Summary
Den Collier has a legacy to be a pilot that was handed down to him by his grandfather. And when a tragic event in his life teaches him that his time on this earth is too precious to waste, he fulfills his legacy and learns to fly, then builds his own airplane as his personal escape machine.
A few years later, he sells the plane and concentrates on raising his sons. After two decades, his boys are out on their own, and Den is drawn to flying once again. He buys a plane in California and heads off on a flight back to Michigan. But he has no sooner gotten into the air when his legacy begins to seem more like a curse, and his childhood dream of flying collapses into a nightmare fight for survival.
Charlevoix, MI—A small amphibious airplane is on the bottom of Lake Michigan after crashing during the Fourth of July weekend—but fasten your seatbelts because the pilot says how it got there is one barnstormer of a story. (from a Record-Eagle newspaper article)