Peretti, Frank E. Mayday at Two Thousand Five-Hundred. NY: Thomas Nelson 2002, 292 pages. (General Fiction)Meet Jay Cooper: he is a young teenager who knows how to fly an airplane! Jay and his uncle Rex were going on an in state pleasure trip to take pictures of Mount Rainier and to give Jay a little more flight experience. About an hour or two into their flight they already had some great elegant pictures, but when passed an airport where a Boeing 757 was taking off. Then a friend of Jay’s dad saw one of the Boeings was flying too low and wobbling and losing altitude instead of going faster and gaining altitude. The wind pressure from the jet engines of the Boeing 757 was so strong it hit their plane, and they both were knocked out. When Jay woke up, he realized that his uncle was not going to awaken because he had a concussion. He was not dead; Jay still could hear his heartbeat, but something was wrong! Jay couldn’t see! When his father’s friend called him on the radio Jay answered. Then his friend said “I’m going to tell you what to do until we get to the end.” The middle part of the book is very thrilling because, the book kept you on the edge of your seat. That’s it…. I can’t tell you the end. This in my opinion was a very, very great book because, it wasn’t boring, there was always something going on!
Reviewed by: SOS
