When a series of unexpected events, involving in aviation's worst accidents, suddenly appear as ghostly apparitions all across the globe, it is up to Mystery Inc. to find out why these events are happening.
But, they also have to deal with their pa...
Whilst the Mystery Machine drove along the interstate to Chicago, Illinois, Braedey was reading all about the American Airlines DC-10 that had crashed in Illinois, and it being the worst accident on American history.
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by American Airlines from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport. A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 used for this flight on May 25, 1979, crashed moments after takeoff from Chicago. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground. It is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.
Investigators found that as the jet was beginning its takeoff rotation, engine number one, on the left wing, separated and flipped over the top of the wing. As the engine separated from the aircraft it severed hydraulic lines that locked the wing's leading edge slats in place and damaged a three-foot section of the left wing's leading edge. Aerodynamic forces acting on the wing resulted in an uncommanded retraction of the outboard slats. As the jet began to climb, the damaged left wing, with no engine, produced far less lift than the right wing, effectively stalling, with its slats still deployed and its engine running at full takeoff speed. The extremely disrupted and unbalanced aerodynamics of the aircraft caused it to roll abruptly to the left until it was partially inverted, reaching a bank angle of 112 degrees, before crashing in an open field by a trailer park near the end of the runway. The engine separation was attributed to damage to the pylon structure holding the engine to the wing, caused by faulty maintenance procedures at American Airlines.
'Ihavenodoubtthatthisaccidentcould'vebeenavoidediftheydidn'tshortcutthemaintenanceprocedures.' Braedey thought to himself. He looked down at one of the images of a newspaper article about the crash, and was spooked by the look of the paper.
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"Jinkies. 270 people dead in that one crash?" Velma looked at the old newspaper article. "That is terrible."
"Yeah. Those people didn't deserve to die." Braedey slightly growled. "And it's because of cheap shortcut maintenance procedures from American Airlines." Braedey then looked to Valka, who was fast asleep, and inside of a thick comfortable sleeping bag. "I'm still surprised that Mum would know about a type of spirit like these ghost planes."
"Braedey, have you, like, forgotten something?" Shaggy spoke up. "Valka is a sorceress, so she may have seen a lot of unexpected things in her time."
"Oh, right." Braedey gently smacked his forehead. "I should've known." Then, he yawned a little, and lay on his side. "Well, see you guys in the morning."
With that, he fell asleep, whilst Velma covered his form with a blanket, and she too fell asleep with Shaggy, with Fred still driving, but stopping once or twice to have a nap. After getting some desired rest that he needed, Fred continued to drive on, and head off down to Chicago.
