- Federal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.
- A commercial airliner makes a normal landing at an airport and taxis to its normal stop. The only problem is that when the doors are opened, there are no passengers and no pilots. An experienced FAA investigator, Grant Sheckly. is assigned to the case. Sheckly has a good reputation and good track record at solving crashes but this case is a difficult one explain. It all begins to get clearer when he realizes that not everyone is seeing exactly the same thing. For some the seats are blue, others see brown and others see red. They all see different registration numbers on the aircraft. Sheckly can only come to one conclusion: what they are seeing is an illusion.—garykmcd
- When the Flight 107 from Buffalo lands perfectly at the airport, soon the airport responsible staff realizes that the plane has no pilots, crew, passengers or luggage. The experienced FAA inspector Grant Sheckly arrives at the airport to find out what might have happened. He discusses with the vice president Bengston, the public relations Malloy, the mechanic Robbins, and the attendant Cousins, but they do not come to a conclusion. Sheckly observes that each of them is seeing different color of the seats and plane numbers, so he affirms that the plane is an illusion, and is proposed to risk his life defending his theory.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Flight 107 from Buffalo, NY, arrives at an airport and taxi's to a stop. The men on the ground wait for the plane's doors to open. When they are met with a few minutes of silence, they open the doors passenger and cargo doors, only to find a strange sight. The plane is carrying no baggage, no passengers, and no pilots!
A man named Grant Sheckly is sent by the FAA. His flawless 22-year record at finding causes and solving cases is put to the test, as he interviews and questions Vice President Bengston, PR man Malloy, mechanic Robbins, and ramp attendant Cousins.
6 hours pass, and Sheckly is no closer to an answer. However, he and Malloy note another bizarre fact: none of the relatives of the flight's 13 missing passengers has called or complained about where they are! As they talk about the passenger compartment, Robbins mentions the vacant blue seats. This causes Sheckly to mention that he saw the seats as brown. Both men are then refuted by Bengston who claims they were red.
Sheckly then makes note of the numbers on the plane's tail, and has each of the men read the numbers. Instead of what Sheckly sees, each of the men reads a different number! Sheckly then proposes a theory: they were told that an airplane would be landing, but in reality, it never did. Their minds are tricking them, because if someone says that a plane is there, they believe it has to be! Each man knows the basics of the plane, but their minds are each filling in the blanks regarding things such as the seat color and registration numbers. The others believe Sheckly to have slipped off his rocker, but Sheckly feels he can prove his theory.
Robbins moves the airplane out of the hanger, and starts the engine. Sheckly's test is simple: he will stick his hand in the plane's engine blades. If his theory is correct, he won't be harmed. The others watch as he inches closer to the blades. Mere feet from them...Robbins and the airplane disappear! Sheckly feels vindicated that his theory was correct, but suddenly, Bengston and Malloy also disappear before his eyes! Sheckly calls out to the men, but receives no answer.
Returning to the Operations Room of the airport, Sheckly encounters Bengston and Malloy, who have no recollection of the mysterious airplane or of the test Sheckly just conducted. Going over to Bengston, Sheckly notes a newspaper he's reading, that tells of flight 107 having landed safely earlier that day.
As the men speak, it is revealed that there was another flight 107 before this one. 17 years before, a Flight 107 left from Buffalo, but was never found or recovered: the only flas in Sheckly's 'perfect' track record.
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