Mariana van Zeller

And so this is happening.

So we're following the plane as it's coming from Ibiza.

And the plane's coming here, 20 minutes on the ground, and then it's going to Dubai.

And it's going to drop us off in Dubai.

And in Dubai, we're going to get our commercial planes to go back home.

And it's a long story, but it's worth it, I promise.

It wasn't a big runway.

And they were very brave because it was an active sort of military, potentially at war country.

We still have printed out, my partner in traffic, Jeff Plunkett,

gave me a map when I came back.

He printed out the map of what the plane radar thing map looked like at the time.

And you can see it says you couldn't fly through Niger.

Niger is a pretty big country in the middle of Africa, and it's a red box.

And then there's one plane crossing, and it's our plane that's coming.

And basically they figured out.

So they're coming.

We're seeing it coming from Ibiza.

We are as nervous as you can imagine as we can be.

We arrive at the airport.

It was like 5 a.m.