在第二次世界大战的北非战场上,美军一支P-38战斗机中队,在空战后返航时发现少了一架。所有飞机立即在附近空域搜索,但未发现失踪飞机的残骸,也未发现飞行员跳伞。当晚,基地为这名“失踪”的飞行员举行了弥撒,所谓“失踪”实际上就是阵亡。因为那架失踪的P-38飞机无论如何再也不可能在天上飞行了,因为油料早已耗尽。 At the North African battlefield of World War II, one P-38 fighter squadron of the U.S. military found one less after returning to air combat. All aircraft searched immediately in the nearby airspace, but did not find the wreckage of the missing aircraft nor did they find the pilot skydiving. That night, the base held a mass for the “missing” pilot. The so-called “disappearance” is actually a death. Because the missing P-38 could no longer fly in the sky anyway, because the fuel had run out.