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Crashers
by
Dana Haynes (Goodreads Author)
Whenever a plane goes down in the U.S., a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB to investigate. Those people - each of them a leadingexpert in a specific area - are known as informally as "Crashers."
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven,slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Under the lea...more
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven,slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Under the lea...more
Hardcover, 343 pages
Published
June 22nd 2010
by Minotaur Books
(first published 2010)
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Crashers by Dana Hayes is two stories in one. The first revolves around the NTSB investigation of a plane crash in rural Oregon. The investigation initially points at pilot error as the cause of the crash, but is it really? The second involves an Irish Protestant terrorist group in California, with a female former Mossad agent thrown in. Naturally, both of these stories eventually intersect. [return][return]Written with as much action as an episode of “24” the book was fast-paced and hard to put...more
Important: This is my first review of anykind.
This story is so bad that I felt compelled to write this review. It has been duly placed among the top 3 worst I have ever read. In fact, after 186 pages, I just can't read anymore and plan to throw it in the bin where it belongs. I've done that only one other time. Sincerely. A previous scathing review regarding aviation inaccuracies was dead-on (long-time private pilot here). The attitudes and attire-nuances of most of the female characters approac...more
This story is so bad that I felt compelled to write this review. It has been duly placed among the top 3 worst I have ever read. In fact, after 186 pages, I just can't read anymore and plan to throw it in the bin where it belongs. I've done that only one other time. Sincerely. A previous scathing review regarding aviation inaccuracies was dead-on (long-time private pilot here). The attitudes and attire-nuances of most of the female characters approac...more
This was one of the worst books I have ever read. The author's obvious lack of aviation knowledge immediately turned me off. How the pilots communicate with the tower was wrong, the runway ID was wrong, how they fly the airplane was wrong, how the airplane works is wrong... you'd think he could at least get one thing right. He obviously didn't care about authenticity (I know it's a thriller but at least do some research): piloting & maintenance are different things, aircraft are measured in...more
You have heard of "Party Crashers" and "Wedding Crashers", but how about just plain "Crashers".
Whenever a plane goes down in the United States, a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) to investigate. Those people, each of them a leading expert in a specific field, are known informally as "Crashers".
A passenger plane slams into the ground outside of Portland, Oregon. The Vermeer One Eleven was piloted by an experienced crew that was strugglin...more
Whenever a plane goes down in the United States, a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) to investigate. Those people, each of them a leading expert in a specific field, are known informally as "Crashers".
A passenger plane slams into the ground outside of Portland, Oregon. The Vermeer One Eleven was piloted by an experienced crew that was strugglin...more
The first book in a series by new author Dana Haynes involving the NTSB people who descend on a crash site, to examine the evidence, take the plane apart, piece by piece, and determine what went wrong. This can take more than a year. Back on the team, for his expertise, is Tommy Tomzak, a pathologist who had quit the NTSB when the previous crash investigation where he was IIC, the in-charge investigator, never got answered. He happened to be in the area when the Vermeer One Eleven went down in O...more
Jul 31, 2011
Robert Starner
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A fairly well paced suspense read with several plot twists lurking around the corners. A clever storyline that follows a group of investigators of the National Transportation Safety Board as they search for the cause of crash of commercial airliner. The tension that builds to the first crash and its description is harrowing and very quick at the start of the book. The descriptions of the crash site and the damages and deaths are very graphic so beware ... they are distressing to read at times. S...more
4.0 out of 5 stars The job of a Crasher is not to save lives, but to "find out why an aircraft crashed."
I enjoyed this suspense thriller about a passenger plane crash in Portland, Oregon, and the investigation into the cause of it. When the NTSB's "Go-Team" comprised of a pathologist, voice recorder specialist, bomb and engineering experts assembles at the site of the downed plane and finds only a few survivors, they begin their painstaking and meticulous assessments and are quickly forced by ob...more
I enjoyed this suspense thriller about a passenger plane crash in Portland, Oregon, and the investigation into the cause of it. When the NTSB's "Go-Team" comprised of a pathologist, voice recorder specialist, bomb and engineering experts assembles at the site of the downed plane and finds only a few survivors, they begin their painstaking and meticulous assessments and are quickly forced by ob...more
Flight 818 is dead - but what, or who, killed it? Getting the answer is the job of a quickly-assembled "Go team" - numerous experts from the National Transportation Safety Board who converge on the smoking ruins of the plane to secure the area, and come up with an answer so this can't happen again. But tensions are running high, and high-tech terrorists are circling the investigation....
Reading Crashers, it's hard to believe that it's Dana Hayes' first thriller. He's constructed a swift and rich...more
Reading Crashers, it's hard to believe that it's Dana Hayes' first thriller. He's constructed a swift and rich...more
Totally entertaining in an action movie kind of way, Crashers takes as its storyline the world of the NTSB teams that investigate airplane crashes. I've always been fascinated with this kind of investigation - all the experts gathering together to perform a post-mortem on the event to the most minute of details in hopes of preventing future crashes. The only other book that I've read with this as its subject matter is my favorite of Kathy Reichs' books, Fatal Voyage so I was very excited to read...more
A thriller that will keep you turning the pages, CRASHERS, the new novel by Oregon author Dana Haynes, follows NTSB investigators as they try to solve the cause of an airplane crash just minutes after it leaves the Portland International Airport.
This book is great for the arm-chair detective as the FBI becomes involved in the investigation after it is determined that the plane was sabotaged, because one of them may be a mole. There is plenty of technical jargon for geeks and Haynes does a good j...more
This book is great for the arm-chair detective as the FBI becomes involved in the investigation after it is determined that the plane was sabotaged, because one of them may be a mole. There is plenty of technical jargon for geeks and Haynes does a good j...more
I had seen this novel advertised on Goodreads and thought, why not, get a hold of it. I was not disappointed; this is a very good debut thriller from Dana Haynes. Crashers have to do with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and what they do after a plane crash. The Crashers are those that respond to the accident and reconstruct it so they can figure out what the cause was, and make sure the same thing does not happen in the future.
Dana Haynes puts together a very nice group of charac...more
Dana Haynes puts together a very nice group of charac...more
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"Crashers" is a strong novel with solid characters dealing with the mysterious crash of a jumbo jetliner. The main characters are the "crashers" from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). After the plane plummets into the soil of the Oregon countryside, the reps from the NTSB quickly gather to reconstruct the flight and reasons for the disaster.
As the researchers dig deeper and deeper into the mystery, they soon begin to question whether the crash was due to pilot error or something...more
As the researchers dig deeper and deeper into the mystery, they soon begin to question whether the crash was due to pilot error or something...more
It's been a while since I read a thriller that I couldn't put down. Crashers had me from the beginning. I was fascinated by the process of the investigations conducted by the NTSB into the crash of a jetliner. It was disturbing, fairly graphic -- so if you're squeamish -- the first few chapters are hard to take. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody who is afraid of flying.
My one complaint about the book was the motive behind the plot to crash the plane. Compared to the realism of the crash...more
My one complaint about the book was the motive behind the plot to crash the plane. Compared to the realism of the crash...more
Though mystery genre is the mainstay of my fiction-reading life, I've read only two thrillers. But I knew as I sped through the first 129 pages of Dana Haynes new thriller, Crashers, that I would be the first in line to get his next!
Having read Haynes' three earlier mysteries, (written as Conrad Haynes) I already knew that the man writes well. But his genius is ability to flow from one exciting page to the next so that you are breathless wherever you pause. And Crashers is absolutely unputdownab...more
Having read Haynes' three earlier mysteries, (written as Conrad Haynes) I already knew that the man writes well. But his genius is ability to flow from one exciting page to the next so that you are breathless wherever you pause. And Crashers is absolutely unputdownab...more
Definitely a blueprint for a Grade B thriller. The politically correct cast of characters: the boss is a female Asian, the lead pilot is African American, there's the gorgeous petite female Mossad agent, the tall white gal, the recalcitrant pathologist, an FBI agent, even a Brit and the terrorists are not mid-Eastern, but Irish.
The writing is a step above the usual for this sort of potboiler which is why it gets three stars. The plot, however, progresses from far-fetched to preposterous. Landing...more
The writing is a step above the usual for this sort of potboiler which is why it gets three stars. The plot, however, progresses from far-fetched to preposterous. Landing...more
This was a freebie from St. Martin Press through Goodreads and I'm happy I was selected to receive it. This is a fast-paced thriller about what happens when an airliner crashes. A "Go-Team" (the Crashers) is assembled to investigate the crash and its cause and they are from various disciplines and fields. They don't always work together and they don't always like each other. The relationships among the team members keep things moving along even though the plot moves fast itself. There are villai...more
I liked this plane-crashed-by-terrorists plot less and less as it went on, and gave up finishing the book. Enjoyed learning a little bit more about the National Transportation Safety Board (or at least a fictionalized version of it), but got tired of the plot predictability. And it was gruesome.
And one thing that drove me crazy was any non-white character's introduction as, "X, a tall Black man," or "Y, a petite Asian woman." It felt a little like Haynes had a chart in front of him and was maki...more
And one thing that drove me crazy was any non-white character's introduction as, "X, a tall Black man," or "Y, a petite Asian woman." It felt a little like Haynes had a chart in front of him and was maki...more
This isn't the kind of book I normally gravitate to - at the reccomendation of an avid reader I picked it up. I knew that investigators spend a lot of time after a plane crash but haven't given much thought into all of the perfectly orchestrated procedures that must be followed. I enjoyed that aspect of the book a lot. The story was fine, typically thriller, suspense story much like any other... you, as the reader, know who the bad guy is, but the investigators fall into their trap. They figure...more
Dec 03, 2011
Evan Dickens
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of thrillers, especially Oregonians
Dana Haynes' first thriller novel is a really promising first step that ends in breathtaking fashion and is especially delightful for Oregon residents who will enjoy the real-life nature of most of the referenced locations.
Haynes details the deliberate crash-landing of a passenger aircraft and the subsequent investigation, and ultimately the terrorist plot that is uncovered. None of that is a spoiler; in fact, the art of the slow reveal may be something Haynes will yet master. He introduces the...more
Haynes details the deliberate crash-landing of a passenger aircraft and the subsequent investigation, and ultimately the terrorist plot that is uncovered. None of that is a spoiler; in fact, the art of the slow reveal may be something Haynes will yet master. He introduces the...more
I got this as part of the Early Reviews program. I have to say I don't usually enjoy this type of book but I quite liked this novel. It is a thriller involving someone who is causing plane crashes to strategically kill people. I do not know a lot about aircrafts and I found that the author wrote her technical explanations in such a way that it is easy to understand. Haynes also creates vivid descriptions of a crash scene; I almost felt like I was there smelling, seeing, hearing and tasting every...more
The most laudable thing that can be said about Crashers is that it's fun. And it definitely is that -- lazy brain candy on a Saturday afternoon/Law and Order marathon sort of fun. It's fast-paced romp, with lots of action, a plot-twist or two and lots of beautiful, charismatic characters.
And that's where the praise ends. This reads like a script for a summer movie or a CSI "Special Episode." It is filled with an appropriately diverse cast (for some, unknown, reason the ethnic background of even...more
And that's where the praise ends. This reads like a script for a summer movie or a CSI "Special Episode." It is filled with an appropriately diverse cast (for some, unknown, reason the ethnic background of even...more
It appeared that this was going to be an interesting procedural about NTSB investigators working a plane crash in Oregon. Then Haynes veered off into over-the-top adventure, trying to take a page from the works of people like Matthew Reilly or James Rollins. I love that kind of man smut when it's well done, but this author didn't quite have the chops for it. However, this was a first novel, and I was interested in the science of the investigation. I would try another by this author, hoping he ma...more
Dana Haynes has blended the intriguing intricacies of the investigation in the wake of a plane crash with a diabolical terrorist plot to create a rollicking story that is fast-paced, fascinating, and very hard to put down. The characters are thoroughly enjoyable. There are excellent plot twists. And so much excitement. Also - for those of us living in the Salem/Portland area - there are a gratifyingly vast number of local references that add to the fun. The book is set for release on June 22. I...more
As one of my co-worker said when I was describing this book to him: "You don't fly much, do you?" After this book, I'm even less inclined to fly if I don't have to. The plot device, which I won't go into due to spoiler alert, is both realistic and possible. Add in the money-hungry geek and the fanatic terrorists and the failed law enforcer, you have a stew of motives and twists that spin you around after every new chapter. This is a very good read, exciting and thought provoking at the same time...more
I picked up an advance copy of this at last year's PLA Conference in Portland. It's been sitting on my bookshelf ever since and I finally picked it up and gave it a shot. It reads like an action movie (but much better than Snakes on a Plane). The story is about a group of experts ("crashers") who are investigating a plane crash and uncover a rather unusual conspiracy. My only complaint would be that there are soooo many characters that it was sometimes a chore to keep them all straight. It's a q...more
I know this sounds contradictory, but:
I liked that this book was about a subject I knew very little about. But, because it was about a subject new to most readers ("Crashers", or, the folks who come in to investigate after a plane crashes in the U.S.) I felt that the first half was laden with information the author needed to feed us so that we could understand the intricacies of such a situation, and in doing so it slowed down the plot. But, the last 100 flew by (ha ha) and came to a well-writt...more
I liked that this book was about a subject I knew very little about. But, because it was about a subject new to most readers ("Crashers", or, the folks who come in to investigate after a plane crashes in the U.S.) I felt that the first half was laden with information the author needed to feed us so that we could understand the intricacies of such a situation, and in doing so it slowed down the plot. But, the last 100 flew by (ha ha) and came to a well-writt...more
If Crashers tried a little less earnestly to be serious fiction, and let itself slide a bit more into escapist action-adventure, I think that I (and other readers) would have had an easier time swallowing it. The premise is interesting: follow a team of investigators as they analyze a horrific airplane crash. It's like C.S.I. for aircraft, and there are (unfortunately--and graphically) more bodies involved. I actually liked that Haynes didn't sugarcoat the horror of what happens when something t...more
I am sure that a person with a professional understand of aeronautical investigations will see this book differently than I did, but what I can tell you is that Dana Haynes has written a book that has kept me engaged from beginning to end.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is called out to investigate the crash of a Vermeer passenger jet that had gone down minutes after leaving the Portland International Airport.
Each member of the Go-Team “Crashers” has their own individual special...more
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is called out to investigate the crash of a Vermeer passenger jet that had gone down minutes after leaving the Portland International Airport.
Each member of the Go-Team “Crashers” has their own individual special...more
A good thriller is one that keeps you anticipating the outcome up until the very last page; it’s one where you don’t know who will live or die, and who the bad guy is until the author tells you. Dana Haynes’ first thriller is one of the good ones. The only problem I have with it is that I’m done reading.
Crashers is about a group of investigators with the NTSB who are in charge of discovering why a plane has crashed every time one goes down. Fresh from quitting the group after an eighteen month i...more
Crashers is about a group of investigators with the NTSB who are in charge of discovering why a plane has crashed every time one goes down. Fresh from quitting the group after an eighteen month i...more
SETTING: Portland, Oregon
SERIES: Debut
RATING: 4.5
Whenever there is an airline crash, there is a huge team of investigators that jump into action to determine what happened. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the group that is responsible for running the investigation unless the crash is found to be a terrorist act, in which case, the FBI takes over. Their job is to find out why an aircraft crashed and to make recommendations to keep other aircraft from suffering the same fate....more
SERIES: Debut
RATING: 4.5
Whenever there is an airline crash, there is a huge team of investigators that jump into action to determine what happened. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the group that is responsible for running the investigation unless the crash is found to be a terrorist act, in which case, the FBI takes over. Their job is to find out why an aircraft crashed and to make recommendations to keep other aircraft from suffering the same fate....more
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