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Flight 714, or Flight 714 For Sydney, is a Tintin graphic novel.
Tintin and crew happen upon their old friend Skut who is now the chief pilot for an eccentric millionare while changing flights in Sydney.
Offered a ride on a prototype private jet, Tintin and friends are thrown into a devious plot to steal the millionare's fortune by the evil Rastopopulos.
An active volcano and friendly aliens figure in the story. Indeed, the story does appear to have been influenced by the ancient astronauts literature in mode at the time.
Herge made an error when drawing the story. It was only meant to be 62 pages long, but when he finished, it was found to be 64 pages long. Two pages were removed. The two omitteed pages were meant to have appeared toward the end of the story, and covered the rescue of Tintin's group from an erupting volcano.
The omission meant that the reader sees a cliffhanger at the bottom of one page where a reporter in a plane who is watching a raft with Tintin's group inside exclaims that "they will be boiled alive!". On the next page, the story suddenly switches to Jolyon Wagg's living room a few days after the previous scene as he watches a TV interview of Tintin and his associates.
