There were of course no planes roaring overhead.
The form was perfect, but of course the planes didn't come.
Midway through the film, of course, the planes finally hit, forcing Channing Tatum to leave Amanda Seyfried and do his bit for God and country.
We found ourself idly tracing the slow course of planes across the sky at night as we lay in bed, despite out having been told that a V-bomb sounds more like an old motorcycle than a plane.
Of course, my plane landed in a sea of overstressed, overworked rat kings fornicating with cockroaches and three of my exes.
Of course, the plane and its pilots are already in the record books a few times over, having secured the record for the longest solo flight (from Japan to Hawaii) and crossed the Atlantic, both fuel-free.
AirAsia's Chief Executive Tony Fernandes, who has flown to Surabaya, said: "We don't want to speculate but right now of course the plane has been missing for 12 hours and there's a deep sense of depression here.
With the equipment seeming to be working and the plane on course, he said, another plane out there over the Amazon seemed impossible.
Of course, the Russian planes bombarded it as an answer.
Flying faster, of course, will let planes and crews make more trips, thus saving money.
