Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26416562-20150605200508/@comment-26054278-20150610102217

Banningk1979 wrote:

Also, planes these days really wouldn't be able to crash in the US without someone noticing pretty quickly. Planes must depart and arrive on a schedule at registered air strips. Even private chartered jets are still subject to federal flight laws, so if a plane simply crashed somewhere in Arkansas, someone would know pretty quickly and emergency services would be on the spot in a matter or hours, if the location is remote enough.

In other words, when the plane left one airport, another airport was already expecting it to land at a specific time. If that doesn't happen, questions are asked right away. And since the plane would have crashed along its flight path, it wouldn't be that difficult to find it.

This seems to be creating a difficult plot hole. You may do better to simply work out the entire plane crash, as it doesn't seem to add much to the story anyway.

Also, having your character admit to killing someone at the end would certainly lead to an investigation. Even if the victim were to turn out to be a figment of Todd's imagination, he could still expect a battery of psychological exams to follow. You havve some very good points there. Perhaps the first plot hole could be fixed if there was a specific reason for the plane to go off of the course it was going, with not much time to tell anybody? Why it would do that would be up to the author.

If that last paragraph was removed, it might help fix that second hole.