Paul was an excellent pilot and had flown planes for 30 years yet, due to a bad plane crash tragedy in the past injured a part of his brain causing severe hallucinations when flying. Sadly, Brad his co-pilot witnessed an alarming act by Paul during a severe thunderstorm on Flight 117 where he envisioned something huge destroying the plane's left wing, which could have placed them and many passengers lives in jeopardy. Consequently, Paul concluded that he wasn't quite well enough to continue his career in flight aviation and decided to retire for good but phenomenally, the ending result of what happen to the plane's left wing was not delusional.