Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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. (front flap)
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.
