Flight #116 Is Down

Flight #116 Is Down! 

Caroline B. Cooney

     In a little town, a girl named Heidi is alone while her parents are on vacation. Across town seventeen-year-old Patrick Farquhar a volunteer rescue worker, needs some action in his life. So far, Patrick has done for his town is go to a few calls that shouldn't have been made. One was an elderly lady calling because she scraped her hand on a potato peeler that didn't even break her skin.

     

    As fight #116 is being boarded two brothers Daniel and Tuck get on. They are flying to New York to go to their father’s wedding. Ever since Tuck’s parents have been divorced, he has been somewhat depressed. With Tuck being down all the time Daniel is basically all by himself. 

     

    The plane gets father towards New York City the flight attendance start getting worried. Eventually the plane starts to get bad turbulence and it crashes on Heidi’s property. When she hears the crash, she has no idea what to do. So she calls 911. On the phone, Patrick’s mother is the dispatcher. She thinks it’s a prank call until Heidi gets really mad at her for not believing her, so she sends out a call. It takes a while for anyone to show up. Then Patrick arrives first unknown to what he is going to find.

     

     It will take great courage to help the passengers of Flight 116 and many will die in the process. But Heidi and Patrick will work together try and get as many passengers to safety. I really enjoyed this book. Its not usual that I would read a book like this.