way for the new runway. But because it was rushed through and the government took it by force with many family disagreed. Some were supposed to buried deep with the tarmac running over it. It was thought clean but was not the case the contractors rushed to finish the prime minister’s pet project.
But a better known one was a young lady who died at very young age during Japanese occupation. Haunting started even before airport was there. Most effort and time were spent looking for her coffin until the Chief project engineer halted the effort. He, too, died of mysterious circumstances on the day the airport was scheduled to complete right at the middle of runway while rushing to perform final inspection. Many said, he has overworked himself and died of heart attack.
But some said his father was a Japanese officer on the island and had beheaded many innocents. Many of those were buried near the airfield.
Fate would have brought him back to the island to work the airport.
