'Manifest' Season 1: Did Grant Finnegan's thriller book 'Flight 19' inspire the Jeff Rake show?
'Manifest' has never ceased to surprise us, and even after the NBC show reached the end of its first season, fans are still talking about it. This actually proves just how intense the mystery is when it comes to the show created by Jeff Rake. However, as the storyline of the show deals with Montego Air Flight 828, which left Hawaii in 2013 and reached New York in 2018, fans have come up with a mind-boggling discovery. Quite similar to Rake's plot is the book 'Flight 19' from author Grant Finnegan.
Finnegan's book deals with an extremely familiar plot. The official summary of the story reads as: "Pacific International Airlines Flight PI019 — Flight 19 — leaves Honolulu airport on a routine trip to Los Angeles on Thursday, January 17th, 2019. Two hours in, with 210 people on-board, the plane vanishes into thin air."
It continues: "An exhaustive search finds no trace of Flight 19, its passengers, or its crew, and the disappearance becomes modern aviation's greatest mystery. Five years later, an incoming plane asks for permission to enter LAX airspace. But there’s something unusual about this apparently routine request. It’s the missing Pacific International flight. What’s more, those on-board don’t yet know the year is now 2024. The last five years have passed them by in a matter of minutes. Flight 19 takes you through the months just after these people learn of their fate: their husbands and wives remarried, houses sold, jobs lost, possessions given away or disposed of, and loved ones dead and buried. This is a story that will touch everyone who cares about the life they have."
