Gann is truly the artist. Happily, Gann never gets too technical for the layman to understand.

Happily, Gann never gets too technical for the layman to understand. This is a rare combination -- Gann not only has many wonderful yarns to spin but is a writer of truly top-drawer literary ability.

Gann concludes, Perhaps we should hide in childlike visions of afterlife wherein those pronounced good may play upon harps and those pronounced evil, stoke fires?

• A mid-air collision is averted simply because Gann chose to descend 50 ft to his assigned altitude of 5,000 a few moments before.
• Why did Gann chose to descend?
• etc Gann describes an encounter with freezing rain on a night trip from BNA to EWR.

Gann notes that due to some unknown quirk, the DC-3 they were scheduled to fly that night was down for maintenance, and an ancient DC-2 was substituted.

The war over, the tyranny of seniority numbers frustrates Gann. He is one of them but what sets him apart and what they revere is that Gann wrote so well about flight.

Whatever, Gann is a survivor. Striving for perfection, Gann saved their lives.

In Fate is the Hunter, by telling of his experiences in nearly ten thousand hours of flight, Gann leaves it to us to make the final interpretation for his survival.