Airport (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)
by Arthur Hailey
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The #1 New York Times bestselling thriller about an airport thrust into chaos by a whiteout blizzard. As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant show more pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster. Featuring a diverse cast of vibrant characters, Airport is both a realistic depiction of the airline industry and a novel of nail-biting suspense. show lessTags
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Airport (published in 1968) tells the inside story of one very difficult night in the busy working life of fictional Lincoln International Airport in the USA. There is a bad snowstorm so air traffic is held up and impatient crowds of passengers are waiting for their flights. Adding to the delays, a large plane has become stuck on one of the main runways, which means that space for landing and taking off has become dangerously limited. In the middle of all this, residents of a nearby housing estate have decided to take their protest about noise to the airport terminal itself. And these are not all the headaches facing the General Manager at the airport, Mel Bakersfield. He has a failing marriage and serious doubts about his own show more professional success. But everyone's nerves are stretched to the limit when a suicidal man carries out his plan to blow up Flight 2 to Rome. Will the Boeing 707 return safely to Lincoln International or will it break into pieces killing all the passengers and crew on board? show less
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Television film writer Arthur Hailey was born in England in 1920, where he was a decorated pilot in the RAF from 1939 to 1947. When he was 27, he emigrated to Canada where he served in the RCAF in 1951. Hailey was best known as author of over twenty television plays. His first, Flight into Danger (1956), was conceived on a business trip when he show more imagined what would happen if the pilots became unable to land the plane and he had to step in. Drawing on his professional history but with no experience in the publishing industry, he blind-mailed his script and it was accepted. While the TV-movie genre made his reputation as a writer, Hailey has gone on to write a number of novels, including In High Places (1962), Hotel (1965), Airport (1968),The Moneychangers (1975), Strong Medicine (1984) and Detective (1997). All his novels have been published in foreign-language editions, and many have been adapted for the screen. He died of a suspected stroke in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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