‘I knew what it felt like to absolutely think you’re going to die.’
John Travolta‘s latest project is directing a short film based on The Shepherd, author Frederick Forsyth’s 1975 novella about a pilot whose aircraft suffers electrical failure during a flight. The Grease star can relate: he also once had a near-fatal experience while flying a plane.
“The kismet of the project is, I actually experienced a total electrical failure, not in a Vampire but a corporate jet, over Washington DC, prior to my discovering the book,” Travolta told BBC about the 1992 incident during a recent screening of The Shepherd.
