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Book Description:
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Read this on an airplane and, though it is about a deadly in-flight incident, the detailed explanations of how planes work made me feel much better about flying. It's also highly entertaining and a quick read.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
When an airplane makes an emergency landing at the Los Angeles airport, the jet's manufacturer gives a young woman named Casey the task of discovering what went wrong. Was it a manufacturing defect, mechanical trouble, or an inept terrorist attack? Casey must find answers while fending off an ambitious journalist who wants to make the story of flight 545 her big one--even at the expense of the facts.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The suspense that builds in this book is great. And then the finish is surprising and a little unexpected, at least how I thought it would turn out anyway.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Fiction, Engineering, and Airplanes.
Another book I liked enough to buy 2 copies of. Maybe not the best book to read while on a cross-country flight, but I did.
A story of one woman's fight to keep a plane from being grounded due to an odd turbulence problem. She's not the pilot, she works for the company that made the plane, and is trying to find out what really happened to the plane before it landed with seriously injured (and a few dead) passengers and crew.
Engineering detective-work at its best.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Such a great book! The airplane technology information got to be a little overwhelming in places, but overall it was a great, suspenseful read! I highly recommend it!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of Crichton's best. Follows an investigative team through the aftermath of a plane crash. Phenomenal read.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane...
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster abroad a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Classic Crichton. Super suspense and authentic information about a midair disaster aboard an airliner.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is very fast paced and packed with a lot of suspense. It is hard to put down. Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane.
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This was my first Michael Crichton read and it kept me on the edge of my seat!
Very interesting book. Lots of information about planes. As usual Crichton delivers.
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured.
The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot
manages to land the plane....
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
Peggy L. (Not for those afraid of flying.. A great suspense story aboard a jet airliner.
Pretty good book. Really gets you into the nitty gritty of the airline industry.
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured’ The interion cabin destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane.
A thrilling story by a master author. This book is about the possibility of a deadly agent on an aircraft.
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