THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401 by John G. Fuller

Author:John G. Fuller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-02-11T23:00:00+00:00

“If we may no longer speak or even think about the wider connections, we are without a compass and hence in danger of losing our way.”

—Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond

Chapter VIII

The stories were pretty heady stuff, and hard to absorb. After she had recounted her part of the story, Denise said, “The strange part was the missing logbook pages. Every time we’d get our hands on #318’s log, it would always be a new one. But the things that happened to us happened before any of the stories began circulating. We weren’t influenced by them at all. All we wanted to do was to keep quiet about it as far as Eastern was concerned, and keep it among ourselves. Later, when many girls started refusing to go down into the lower galley, I used to say to them: ‘Why are you so afraid of someone who has never done anything? He’s always been helpful, as far as I’ve heard.’”

“All right,” I said, “the most graphic appearance seems to be the one at Newark. How can I get more information on that? Who was the captain? Can you remember the date?” “Now you come to the big problem,” Denise said. “Emily Palmer, who’s been keeping very thorough notes on the incidents, has a lot of trouble with this sort of thing. Have you talked with her yet?”

I told her I had talked briefly with her and was going to see her shortly.

“Good,” Denise said. “She’ll be very helpful, as long as you keep her name out of the papers. Anyway, the trouble she’s found is that when you have an incident like the one at Newark, everybody is so freaked out about it, they forget to notice all the details they normally would. People talk much more freely then because of the excitement of the time. But the next day, they’ll clam up and pretend to know nothing about it. They’re running scared. Take me, for instance. I never remember to write down dates or flight numbers—but I can remember the incidents very clearly. The cockpit crews don’t like to talk about the incidents at all. It’s just like the UFO situation. Pilots will admit confidentially they’ve seen them, but they’ve learned now never to report them or talk about them on the outside.”

I later learned more about the problem Denise was talking about. I was lucky that the flight attendants I was interviewing were willing to share whatever information they had with me. Others were not so cordial, perhaps because they were distrustful. In a way, I couldn’t blame them. Most people are very reluctant to talk about experiences considered to be paranormal. The fear of ridicule seemed to be as strong as the fear of losing a job.

“You’ve got over five thousand flight attendants on Eastern and more than two thousand pilots and engineers. You can’t get their home phone numbers. Even we can’t get them from the office. And you don’t know who to call if you did. I don’t envy you your job.

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