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Airframe

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Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone...more

Mass Market Paperback, 431 pages

Published December 27th 1997 by Ballantine Books (first published December 12th 1991)

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Aug 20, 2007 Jay rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Mike gave me this book when we visited him, Anna, and Kaley at their Woodbridge apt--jesus it must be 3 or 4 (or 5?) years ago. I remember how funny he was about it. Convo went something like this:

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MS: Hey Jay - I got this book for you to have

me: Oh really? Well, what's it about?

MS: Pfft... fuck if I know. Anna tried it. I tried it. Too many goddamn acronyms in it.

me: (laughs)

MS: I'm serious, dude. It's all about an airliner crash. But the fuckin author uses every acronym under the s...more

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Jan 31, 2009 Eric_W rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-and-thrillers

This is my first Crichton since the Andromeda Strain written so many years ago. Another reason to ignore the professional critics who have not been terribly kind to Crichton in the past few years. I really liked this book. It has a marvelous blend of science, information and a good plot that keeps the pages turning.

It’s interesting that many of the reviews I read focused on the aircraft industry. I think the book is more about the media and it’s relentless pursuit of the visual and the sound bit...more This is my first Crichton since the Andromeda Strain written so many years ago. Another reason to ignore the professional critics who have not been terribly kind to Crichton in the past few years. I really liked this book. It has a marvelous blend of science, information and a good plot that keeps the pages turning.

It’s interesting that many of the reviews I read focused on the aircraft industry. I think the book is more about the media and it’s relentless pursuit of the visual and the sound bite at the expense of truth and the whole picture more than about airplanes.

Enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, a brand new Norton-22, a plane clearly modeled on the Boeing 747, pitches and dives like a porpoise before being brought under control. The violent maneuvers kill three passengers and injures 56 others. . The airline's VP in charge of quality assurance — Casey Singleton — has to find out why, before more passengers and the airline's future go into a tailspin. As always in Crichton's expert hands, readers learn a lot about science while becoming enmeshed in the power-plays, office politics, and pressures of the global market and American jobs. Her job is complicated, because, as we gradually learn, powers within the company are trying to manipulate her and to embarrass the company so that the president of the company can be forced out in favor of another. Casey is saddled with a Norton family nephew who turns out to be a spy for one of the other company officers. We learn a great deal about aircraft manufacture and design — I must admit to really loving the technical detail — as Casey tries to figure out why the cockpit reports of turbulence differ from physical evidence of a “commanded slat deployment,” something, that even had it occurred at altitude and high speed should not have caused the plane to go out-of-control the way it appears to have done.

Crichton obviously doesn’t like lawyers, their stoolies (an ex-FAA employee who testifies for the plaintiffs in injury suits figures prominently in the media’s desire to create a nasty story) nor the media, and a character clearly modeled after Mike Wallace has few redeeming qualities. At one point Casey is to be interviewed by the Wallace character, Marty Reardon, and a company PR person comes by to help her prepare a little. “There’s only one more thing I can tell you, Katherine. You work in a complex business. If you try to explain that complexity to Marty, you’ll be frustrated. You’ll feel he isn’t interested. He’ll probably cut you off. Because he isn’t interested. A lot of people complain television lacks focus. But that’s the nature of the medium. Television’s not about information at all. Information is active, engaging. Television is passive. Information is disinterested, objective. Television is emotional. It’s entertainment. . . . [Marty’s:] paid to exercise his one reliable talent: provoking people, getting them to make an emotional outburst, to lose their temper, to say something outrageous. He doesn’t really want to know about airplanes. He wants a media moment.”

Casey’s father was a journalist and an old friend of his remarks at the end of the book, “Used to be — in the old days-- the media image roughly corresponded to reality. But now it’s all reversed. The media image is the reality, and by comparison day-to-day life seems to lack excitement. So now day-to-day life is false, and the media image is true. Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.”

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Nov 27, 2009 Ed rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Chrichton fans and people with no other choice.

Shelves: legal-fiction-thriller, reviewed

When Michael Crichton is good he is very, very good but this effort is just plain horrible. The only reason I finished it is due to my obsession about not wanting to miss anything. I found myself reading the first sentence of paragraphs and skipping the rest to move more quickly to the end. I don't think I missed anything doing it that way.

The characters are stereotyped beyond belief: the hard working but put upon single mother, the brusque and impatient boss, the techy nerds, the debonair test...more

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Apr 23, 2008 Nita Elder added it · review of another edition

Crichton takes the reader into the manufactory of airlines. The story begins with an "incident" over the Pacific, which injures many passengers and kills a few. The story has some loose ends, but Crichton manages to get across his fear that the US is not protecting its international technological position. There are several stories taking place simultaneously. Our protagonist - a divorcee, finally uncovers some pretty disturbing facts which jeapordize the welfare of her company, while she helps...more

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Jan 06, 2009 Kenny rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Michael Crichton, literary uber-mensch, sets himself pretty high standards, so one cannot be too disappointed when he fails to outscore JURASSIC PARK every time. But what makes Crichton's books interesting (to me) is not so much the story, but the theme, which is almost always a cautionary tale (JURASSIC PARK: don't mess with mother nature; STATE OF FEAR: you can't mess with mother nature, etc.) AIRFRAME is not about the dangers of air travel, however, as one might suspect from the set-up. Rathe...more

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Jun 15, 2013 Calum rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, fiction

There are a lot of naysayers here, but I really liked this book. It's a thriller novel with suitably short chapters about the problems of an aircraft company, Norton, as it tries to deal with the media, business partners, engineering problems, the mysterious provenance of an accident, and many others. It doesn't sound immediately enticing, but I enjoyed this book more than Sphere - it felt somehow more tangible and the characters more convincing.

This was not actually my first read, but the last...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Susan Devy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: highly-recomended-must-read-books

If you think you will find "Airframe" like any other novels or movies about airplane crash, then you wrong, the drama and main-plot about Airframe were during AFTER the airplane incident, not during or before it.

so basically it was more like "Air plane Crash investigation" conducted by several people who worked at the Norton Aircraft who built that airplane. the main protagonist was Casey Singelton, mid-thirties, single-mom, control-freak, unfashionable and always follow by the rules.

Casey who...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Lee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller

As the novel opens we see a young family nearing the end of a very long flight across the Pacific. The sun has come up, the passengers are waking to the sounds of the crew getting the breakfast service ready when suddenly, and without warning, the plane hits very rough turbulence. By the time the makes an emergency landing there are deaths and over 50 injuries.

The manufacturer of the plane, Norton, finds itself blamed for the event by the FAA, the carrier and the media. Casey, the vice-president...more

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Mar 23, 2012 Greg Brown rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I remembered this book as being the best thing ever back in 6th grade, when I graduated to "adult novels" and tore through a bunch of airport fiction—Crichton, King, etc. It had mystery, science, societal commentary, and even a few (obviously obligatory) action sequences!

In retrospect, though, the actual plane/engineering stuff is the only parts that hold up. If you're ever bored sometime, look up how planes have crashed on Wikipedia. Some of the stories are absolutely fascinating, and Crichton...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Sougata Khan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

I have always been fascinated by Airplanes and especiallyAir Crash Investigations. Airplanes are extremely complex and yet the incidents that happen never involve just a single reason. They are an example of perfect machinery. And yet its humbling how a series of mistakes can bring down a plane in seconds. This makes investigating Air Crashes very difficult and also interesting as its one thing to find a fault and a totally different ball game to find a series of errors , that caused something s...more

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Jan 16, 2012 Richard rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rating: 3.5 breathless stars of five

I really hate flying. I'm not scared of it, I just dislike being herded into inky-dinky seats meant for short people by ill-tempered sky-waiters who charge for pillows and booze, and then I have to pay more than I used to make a week for the privilege of being searched, patted by men I'm not attracted to in places I don't want to be patted unless I am, etc etc etc.

Fifteen years ago, all that was more or less to come, and storymonger Crichton used planes for a...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Will V. rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It is a silly book, honestly. But it's eminently readable (I don't quite get the complaints about acronyms). The characters are stereotypes, you don't really care about anyone -- not even the protagonist, really. I knocked it out in two evenings recently, and this might have been the third time I've read it -- I have no idea why.

I guess I could call it a guilty pleasure but I don't feel that guilty about it, nor was it that pleasurable. I read it again this time because the e-book I was trying...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Brian rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've never read Michael Crichton before and after Airframe I'm pretty sure I never will read Crighton again. The plot itself which concerns an inflight accident on an airliner isn't bad. It's the multitude of acronyms (With no glossary for them) and the characters who are essentially caricatures.

The story is told mainly through the eyes of Casey Singleton who along with a secretary and a media coach, who is in the book for about four pages, are the only "normal" people in the book. Casey is a VP...more

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Apr 23, 2011 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As someone who worked most of my in Aerospace, on the supersonic B-1 bomber, and then on several Titan missile and launch vehicle programs, I found the book well researched. There were a few times when I said to myself, "In what manufacturing area would THAT occur?" But he's right on with the incessant use of acronyms, and the increasing prevalence of cost-cutting maneuvers that end up compromising flight safety.

And I believe he's right on about the maneuvers of the airline companies that buy t...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Bob Milne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Airframe is - for better or for worse, depending on your point of view - exactly what we've come to expect from a Michael Crichton novel. There's a big-budget action sequence to get us going, a myriad of technological details, a mystery to be solved, a conspiracy driving things in the background, one well-developed protagonist, and a cast of supporting players that really don't exist beyond their role in the plot.

Having said all that, it's also a novel I finished over the course of a weekend.

The...more

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Sep 12, 2009 Thomasscholtes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO TAKE A FLIGHT ANYTIME SOON!

I bought this book without even thinking as I waited for my plane from L.A. to Baltimore, Maryland to come in. Two chapters in and I had to put it down because what it talks about is so real you just have to ignore it for the time being. Crichton always does a ton of research for his books, making them feel and appear as if they already happened and you just happen to be getting a behind-the-scenes look into the event and lives of the pe...more

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Jul 09, 2009 Sarai rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: general-fiction

From Publishers Weekly
...The event that launches the story, conceived long before TWA Flight 800's last takeoff, is an airline disaster. Why did a passenger plane "porpoise"-pitch and dive repeatedly-enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, killing four and injuring 56? That's what Casey Singleton, v-p for quality assurance for Norton Aircraft, has to find out fast. If Norton's design is to blame, its imminent deal with China may collapse, and the huge company along with it. With Casey as his unsubtle...more

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Jun 14, 2009 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Critics spin Michael Crichton as a writer whose work lacks any real substance. He is seen as a pulp fiction writer whose works won't have any longevity. In my opinion, Crichton's works probably shouldn't be included in school curricula, but are more than just pure entertainment. Airframe contains some criticism and analysis of the U.S. legal system, free speech, and particularly, television media and television journalism. Perhaps Crichton only takes a skin-deep look into television journalism,...more Critics spin Michael Crichton as a writer whose work lacks any real substance. He is seen as a pulp fiction writer whose works won't have any longevity. In my opinion, Crichton's works probably shouldn't be included in school curricula, but are more than just pure entertainment. Airframe contains some criticism and analysis of the U.S. legal system, free speech, and particularly, television media and television journalism. Perhaps Crichton only takes a skin-deep look into television journalism, but he does it in such a compelling, edge-of-your seat story that he will reach many more people than a non-fiction author analyzing how much U.S. households watch television (at the expense of listening to the radio, reading newspapers, and reading books) and get their "news" from sensationalist shows like the fictional "Newsline" show in Airframe.
Although I do not know anything about planes, it seems that Crichton did his research in learning about planes and airplane manufacturers. At the very least, he makes the story very believable.
The "twist" at the end of the book is quite unexpected. At least I did not see it coming. I'm not sure Crichton gives you enough information to predict the true cause of the incident on the Norton plane, but it's a very plausible cause. The book tells a compelling story and reads very quickly. I finished Airframe in two days. It's also a believable story that does provide some insight into modern culture, the U.S. legal system (particularly tort claims against manufacturers and the pressure on companies to consider (i) media coverage, (ii) public perception (which is greatly affected by media coverage), (iii) claims by mass-tort litigators, (iv) governmant agencies such as the FAA, and (v) the politics of globalization and new sources of power such as the European Union and the rise of the power of Asian countries such as Korea and China. Even though the copyright is from 1996, Crichton's story still holds some modern relevance and seems to be right-on in light of what is happening in 2009. When you read it, you'll realize Crichton had some insight into things to come.(less)

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Jun 21, 2012 Todd Russell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: technology, thriller

A fun, engrossing techno thriller that probably shouldn't be read aboard an airplane. Follow along with the VP of Quality Assurance Casey Singleton of a fictional (but seemingly all too real) airframe manufacturer. Casey is assigned to investigate an incident with Flight 545 from Hong Kong that left over fifty people injured and three dead, including a crew member. Casey is one of Crichton's more rounded female characters and considering he isn't known for strong characterization, she is an exce...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Rathyon rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There are really those books which are so hard to keep down from Michael Crichton, but then this one... It starts maturely than the way it ends. I found in myself, a sense of rare disappointment, rather dis-satisfied by the inability to appreciate the plot when it comes to the very end.

I felt that a number of pages were filled by acronyms and the organizations holding those acronyms doing their duties, some responding and most reacting, to a plane crash. There is a lack of story telling through...more There are really those books which are so hard to keep down from Michael Crichton, but then this one... It starts maturely than the way it ends. I found in myself, a sense of rare disappointment, rather dis-satisfied by the inability to appreciate the plot when it comes to the very end.

I felt that a number of pages were filled by acronyms and the organizations holding those acronyms doing their duties, some responding and most reacting, to a plane crash. There is a lack of story telling through out the entire scene, but rather this would serve as a fictional reference book for folks who would like to know "which and what various organizations get involved to duly perform their duties and how nosy they can get?", should a plane crash occur.

It is very trivial that the great suspense, that this novel claims, could be solved in less than a week from what I learnt when consulting certain friends of mine who are commercial pilots(yes more than one of my friends), which naturally made me feel that Crichton tried to fill in the plot with something unnecessary to create the fascinating trip that readers like me expect from him. It's like when the author tries to "create the impossibility" of solving a trivial situation where both density and volume is deficient in real life. In real life its a point A to Point B with guidelines and proper execution would lead to inevitable solution and this is what the author borrows and puts circumstances that evade that trivial climax caused due to unprofessional human error of the pilot.

Although if there is something that goes for this novel is that the main character sketches are amply done.

In the end

This is not a book for the usual Crichton fan, definitely should not be one's first novel and either the last, would consider it a good investment of time only when we face a dearth of real suspense novels out there.

Rachel-ling Moment

Rachel: Hey, hows this one (holding Airframe in her hand), is it a good read?

Me: Oh hell yeah!!!!

Rachel: (Skeptically looking at me) I hate it when you say things like that, its difficult for me to find out whether its interesting or fuses out. Frankly you better tell me!!!

Me: Well, a plane crashes and the plot is about finding how the plane went down, meanwhile respective organizations and stakeholders get involved to find out what happened.

Rachel: Ahan, sounds OK to me??? (That was actually a question)

Me: Only if you like a guideline knowledge book with what happens when a plane crashes.
(She still gazes at me wide eyed for a better convincing statement that would not reveal the plot)

Me: and if you like vomit in the aircraft.

The Next Day at the very moment when i woke up and found my need for cuddling her.
Rachel: Darling, I threw the Vomit out!!!

That was enough to kill me for the day

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Jul 10, 2011 Punk rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller

Airplane Mystery. A commercial airplane experiences alarming turbulence; several people die but the plane lands safely. The only way for the manufacturers to discover the cause of the problem is to pore over pages and pages of flight data!

This is a technical mystery crossed with a trashy thriller. Which means there's lots of reasoned thinking interspersed with stupid decisions made by the female main character. Everyone WARNED her not to go into the building alone, and yet she KEEPS DOING IT. An...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Zach G rated it 5 of 5 stars

What an exciting book! “Airframe” was a fantastic fictional piece by Michael Crichton. This story takes you on a journey through the investigation of a commercial airplane crash. An aircraft company that rarely has problems faces a huge crisis of a mysterious crash. If they don’t figure out what happened to the plane the company will go out of business. The writing was filled with details and elaboration. Crichton makes you feel as if you were on the plane while it was destroyed. Usually fictio...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Jacob Struve rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book seemed to start out really well with intense action in the airplane. The plane actually goes through this rough event in the first 20 pages and the pilot is acting really weird. The pilot starts telling the tower what is happening but doesn't really even say anything about casualties until the end of the conversation where he says, "No, I don't think so," the pilot answered. "But two are dead."The rest of the book is about finding the cause of the accident. The book is set through Case...more

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May 15, 2012 01RyanH Hatch rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Air frame by Micheal Crichton, was a fast paced "mystery" about why a certain plane model has had recent crashes that have had nothing to do with the airframe itself. The plane model is going to be sold in a large quantity to China. Casey Singleton is in charge of leading a team of engineers to find the malfunction before the Chinese change their mind. Casey is divorced and has one daughter. She lives in Glendale, California.

The airframe known as the N-22 has had problems with accidental command...more Air frame by Micheal Crichton, was a fast paced "mystery" about why a certain plane model has had recent crashes that have had nothing to do with the airframe itself. The plane model is going to be sold in a large quantity to China. Casey Singleton is in charge of leading a team of engineers to find the malfunction before the Chinese change their mind. Casey is divorced and has one daughter. She lives in Glendale, California.

The airframe known as the N-22 has had problems with accidental commanded slat deployment in the past, but the engineers have taken precautions to stop the problem after a curious new crash that involves a reported non-commanded slat deployment, something that is deemed impossible. If not for an experienced pilot, it would have killed the passengers and destroyed the plane itself. Casey Singleton is trying to find out why it crashed before the media can shoot it down.

Casey is under a lot of stress from Marder(her boss that is a V.P. that was nominated for president of the company but was not elected). Marder's relationship with Edgarton(the president) is poor to say the least considering Marder owns 17% of the company. Casey also is being pressured by Edgarton who is might be fired if the deal does not go through. Marder is Edgarton's replacement which sets the story up for some serious "drama". Casey however comes through in the clutch and and discovers the mutinious plot.

I thought the book was pretty good but you always knew that Marter was the bad guy and was power hungry. For some reason, unknown to me, he just always seemed bad and was going to try and sabotage the sale. You also got the sense that Casey was going to solve it and make it all better in the end. Besides those two key reasons, the book was really good and deserved three stars which isn't half bad.

This book was time consuming and a little entertaining, but its achilles heal is that it was so easily predictable. I like to read books that are suspenseful, have a lot of action and make me at least think about what's going to happen to the main characters. Sure, some of them will die and I will be sad but at least its entertaining. I have read Airframe and Jurrasic Park by Micheal Crichton and I would have to say that Jurrasic Park was better. I would reccomend this book to people who are big plane enthusiests who like to read about airplane saftey regulations and so on. (less)

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May 09, 2013 Simon rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ok, Airframe by Michael Crichton. If you know other books by the late author, you probably know what you’re in for with this novel. It’s a seemingly fast paced, techno-thriller that actually pretends to be a realistic eventful novel, yet is just an average pseudo-scientific thriller . The plot revolves around a horrible incident on a flight from China to somewhere in the US and the ensuing investigation of the plane manufacturer. Subplots deal with Union problems and the power of modern media. Y...more

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Aug 11, 2011 Mark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: michael-crichton, 2010, books-i-own, 2nd-hand-books

As with a lot of Crichton's books it takes a while to get going. And this one probably takes a little longer than most of his books. Still a really good read though, especially the last 100 pages or so when the plot finally starts to come together. This book is told from the view point of a safety director at the plane manufacturer in question and a research journalist trying to dis-repute the company and I found that until the final stand off between the two characters that I was rooting for bo...more

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Jun 06, 2013 Diana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Yes--there are a lot of abbreviations in this book but they are all explained by Crichton in the beginning of the book. Sure the book sounds techinical but once again Crichton can take a complicated idea and make it sound simple by explaining it in laymen's terms. When I was done with Airframe, I felt like I could build an airplane. But don't think that the entire book is about engineering--the technical stuff only occasionally sneaks into the story.

Casey is the protagonist of this story and sh...more

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Apr 09, 2013 Patrick Brungardt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Definitely one of Crichton's better books. Though it takes place over only a few days, it gives an interesting "inside look" at the aircraft manufacturing industry and the forces that could be at play at various times. One of the things that brought it home and made it more authentic was Crichton's allusions to actual aircraft manufacturers -- his comment by a main character looking at a picture of company founder Charlie Norton next to an N-5 was a near-direct comparison to Donald Douglas and t...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novels-fiction

Airframe, by Michael Crichton, is yet another exciting adventure; this time, Crichton takes us to the land of an aerospace company in trouble after two back-to-back accidents with one of its mainstay aircraft. The main character, Casey Singleton, is a single mom, with a passion for her company, Norton Aircraft, and a down-to-earth, relatable personality. Early in the novel, Crichton introduces the catalyst for the novel: a flight from Hong Kong to LAX goes horribly wrong, with four dead and 56 i...more

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Nov 07, 2012 cover72 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is not about aviation industry: that is just a background. It is about investigating accident despite various corporate pressures -- and about fighting ignorant, arrogant media, who won't stop over anything in their prejudice, fear-mongering and quest for "hot stories", no matter where the truth is.

And because I have few clashes with media in my personal history - friend of mine is regularly re-cut when doing TV interviews in order to "say" opposite of what he meant; and I often oppose...more

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