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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.
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air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction, Pilot-induced oscillation, type rating, first officers, flight engineers, aircraft systems, CEOs, trade unions, Federal Aviation Administration, Airworthiness directives, unapproved aircraft parts, cascading failure, aircraft maintenance, pilot error, turbulence, air traffic control, action and adventure fiction, adventure fiction, Skønlitteratur-USA, Readers, Open Library Staff Picks, English language, Fiction, Investigation, Aircraft accidents, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, science fiction, general, Large type books, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Flugzeugunfall, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Fiction, action & adventurePeople
Casey Singleton, Emily Jansen, John Marder, Jennifer Malone, Doug Doherty, Nguyen Van Trung, Ken Burne, Ron Smith, Mike Lee, Barbara Ross, Norma, Bob Richman, Harold Edgarton, Ted Rawley, Dick Shenk, Marty Reardon, Frederick BarkerPlaces
Hong Kong, Denver, California, Los Angeles International Airport, China, South Korea, Burbank, USAShowing 10 featured editions. View all 73 editions?
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Airframe: A Novel
2006?, Ballantine Books
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Airframe
1997, Ballantine Books
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Airframe
1996, Random House Large Print
Paperback
in English
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First Sentence
""Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545."
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Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.
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Airframe. 1/2
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