The Best Flight Ever

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke

✔ An alien inspired short novel.
✔ A Fermi Paradox and the Theory of Great Filter inspired Science Fiction.
✔ A story created through a balance of imagination and curiosity.

Samuel Hudson together with his family are heading back to Los Angeles aboard a flight that was attacked by an unknown object. Their airplane suddenly turns 360 degrees after a very bright light from the object hits them. Everyone on the plane turns unconscious. Would they survive?