Tintin falls asleep for a short amount of time and wakes up to find the lifeboat on fire and Haddock drunk. When Tintin tries to extinguish the fire, Haddock gets angry and pushes Tintin, capsizing the boat. Suddenly, a seaplane attacks them with machine guns. Tintin takes a shot at the plane with a handgun which miraculously stops the engine and the pilots are forced to land on the water. As the pilots are fixing the plane Tintin and Haddock sneak up on them, hijack the plane after it is fixed, tie them up, and set course for Spain. While they are flying, they encounter a storm and Haddock’s drunken behavior causes them to crash land in the Sahara desert, where the pilots escape. After hiking across the desert for a long time and almost dying of …show more content…
Thomson and Thompson heard Tintin’s message on the radio days before, and meet up with him at the port. When they learn that Omar Ben Salaad, a wealthy merchant, sold the tins of crab, Tintin tells the detectives to discreetly investigate Ben Salaad. Tintin finds the kidnappers and saves Haddock. Meanwhile, the detectives successfully tracked down Salaad and are interrogation him in his house. Tintin and Haddock become intoxicated due to the fumes from wine barrels punctured by the shootout with the gang. Haddock chases one of the gang members from the wine cellar to an entrance behind a bookcase in Ben Salaad’s house. The bookcase hits Salaad, Snowy bites Salaad which causes him to shoot his gun into the ceiling, detaching the chandelier which falls onto his head, knocking him out. When Tintin sober up, he realizes Omar Ben Salaad is the leader of the drug cartel due to his necklace of a crab with golden claws. Allan tries to escape by stealing a boat, but Tintin catches him. The police arrest the entire gang and liberate the Japanese