John Travolta finally opens up about traumatic near-death experience – ‘I thought it was over’

John Travolta has been through a lot of tough times in his life. From losing his firstborn child in 2009 to losing the love of his life his wife Kelly Preston in 2020 to breast cancer.
The actor has now opened up about another traumatic event in his life keep reading to know more about this story.
In 1992 John Travolta was flying a corporate jet and had his young family on board his wife the late Kelly Preston and their 8monthold son Jett Travolta. The flight took off from Fort Lauderdale Florida and was scheduled to land in Rockland Maine on Thanksgiving Day.
The family was headed to their island vacation home in Maine to celebrate little Jetts first Thanksgiving. According to a newspaper clipped from the time the incident triggered the Federal Aviation Agency FAA to suspend flights briefly at four airports.
Everything seemed to be going as planned when all of a sudden the plane experienced a total electrical failure recalls Travolta.

“I knew what it felt like to absolutely think youre going to die the 69yearold veteran actor recalled in a recent interview. The actor went on I had two good jet engines but I had no instruments no electric nothing. And I thought it was over.
Travolta was sure he was going to crash his Gulfstream II turbojet but then a miracle occurred. And then as if by a miracle we descended as per the rules to lower altitude. I saw the Washington D C. monument and identified that Washington National Airport was next to it and I made a landing just like Freddie does in the film the actor explained. According to reports from the time the jets tires blew up during the emergency landing
Later on an investigation revealed that everything could have been much worse and possibly deadly as Travoltas aircraft nearly collided with a Boeing 727 carrying 182 passengers.

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At the time of this incident he was 38 years old. Later when he read Frederick Forsyths 1975 novel titled The Sheperd he was inspired. The book has a similar story to one that Travolta experienced. The book tells the story of a young Royal Air Force pilot flying home for Christmas. The young pilot Freddie Hooke also suffers from total electrical failure in his aircraft.
The miracle that Freddie encounters is a pilot who shows up out of nowhere and guides the young Air Force officer to a safe landing.