Mass Market Paperback, 431 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 1997 by Arrow.
The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control:
'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency,' The pilot requests priority clearance to land -- then comes the bombshell -- he needs forty ambulances on the runway.
But nothin prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane.
Ninety-four passengers are injured. Three dead. The interioro cabin virtually destroyed.
What happened on board Flight TPA 545? (back cover)
It was a page-turner and had some interesting insights into aviation and some history? about other aviation disasters. Was a fast read and kept me interested.
I have read this book at least two times. Always a good read. Then again, I, like Lorelei Gilmore, am a bit of a Critchton freak. So pretty much everything he wrote I have read and loved. Cept for The Great Train Robbery. Can't get into that to save my life.
