Flyabout

Flyabout, was inspired by the true story of 17-year old Juliane Koepcke who was ejected from an aircraft at nearly 12,000 feet and survived the fall into the Peruvian jungle below with only minor injuries. The setting of this fictional novel, Flyabout, finds Professor Derek Hunter and beautiful flight attendant, Michelle Sherry, hurtling to the surface of the Australian Outback after a catastrophic cargo door explosion blasts open a ragged gaping hole in the side of their aging airliner. Violently ejected out of the aircraft through the hole, Michelle and Derek fall to earth through a brutal thunderstorm. Their lives are spared when ferocious updrafts drastically slow their descent. While they land in the midst of dense muddy underbrush, (hurt but alive), the crippled and uncontrollable airliner flies onward until crashing hundreds of miles away. When rescue never comes they undertake a deadly gamble