In the history of aviation accidents, some tragedies acquire strange stories that linger long after investigators determine what went wrong. One of the most unsettling accounts linked to a major air disaster involves American Airlines Flight 191, the catastrophic crash near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on 25 May 1979 that killed 273 people.
Years later, a man named David Booth claimed he had experienced repeated visions of the crash in the days leading up to the disaster, disturbing scenes he said he reported to authorities before the aircraft ever took off.
A vision that repeated night after night
Booth later described the experience as something different from an ordinary dream.“Everybody talks about a dream and everybody has dreams. I didn’t have a dream, I had a vision.”According to Booth, the scene unfolded the same way every time. He said he could see a bright day, a large airport and a long runway with a large passenger aircraft preparing for departure.“The dream would always start out in the same way. It was a bright sunlit day and I’m looking at a very large airport and a very long runway and there’s a really large plane.”In the vision, Booth said he could clearly identify the airline.“I can see American Airlines. I see the plane start to taxi on the runway and it gathers up speed.”But just as the aircraft began its takeoff, something seemed wrong.“All of a sudden, as it’s going off, there’s a perception in my mind that there’s something wrong with the sound that the engine is making.”Booth said the aircraft then lifted into the air briefly before catastrophe struck.Speaking later on the YouTube channel Our Paranormal World, he described seeing the aircraft climb and then suddenly roll before plunging back toward the ground.
A vision that repeated night after night
Booth later described the experience as something different from an ordinary dream.“Everybody talks about a dream and everybody has dreams. I didn’t have a dream, I had a vision.”According to Booth, the scene unfolded the same way every time. He said he could see a bright day, a large airport and a long runway with a large passenger aircraft preparing for departure.“The dream would always start out in the same way. It was a bright sunlit day and I’m looking at a very large airport and a very long runway and there’s a really large plane.”In the vision, Booth said he could clearly identify the airline.“I can see American Airlines. I see the plane start to taxi on the runway and it gathers up speed.”But just as the aircraft began its takeoff, something seemed wrong.“All of a sudden, as it’s going off, there’s a perception in my mind that there’s something wrong with the sound that the engine is making.”Booth said the aircraft then lifted into the air briefly before catastrophe struck.Speaking later on the YouTube channel Our Paranormal World, he described seeing the aircraft climb and then suddenly roll before plunging back toward the ground.
