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Flight KA1530 : The Complete Trilogy – A Psychological Thriller & Horror in the Sky
Flight A Thrilling Psychological Horror – Who Is Behind the Massacre?
Why did the flight attendant do it?
Was she possessed or was she a pawn in a game that started 20 years ago?
When Flight KA1530 lands at Heathrow T2, the world is shaken to its core. All 87 passengers and crew members are found lifeless, their deaths sudden and terrifying. As investigators scramble to uncover the truth, one name rises from the shadows—Beatriz, the flight attendant who may be responsible for this chilling massacre. But is she insane, or is something far darker at play?
Returning to the skies after the Covid pandemic, Beatriz hoped to rebuild her life in the familiar world of aviation in London. But from the moment she steps back into the airline’s headquarters, nothing is as it seems. After witnessing the inexplicable death of a senior crew member, she becomes caught in a web of bizarre occurrences.
Reality bends, long-hidden secrets are exposed, and a terrifying force begins to take flight.
If you’re a fan of Stephen King, this psychological thriller and horror set in modern aviation is a must-read! Hold on tight—this twisted tale will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
Why did the flight attendant do it?
Was she possessed or was she a pawn in a game that started 20 years ago?
When Flight KA1530 lands at Heathrow T2, the world is shaken to its core. All 87 passengers and crew members are found lifeless, their deaths sudden and terrifying. As investigators scramble to uncover the truth, one name rises from the shadows—Beatriz, the flight attendant who may be responsible for this chilling massacre. But is she insane, or is something far darker at play?
Returning to the skies after the Covid pandemic, Beatriz hoped to rebuild her life in the familiar world of aviation in London. But from the moment she steps back into the airline’s headquarters, nothing is as it seems. After witnessing the inexplicable death of a senior crew member, she becomes caught in a web of bizarre occurrences.
Reality bends, long-hidden secrets are exposed, and a terrifying force begins to take flight.
If you’re a fan of Stephen King, this psychological thriller and horror set in modern aviation is a must-read! Hold on tight—this twisted tale will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
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423 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 10, 2025
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Emily Leung
7 books3 followersHi friends, I'm a former private jet flight attendant who has traded the skies for the world of storytelling. I’m passionate about writing horror stories that reflect reality—tales that chill you to the bone while making you think deeply about the world around us.
I current lives in the U.K.
I current lives in the U.K.
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August 7, 2025
When Krone Airways Flight KA1530 from Copenhagen lands at Heathrow with all passengers and cabin crew dead, the finger of suspicion begins to point at flight attendant, Beatriz Sarmento. But why would such a dedicated member of the cabin crew commit such an atrocity, and what does the sigil written on the cockpit door mean?...
Rewind six months. Beatriz can’t wait to take to the skies again and make her mother in Faro proud after being made redundant during Covid, and this time she is determined to make Senior crew. But things are different at Krone Airways since the pandemic, and so is Beatriz…
I will never view airline cabin crew the same again after reading Flight KA1530. Not simply because of the supernatural aspect of the novel, but mainly due to the intense, visceral, and graphic nature of Beatriz’s disturbing trajectory, which is partly fueled by a viciously toxic working environment and culture.
Flight KA1530 is not a throwaway schlock-horror tapping into every aerophobic trope, but a dark and complex psychological thriller liberally dosed with the paranormal. Split into three parts, Leung successfully employs differing techniques and forms across the novel to unfold her compelling, multi-layered narrative. She takes the reader back and forth in time, sharing partial knowledge and half-reveals of impulses and motivations.
The story opens with an article from a monthly aviation newsletter, which discusses the Flight KA1530 tragedy. Leung intersperses media reports and investigator interviews with the story. At first, these offer general plot hints with a touch of foreshadowing.
But gradually they narrow focus, providing unsettling clues and allowing the reader to view characters and events from different, often dispassionate angles that contrast sharply against the tangled, nightmarish atmosphere of the main narrative, which unfolds from Beatriz’s perspective.
Beatriz shares her innermost thoughts and feelings with riveting intimacy and a raw immediacy. The reader is absorbed by her, not yet questioning her veracity, but beginning to experience a lurking sense of unease, heightened by a series of surreal, sinister happenings that whisper of the preternatural and swirl ominously around her.
From the beginning, there is a dark, troubling intensity to the twenty-seven-year-old from Portugal, which flickers through her internal monologues and external observations. She oscillates from poised control to paranoid insecurity. However, Leung ensures that Beatriz’s odd, and often extreme, behavior is gently nuanced in the early stages.
Several plot angles drive toward the fatal flight. Primary among these are the working conditions for ApexCrew and the dynamic between Beatriz and the three other female flight attendants with whom she house-shares.
It's suffocating, spiteful stuff with some horrendously tense, nerve-shredding scenes set within the tight claustrophobia of airplanes or hotel rooms. Leung takes the reader deep into the manipulations, treachery, and back-stabbing, heavily freighted with jealousy and the trading of sexual currency.
Beatriz affords the reader glimpses into her life back home in Portugal, especially the reputation of her grandfather, Miguel. Through Beatriz’s memories of Miguel, Leung begins to build up the occult element of the story, with its foundations in arcane, ritualistic magic and a twisted Faustian pact that connects Krone Airways CEO George Hjortsberg to Beatriz.
As events accelerate toward Flight KA1530, Leung tilts the reader into a distorted reality, where character reliability becomes compromised, and the plot piles on twist after unexpected twist, reveling in emotional violence and grotesque incidents. The reader is still unaware of what exactly happens on the fateful flight, and Leung ratchets up the suspense to a screaming pitch as her prose takes on a hallucinatory, frantic tone with an intense appeal to visualization.
The book would have benefited from a more thorough edit, and some of the Portuguese elements feel a touch underdeveloped. Still, nonetheless, Flight KA1530 is an intelligent, unusual, and chillingly brilliant psychological horror. Highly recommended.
Rewind six months. Beatriz can’t wait to take to the skies again and make her mother in Faro proud after being made redundant during Covid, and this time she is determined to make Senior crew. But things are different at Krone Airways since the pandemic, and so is Beatriz…
I will never view airline cabin crew the same again after reading Flight KA1530. Not simply because of the supernatural aspect of the novel, but mainly due to the intense, visceral, and graphic nature of Beatriz’s disturbing trajectory, which is partly fueled by a viciously toxic working environment and culture.
Flight KA1530 is not a throwaway schlock-horror tapping into every aerophobic trope, but a dark and complex psychological thriller liberally dosed with the paranormal. Split into three parts, Leung successfully employs differing techniques and forms across the novel to unfold her compelling, multi-layered narrative. She takes the reader back and forth in time, sharing partial knowledge and half-reveals of impulses and motivations.
The story opens with an article from a monthly aviation newsletter, which discusses the Flight KA1530 tragedy. Leung intersperses media reports and investigator interviews with the story. At first, these offer general plot hints with a touch of foreshadowing.
But gradually they narrow focus, providing unsettling clues and allowing the reader to view characters and events from different, often dispassionate angles that contrast sharply against the tangled, nightmarish atmosphere of the main narrative, which unfolds from Beatriz’s perspective.
Beatriz shares her innermost thoughts and feelings with riveting intimacy and a raw immediacy. The reader is absorbed by her, not yet questioning her veracity, but beginning to experience a lurking sense of unease, heightened by a series of surreal, sinister happenings that whisper of the preternatural and swirl ominously around her.
From the beginning, there is a dark, troubling intensity to the twenty-seven-year-old from Portugal, which flickers through her internal monologues and external observations. She oscillates from poised control to paranoid insecurity. However, Leung ensures that Beatriz’s odd, and often extreme, behavior is gently nuanced in the early stages.
Several plot angles drive toward the fatal flight. Primary among these are the working conditions for ApexCrew and the dynamic between Beatriz and the three other female flight attendants with whom she house-shares.
It's suffocating, spiteful stuff with some horrendously tense, nerve-shredding scenes set within the tight claustrophobia of airplanes or hotel rooms. Leung takes the reader deep into the manipulations, treachery, and back-stabbing, heavily freighted with jealousy and the trading of sexual currency.
Beatriz affords the reader glimpses into her life back home in Portugal, especially the reputation of her grandfather, Miguel. Through Beatriz’s memories of Miguel, Leung begins to build up the occult element of the story, with its foundations in arcane, ritualistic magic and a twisted Faustian pact that connects Krone Airways CEO George Hjortsberg to Beatriz.
As events accelerate toward Flight KA1530, Leung tilts the reader into a distorted reality, where character reliability becomes compromised, and the plot piles on twist after unexpected twist, reveling in emotional violence and grotesque incidents. The reader is still unaware of what exactly happens on the fateful flight, and Leung ratchets up the suspense to a screaming pitch as her prose takes on a hallucinatory, frantic tone with an intense appeal to visualization.
The book would have benefited from a more thorough edit, and some of the Portuguese elements feel a touch underdeveloped. Still, nonetheless, Flight KA1530 is an intelligent, unusual, and chillingly brilliant psychological horror. Highly recommended.
December 20, 2025
If the fear of flying ever stopped being about crashing and became about not arriving, this book will feel uncomfortably familiar. Flight KA1530 is not about disaster in the traditional sense, but about suspension. About time stretching thin. About reality loosening its grip somewhere above the clouds and never quite tightening again. Christopher Motz writes horror as atmosphere rather than spectacle. Quiet. Patient. Observant.
The flight begins as it should. Passengers board. Engines hum. Routine settles in. And then something slips. People vanish without explanation. Time behaves inconsistently. The cabin becomes a closed loop of confusion and denial, where no one can agree on what is happening, only that something is wrong. The terror does not announce itself. It accumulates in absences, in unanswered questions, in the growing awareness that the sky offers no reassurance.
What makes this story unsettling is its restraint. There is no clear enemy, no chaos to outrun. Only the slow erosion of certainty. The plane continues forward. The lights stay on. Normalcy performs its role while reality thins around it. The characters are not heroes. They are witnesses, trapped in a space where survival does not feel guaranteed simply because the plane remains airborne.
This came very close to hitting every mark for me. The atmosphere is heavy and deliberate, the unease carefully sustained, even if the restraint occasionally left me wanting something deeper and more unsettling by the end.
If you are drawn to horror that lingers rather than shocks, that settles quietly into your chest and stays there, take this one. It will not scream. It will hover.
Note: I received this book as an ARC 🖤
#FlightKA1530
#AtmosphericHorror
#ExistentialHorror
#QuietHorror
#PsychologicalHorror
#ShortHorror
#ClaustrophobicReads
#UnsettlingFiction
The flight begins as it should. Passengers board. Engines hum. Routine settles in. And then something slips. People vanish without explanation. Time behaves inconsistently. The cabin becomes a closed loop of confusion and denial, where no one can agree on what is happening, only that something is wrong. The terror does not announce itself. It accumulates in absences, in unanswered questions, in the growing awareness that the sky offers no reassurance.
What makes this story unsettling is its restraint. There is no clear enemy, no chaos to outrun. Only the slow erosion of certainty. The plane continues forward. The lights stay on. Normalcy performs its role while reality thins around it. The characters are not heroes. They are witnesses, trapped in a space where survival does not feel guaranteed simply because the plane remains airborne.
This came very close to hitting every mark for me. The atmosphere is heavy and deliberate, the unease carefully sustained, even if the restraint occasionally left me wanting something deeper and more unsettling by the end.
If you are drawn to horror that lingers rather than shocks, that settles quietly into your chest and stays there, take this one. It will not scream. It will hover.
Note: I received this book as an ARC 🖤
#FlightKA1530
#AtmosphericHorror
#ExistentialHorror
#QuietHorror
#PsychologicalHorror
#ShortHorror
#ClaustrophobicReads
#UnsettlingFiction
March 20, 2025
How often does a book keep you guessing until the very last page?
Flight KA1530 : The Complete Trilogy – A Psychological Thriller & Horror in the Sky by Emily Leung. This one does exactly that! A psychological thriller mixed with horror, it takes readers on a chilling journey where reality bends, secrets unravel, and the unknown lurks in every corner.
This book is an intense and spine-chilling read.
The highlight I loved about this book is how masterfully suspense is built with every chapter. The storyline is crafted with eerie precision, making every moment unpredictable. A mix of psychological horror, mystery, and an aviation backdrop makes this book uniquely gripping.
The author has skillfully woven a deeply unsettling yet captivating narrative, keeping the reader engaged from the first page. The eerie atmosphere and mind-bending twists add to the thrill, making it a book you won’t forget.
The writing is sharp, immersive, and packed with psychological depth, making every scene feel vivid and suspenseful. The unpredictability and eerie buildup ensure a nail-biting experience.
This book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers, horror, and gripping mysteries. I found this book to be an electrifying, edge-of-the-seat experience one that lingers long after the last page.
The author’s ability to blend fear, suspense, and deep storytelling is remarkable, making this a standout read. I can’t wait to explore more of their work!
Overall, a haunting and unputdownable read.
Flight KA1530 : The Complete Trilogy – A Psychological Thriller & Horror in the Sky by Emily Leung. This one does exactly that! A psychological thriller mixed with horror, it takes readers on a chilling journey where reality bends, secrets unravel, and the unknown lurks in every corner.
This book is an intense and spine-chilling read.
The highlight I loved about this book is how masterfully suspense is built with every chapter. The storyline is crafted with eerie precision, making every moment unpredictable. A mix of psychological horror, mystery, and an aviation backdrop makes this book uniquely gripping.
The author has skillfully woven a deeply unsettling yet captivating narrative, keeping the reader engaged from the first page. The eerie atmosphere and mind-bending twists add to the thrill, making it a book you won’t forget.
The writing is sharp, immersive, and packed with psychological depth, making every scene feel vivid and suspenseful. The unpredictability and eerie buildup ensure a nail-biting experience.
This book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers, horror, and gripping mysteries. I found this book to be an electrifying, edge-of-the-seat experience one that lingers long after the last page.
The author’s ability to blend fear, suspense, and deep storytelling is remarkable, making this a standout read. I can’t wait to explore more of their work!
Overall, a haunting and unputdownable read.
November 5, 2025
Wow. I don't know where to begin, but this blew my mind. The different characters and their development, their experiences, the timeline, twists and the end….wow. Quite early on you basically learn about the end of the story, but not any details, so you know what you need to follow the story and keep it interesting and suspenseful, but you don't know enough for the end to be spoiled. Piece by piece, more and more is revealed that starts allowing you to put the puzzle pieces together. This was executed so well.
I don't often read long books, because it tends to take me too long or it makes it harder for me to finish it if I don't end up enjoying it, but this one was SO worth it and I'm so happy I got an advanced review copy.
I received an ARC for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. The only thing that was a little frustrating is the mistakes in grammar, tense, spelling, sentence structure etc. I don't know if it's just the version I read or another legit reason, but I've read quite a few ARCs by now and don't want this issue to affect the rating.
In conclusion, this is 100% worth 5 stars because whoo, what a ride.
I don't often read long books, because it tends to take me too long or it makes it harder for me to finish it if I don't end up enjoying it, but this one was SO worth it and I'm so happy I got an advanced review copy.
I received an ARC for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. The only thing that was a little frustrating is the mistakes in grammar, tense, spelling, sentence structure etc. I don't know if it's just the version I read or another legit reason, but I've read quite a few ARCs by now and don't want this issue to affect the rating.
In conclusion, this is 100% worth 5 stars because whoo, what a ride.
October 18, 2025
I read this ARC while traveling through Europe which was either amazing or horrible timing.. Emily Leung created characters and situations that so closely resembled reality that it was like reading the news or a documentary.
The story of Beatriz, a professional flight attendant, is one we almost all can relate to: beat down by life, struggling for money, enduring loneliness after the pandemic. But she takes her life into her own hands: by obsessing over the “hustle culture” and doing whatever she can to get to the top in her new role.
This story was intermixed with cuts from interviews from other staff, newspaper articles, and a book written about the incident. It made for a quick read that kept me guessing to the end.
I love love love a “woman descends into madness” plot and boy oh boy do you dive into madness with Bea.
This book could have been edited a bit more thoroughly for grammar and had some of the character development built out more — especially with Bea’s family and religious ties. But it was very good regardless!
The story of Beatriz, a professional flight attendant, is one we almost all can relate to: beat down by life, struggling for money, enduring loneliness after the pandemic. But she takes her life into her own hands: by obsessing over the “hustle culture” and doing whatever she can to get to the top in her new role.
This story was intermixed with cuts from interviews from other staff, newspaper articles, and a book written about the incident. It made for a quick read that kept me guessing to the end.
I love love love a “woman descends into madness” plot and boy oh boy do you dive into madness with Bea.
This book could have been edited a bit more thoroughly for grammar and had some of the character development built out more — especially with Bea’s family and religious ties. But it was very good regardless!
November 5, 2025
Flight KA1530 starts with such a chilling premise: a plane lands and everyone on board is dead. The setup really pulled me in, and I loved the eerie, trapped-in-the-sky atmosphere. There were moments that genuinely creeped me out, and I appreciated how the author blended psychological tension with hints of something supernatural.
That said, I didn’t connect with it as much as I hoped. Personally, I’m a bit tired of stories that bring up COVID or pandemic themes, it just takes me out of the story. I also found some parts a little confusing toward the end, and I think a bit more clarity would’ve made the story hit harder emotionally.
Still, it’s a creative, unsettling read with a great concept and plenty of suspense, it just didn’t fully land for me.
I received a free advance review copy from BookSirens, and I’m leaving this review voluntarily.
That said, I didn’t connect with it as much as I hoped. Personally, I’m a bit tired of stories that bring up COVID or pandemic themes, it just takes me out of the story. I also found some parts a little confusing toward the end, and I think a bit more clarity would’ve made the story hit harder emotionally.
Still, it’s a creative, unsettling read with a great concept and plenty of suspense, it just didn’t fully land for me.
I received a free advance review copy from BookSirens, and I’m leaving this review voluntarily.
October 29, 2025
This was a fantastic psychological thriller novel, it had that element that I was looking for from a flight attendant massacre. It's a scary idea that you could die on a flight up in the air. The characters felt like they belonged in this world and was invested in what was happening to them. Emily Leung was able to create something that was unique and was able to weave the tale and use their experience to make the story realistic. I was invested in the tension and how it uses the aviation perfectly.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
November 19, 2025
Bea is made redundant from her job as a flight attendant during the pandemic. She gets work again finally 18 months later but she’s not the same as when she left it.
This was wild. I enjoyed the differing viewpoints and sources of information, it was interesting to get Bea’s perspective then get a more maybe honest perspective from her crew (although maybe they lied too, it’s all unreliable narrators). The story was built up really effectively and I like how I don’t know exactly what happened. It was an awesome book, thoroughly enjoyed it.
This was wild. I enjoyed the differing viewpoints and sources of information, it was interesting to get Bea’s perspective then get a more maybe honest perspective from her crew (although maybe they lied too, it’s all unreliable narrators). The story was built up really effectively and I like how I don’t know exactly what happened. It was an awesome book, thoroughly enjoyed it.
November 24, 2025
Para quem ama voar, como eu, este livro é muito assustador, pois o que mostra sobre os bastidores de uma empresa de transporte aéreo não é nada lisonjeiro. Mas para quem gosta de um bom thriller, e um pouco de terror, é um bom livro.
November 28, 2025
My Rating: 4 ½
“Flight KA1530” is a thrilling mix of psychological twists and a touch of horror, all set in the fascinating world of aviation.
I found this book to be so well written and absolutely gripping! The storyline is unique and kept me guessing throughout. The eerie atmosphere really pulled me in, making me curious about what would happen next.
The characters are interesting and well-developed, though I have to admit I didn’t really bond with any of them. I think this was a clever choice by the author to add to the suspense and intrigue.
It’s tough to review this book without giving away too much, but I will say that I couldn’t put it down—I enjoyed every moment of it!
If you’re looking for a Psychological thriller with a hint of horror I would highly recommend adding this to your TBR!
But before you do please do keep in mind that this book might not be for everyone, especially if you’re a nervous flyer or have a flight coming up. So approach it with caution!
A huge thank you to Emily for sending me a digital review copy of this captivating story. All my thoughts in this review are completely my own, and I’m excited to share them with you voluntarily.
“Flight KA1530” is a thrilling mix of psychological twists and a touch of horror, all set in the fascinating world of aviation.
I found this book to be so well written and absolutely gripping! The storyline is unique and kept me guessing throughout. The eerie atmosphere really pulled me in, making me curious about what would happen next.
The characters are interesting and well-developed, though I have to admit I didn’t really bond with any of them. I think this was a clever choice by the author to add to the suspense and intrigue.
It’s tough to review this book without giving away too much, but I will say that I couldn’t put it down—I enjoyed every moment of it!
If you’re looking for a Psychological thriller with a hint of horror I would highly recommend adding this to your TBR!
But before you do please do keep in mind that this book might not be for everyone, especially if you’re a nervous flyer or have a flight coming up. So approach it with caution!
A huge thank you to Emily for sending me a digital review copy of this captivating story. All my thoughts in this review are completely my own, and I’m excited to share them with you voluntarily.
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