Several of our natural fears are preyed upon – flying, being alone, creatures with scary teeth – but there's a great second level of terror being worked into the story: the fear of losing (or wasting) time. It's a great idea, with the execution both grounded and terrifying. Somehow, the plane flew through a rift, and the characters who survived the flight are trapped in that fragment of the past, waiting for the inevitable to happen. Then, the Langoliers appear: terrifying creatures that eat lost time, swallow up the past.
The survivors hear static, in the distance some crackling that they can't explain. There's something wrong with the air, and with all food and water: everything is stale and tasteless. There's nobody in the terminal, nobody else anywhere. They land the plane – one of the surviving passengers is a pilot – and step out into the airport to discover that they're totally alone. Everybody else on the flight has disappeared, leaving the plane without a crew. The main characters are all asleep on American Pride Flight 29, a red-eye flight across America.
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