Flight 714

Flight 714 to Sydney ( original French title: Vol 714 pour Sydney ) is a comic album of the series The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, which was published in 1968.

Action

Tim, Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock and Snowy travel to Sydney at a convention for space in which they are considered the first man on the moon guests of honor. At the airport of Jakarta, they meet by chance Pyotr Klap, whom they had met on board during their adventure coal. Klap is now pilot of the eccentric billionaire Laszlo Carreidas flying to Sydney and also Tim and Co. invites you to travel on a private jet. Tim's distrust is awakened by the suspicious behavior of Spalding, Carreidas ' private secretary and the strange fact that the copilot Paolo Colombani and the radio operator Hans Böhm have recently been added to the flight crew, as both predecessors had accidents.

First, the flight runs in the up to Mach 2 flying Carreidas 160 without any problems. Haddock and Carreidas play Battleship, the billionaire means of hidden camera and screen spying and defraud his opponent. Suddenly Spalding, the radio operator and the copilot Colombani take over by force of arms the team aboard. They hijack the plane and land on a deserted island - Pulau - Pulau Bompa - - in the Celebes sea on a makeshift runway. The prisoners are tied up out of the aircraft, Tintin manages to escape into the jungle. Tim and his friends look at the author of the crime against: Rastapopoulos has kidnapped with the help of his subordinates Allan, sondonesischer rebels and other criminals to go with the help of a truth serum to the money in the secret account Carreidas.

All the prisoners except Carreidas be blocked by Allan in an old Japanese bunker. They face the fate of being sunk by plane in the sea. But with the help of Snowy Tim manages to free himself and the other hostages. He captured weapons and he and Haddock in search of Carreidas whose hat brings Tintin on the right track. In a second bunker Rastapopoulos can while Carreidas splash by Dr. Kroll Spell the truth serum. But the plan to bring Carreidas to disclose his account number fails: That instead puts a confession and confesses all sorts of atrocities. Rastapopoulos throws a tantrum and rams itself a matter of the syringe with the truth serum in the arm. He now admits that he did not intend to pay Dr. Kroll Spell, but will remove it as soon as the number is known. In addition, he has let the junks prepare the Sondonesier with time bombs.

Tim Haddock and free Carreidas and take Kroll Spell and Rastapopoulos caught, but which can escape shortly afterwards in the jungle. Tim's group is hunted by Allan and Sondonesiern. After Tim has received a telepathic message with the description of a way, manages to escape into an underground temple system. Allan pursues them to the temple entrance, but the Sondonesier refuse to go inside when they see symbol Drawings on the rocks. They fear the wrath of the gods, which once came from the sky in " chariot of fire ". Therefore Rastapopoulos decides to give chase with Allan, Colombani, Böhm and Spalding.

In the underground temple Tim Calculus meets again and a strange man named Mik Esdanitoff. This turns out to be a mediator to aliens who had previously contacted Tim telepathically. Esdanitoff told that the temple was built in honor of the aliens, recognizable representations of spaceships and astronauts figures. Rastapopulous ' pursuit is terminated by a volcanic eruption, which also forces Tim and his friends, including flap, to escape from the temple caves. They are rescued by the aliens, but in a hypnotized state. Rastapopoulos and his gang have saved in boat on the sea and climb mesmerized the Flying Saucer in exchange for Tim and his friends.

After the rescue by a seaplane, it looks as if Tim and his friends had the crash of the Carreidas 160 survived in the boat. Due to the hypnosis they can not remember anything more - only Tintin knows what really happened. During a television interview with the rescued there is a reunion with Fridolin Kiesewetter, which tracks the transmission in the family circle. He laughs tears when Professor Calculus presents a metal pin, which consists of non- terrestrial material. One also learns that Dr. Kroll spell was confused found in New Delhi and the memory is lost. Finally, the group continues its journey to Sydney on to the flight 714 of Qantas.

Others

Flight 714 to Sydney stands out from all other albums of the series due to its densely packed, action-packed story from which proceeds essentially within 24 hours. It is also one of the few books where not happen the detectives Schultze and Schulze. The supersonic aircraft Carreidas 160 was designed and illustrated by the specialized air and space vehicles cartoonist Roger Leloup. The figures Laszlo Carreidas and Mik Esdanitoff were inspired by the French industrialist Marcel Dassault, and the chemist, writer Jacques Bergier and spy, who actually Yakov Berger said. Esdanitoff is an employee of the magazine Comete while Bergier worked for the magazine Planète. The book Le Matin of magiciens (1960 ) by Louis Pauwels and Bergier also includes first theories of pre- astronautics, as they have been elaborated by Erich von Däniken and Robert Charroux on. The " fiery chariot of the gods" the sondonesischen Legends in Flight 714 to remember ancient Indian mythological descriptions of Vimanas, which are interpreted by representatives of the pre- astronautics as extraterrestrial spaceships. In the reporter on page 62 in the ninth image of Haddock shakes the hand is Jean Tauren, a fan of Tintin, Hergé the immortalized here.

Missing pages

Hergé made ​​a mistake when he created the work: The band should, as always, have 62 pages, but in the end had 64 pages. Two pages at the end of the story have been removed that concern the salvation Tim and his friends before the boiling sea water. This gives the impression of a cliffhanger: In one scene, the pilot of an aircraft sees the boat on the boiling sea water swim towards and on the next page you will find yourself in the living room Fridolin Kiesewetter.

Criticism

According to Michael Farr, author of a work on Hergé ( "In the footsteps of Tintin " ), Hergé has completed this volume under time pressure. Michael Farr himself thinks that the drawings are advised quite rough in some sections of the album and it " undoubtedly the worst of all albums of Hergé " is even. Hergé told about the concept of " Flight 714 to Sydney ", "I wanted to demystify the adventure stories, with the evil boys ', which is actually not that bad and good boys ' who were actually not that good. " On Positive the largely realistic representation of the Indonesian background Kenneth Yeung expressed in a newspaper article.

Adaptation in other media / translations

Flight 714 to Sydney was also staged as radio plays and released in 1984. The band was filmed as an animated cartoon. He has been translated into at least 28 different languages.