A man claims he experienced a ‘vision’ foretelling one of the most devastating aviation accidents in US history.
This involved American Airlines Flight 191, which tragically crashed shortly after departing from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
The disaster claimed the lives of all 271 passengers and crew on board, in addition to two individuals on the ground.
In the days before the catastrophe, David Booth began having intense and disturbing dreams.
Describing his visions, he told Paranormal World on YouTube: “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.
“I can see American Airlines. I see the plane start to taxi on the runway and it gathers up speed. 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 detailed how the plane would ascend straight up, then turn and crash into the ground.
Upon impact, it ‘explodes in this humongous inferno and then this wave of despair’.
He described the sensation as ‘just like a physical object would just hit you right in the chest’.
Experiencing such a dream once would be unsettling for anyone, but Booth continued to have the dream repeatedly, night after night.
He explained: “Every day, it got worse and worse and worse. Not knowing what to do, not knowing what I was supposed to do.
“Not being able to forget an image seared, not just into my mind, but into the very fabric of my entire being.”
David contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and spoke with Jack Barker, the FAA’s public affairs director.
Barker recalled: “David sounded perfectly sane and credible, there was nothing kookie about him at all. He’d had a disturbing dream seven nights in a row (at that point).
“He had a problem and I listened to him. It was my job to do that.”
However, Barker mentioned there was little he could do: “David’s dream didn’t give me enough information to do anything with it. It didn’t give a location, it didn’t give a flight – some numbers which didn’t make any sense.”
He concluded: “I said: ‘Thank you. There’s nothing we can do about it but thank you for the information’.”
When the disaster struck, Barker was shocked by the accuracy of Booth’s vision: “It hit me just how accurate he was. What he dreamed was basically what happened.”
“You’ve got to experience that to understand how eerie it is.”