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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a suspenseful, fast-paced page-turner. I haven't read anything by Michael Crichton for many years, but I really enjoyed this. There is lots of information and technical details about airplanes--how they're built, tested and maintained--and although this is about the investigation of a mid-air "incident" it made me a little less fearful of flying. In the book, there is an incident of midair "turbulence" which results in several deaths and many injuries, as well as extensive damage to the plane. The plane's manufacturer must quickly investigate if it wants to save a large potential sale of its planes to China. There is also a subplot involving corporate intrigue and back-stabbing (not as interesting as main plot). And our main protagonist (who solves the whole thing and saves the company) is a female Quality Assurance executive. The one jarring part for me was the subplot involving union unrest. The union is fearful that some of the manufacturing for the potential large sale would be sent overseas. This may be a reasonable fear, but would that lead the union to seen goons to brutally attack (in a way that could be charged as attempted murder) company management personnel, including our protagonist, and on top of that face little to no consequences for these actions? I don't think so, but maybe I'm naive. With that caveat, this is a good read. First line: "Emily Janson sighed in relief." 3 stars no reviews | add a review
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HTML: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. No library descriptions found.
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This was not actually my first read, but the last time was sufficiently long ago that I couldn't remember any plot details. The story is largely presented from the viewpoints of two characters - Casey Singleton, a press officer for Norton tasked along with others with finding out what happened on a flight incident which left many passengers injured and a few killed, and Jennifer Malone, reporter for Newsline, looking to tear apart Norton for a 15 minute story. Events unfold and Crichton is able to push his message that the media is getting too powerful, while maintaining tension and keeping me awake (I read this in one sitting!) ( )