I ordered The Ghost of Flight 401 after students requested
the title. They had read a very intriguing part of this story in reading class
and wanted to have the full story of the event.
John G. Fuller is an author of nonfiction titles. He usually
investigates heady subjects such as nuclear disasters. One of his nonfiction
titles is entitled: Fever: The Hunt for a
New Killer Virus. So he was very
skeptical about the story he had heard regarding apparitions of a pilot and
flight engineer who had passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly when the Eastern
Airlines Lockheed Tristar L-1011 they
were piloting crashed in the Florida Everglades near Miami airport. Of the 176
people aboard, 75 survived the horrific crash.
Although this book is written for an adult audience,
interested young adult readers can certainly understand it and benefit from the
detailed research that John Fuller conducted in order to understand the strange
sightings stewardesses and other pilots were having of the pilot—Bob Loft--and
the flight engineer—Don Repo--after the crash on other airlines.
I really liked this book! It made me think about the possibility
to life after death in a new way. I found the thorough way in which the author told
the story to be most compelling.
Students who are mature readers and are open to new ways of
thinking about ghosts will enjoy this title.