Spooky Ghost Stories by Caitlind L. Alexander

Author:Caitlind L. Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cemetery, tree, witch, stories, ghost, spirit, ship, spooky, scary, haunted, plane, homeschool, 15 minute book
Publisher: LearningIsland.com

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I checked every place. I even lifted up the seat in the john. Nothing. Captain Albacore was no longer on board. Wherever he'd gone to, he'd taken his flight jacket with him, and one other thing.

My emergency survival kit had been taken out from under its seat and was sitting in the aisle, wide open. I went through it quickly, hoping the Captain had felt a little weak and wanted one of them high protein candy bars or something. Then he'd left it open to let me know something was gone.

Something was gone all right. My ELT. The only thing I couldn't figure out was where he'd got to with it. If any of the doors had been opened, believe me, I'd have known it. And the windows were way too small to climb out of.

Suddenly I had the answer whirling around in my stomach, even though my head didn't want to admit it. I touched down in Klamath Falls, fueled up and headed home again without saying a word.

By the time I made it back to L.A. and stowed the plane the news was hitting the airwaves. Flight 413 had finally been located, fifty years to the day after it went down. Somebody had caught the track of an ELT.

It took a week or so for the full story to hit the papers, telling me my gut was right. By then they'd rescued what was left of the bodies and figured out pretty much what had happened.

Some of the passengers and crew had survived the impact, but they'd never had a chance. They were 200 miles from anything that resembled civilization, and all of them had broken bones and pretty severe injuries. It looked like they'd tried to tend to each other. Hopefully they made each other's last moments a little more comfortable, because that's all they could have done.

The coroner's office said they'd all died within a few days of the crash; mostly from the elements or from starving to death. They'd all lost quite a bit of weight before they died.

The FAA took a little longer, but the full story finally came out. Their ruling: Navigational error.

The plane was supposed to be headed for Sacramento. Somehow in the storm they'd gotten a degree or two off course. On a 500 mile trip that would amount to quite a bit after a while. They'd missed Sacramento by 50 miles and overshot it by several hundred. They finally ran out of gas in the northern part of the state and the plane went down. If they'd had enough fuel to stay up another 45 minutes, they'd have hit civilization. They were headed straight for Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Oh, there was one last thing you should know. The investigators had the hardest time puzzling it out. But among the personal effects of one Captain John Albacore, flight navigator, was a brand new ELT, and a newspaper clipping of the accident dated November 3, 1960, -- eighteen days after it had happened.

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