Iraq

Date: 3/21/2021

I was working for the government in a job I didn’t like. Was in the Middle East, but not part of the US military. A plane was practicing take of and landing to a destination an hour away. So two hours round trip. People were able to get on, and get paid money for being a ‘tester’ to tell the pilot what we thought he could do better at, like take off was poor landing was okay, etc. I decided to do it for the extra monies as it paid well. I was able to bring my laptop and work while on the plane. It seemed like a win-win make money while making money. Take off was horrible and he got caught in the tailspin of another plane causing extreme turbulence. I got scared thinking this was a dumb idea. Another issue was that we were flying over a non secure area of Iraq and they said that we would be high enough that no one would detect us. We landed and came back, they said next time would be better as they learned. So I did it again. Then on the third time as I felt way comfortable on the way back we were flying low.... incredibly low! Shots were being fired at us left and right!!! I screamed we are too low!!!!! Go up! Go up! Apparently the government and the pilots had a different agenda. They used the planes mass and the speed to fly by small towns and blew everything over... likely killing the people. They dodged the shots fired. We went through a building! And I was freaking out!!!!! Telling them the plane will go down and we have no weapons. They said the plane is the weapon. They dipped the wing and hit what looked like an Iraq military camp. By now we had a lot of attention on us and a lot of shots fired. We were hit!!! Multiple times yet the plane was still flying... till we got too low and had to land. Bombarded by the Iraq military we were immediately surrounded and being shot at! The other 2 passengers were just as scared as I, one woman and one man. The pilots gave us guns And went out to shoot the people... we followed. Must have been 15 against 5, somehow we came out alive but the pilot was shot in the neck. I rushed on the plane got in the cockpit and said, how hard can it be... I just gotta go up! I was able to get the plane back in the air and back on the trajectory to safety. But then the joy stick stop working, it had been shot and was no longer responding to control the plane, we were gonna go down... we all braced ourselves for a crash landing. Boom we landed!!!! After coming to... I realize only myself and the male passenger had survived the crash. We take off on foot... scared out of our mind, because how would we make it through to the border!!! We each had a gun. We came upon a group of people, and just went on by like it was nothing... then not 10 min later, people were running after us and shouting. We ran! They caught up to us and we pretended to be defenseless... they were going to load us on their truck.. the moment they let their guard down we shot and killed them and took the truck. We came to terrain that the truck wouldn’t be able to go in, so we were back on feet. Again we were spotted snd chased, this time we got separated. I was captured and brought to a building... after a few hours, the guys became distracted by something and a bunch ran out to deal with whatever was happening. Now I saw it wasn’t many people guarding me, and I saw a way out. I decided to make a run for it. Running in an alley behind the buildings I came across a teenage boy, dressed in military clothes. It was a standoff. Neither had a weapon but he was surely going to grab me if I stepped a foot closer. I had to outsmart him... I sat appearing to have given up, he came up to grab me and I tackled him and strangled him. Then an elderly lady came and saw me, before she could scream I killed her too... I cried for them... I thought, I just need to find a US embassy. I found it. But didn’t know how i was going to get in... it was some distance away and surely I would be noticed and grabbed before I got there. So I went back to the lady and changed my clothes... walked through undetected like all was okay. Went into the embassy... and finally felt safe!!!! I told them who I was and what happened. They radioed to the town where I took off and sure enough they had been monitoring the trajectory of the plane and surely thought all had died. They said it wasn’t going to be easy to get be back even though I was at an embassy, that it would likely take a few years.. for this and my trouble, they said they would pay me 22million. And of course I couldn’t speak about what had actually happened. I was traumatized.. couldn’t believe all those who had died. And the people i killed... my heart was in agony for them! The money didn’t seem like a fair trade for what I had gone through. But of course I took the deal. I immediately decided i needed to make a living will so that the monies will go to my family if i never make it back. As I walked to the office to do so, I woke up.