Airframe

About this book

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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Subjects

action and adventure fiction
adventure fiction
aircraft accidents
aircraft maintenance
aircraft systems
air safety
air traffic control
airworthiness directives
cascading failure
ceos
english language
federal aviation administration
fiction
fiction, action & adventure
fiction, espionage
fiction, science fiction, general
fiction, suspense
fiction, thrillers
fiction, thrillers, espionage
fiction, thrillers, general
fiction, thrillers, suspense
first officers
flight engineers
flugzeugunfall
human-machine interaction
investigation
investigative journalism
media relations
open library staff picks
pilot error
pilot-induced oscillation
readers
skønlitteratur-usa
trade unions
turbulence
type rating
unapproved aircraft parts