Why did the narrator begin to pray towards the end?

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The narrator began to pray towards the end because he knew that if the fuel emptied at that point of time, he would not be able to climb to the minimum five hundred feet required for bailing out. A jet fighter at hundred feet, and without an engine, was a veritable death-trap.

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