The Langoliers by Stephen King. Short summary

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While flying on a Boeing 767, eleven people wake up and realize that the other passengers and crew members have disappeared and the plane is being controlled by the autopilot. At the same time, the survivors are forced to flee from the strange creatures, the langoliers.

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Pilot Brian Engle flies from Los Angeles to Boston for his ex-wife’s funeral. Almost immediately after takeoff, Brian falls asleep and is awakened by the scream of a blind girl, Dinah Bellman. It turns out that almost all of the passengers and crew on the plane have disappeared. In addition to Brian and Diane, nine other survivors are discovered.

It turns out that everyone else on the flight was asleep. There are no pilots in the cockpit either, the plane is controlled by autopilot. Brian lands the plane at the airport, but it is completely empty, and all items have lost their properties. The passengers guess that they are caught in a time rift. They decide to fly back to get back to their world. The heroes have to save themselves from the langoliers, time eaters. In this they are helped by Diana, who has supernatural powers. Diana dies from the wounds inflicted on her by Craig the madman.

Brian leads the plane back to the time hole. He puts all the survivors to sleep, only one of the passengers sacrifices himself. A waking Brian lands the plane at the Los Angeles airport.