jackball74
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I recently spent a few hours in my local used bookshop looking for commercial aviation novels that have (pun intended) slipped under the radar - stuff other than that written by Block or Nance. I was pleased to unearth a number of interesting books. I'm currently reading "Between the Thunder and the Sun" by Alfred Coppel, which deals with a SFO to MIA flight that is hijacked during a hurricane. Here are some others:
Flight 311 (Robert Neff) - A rough landing at Kai Tak and the aftermath
Mayday 747 (Reynolds Locke) - The "first novel of the jumbo jet age" centers around a flight to London plagued with mechanical problems
Hawks (Joseph Amiel) An airline up for purchase experiences a number of mysterious crashes
Passengers (Michael Thomas and Laurence Foxworth) - New airliner has problems but is OKd for use
The Higher They Fly (Christopher Hodder-Williams) - A transatlantic flight faces mechanical problems
Airscream (John Bruce) - A crash and the legal outcome
Flameout (Basil Jackson) - Investigation of a mysterious crash
One that falls more into the crime fiction category is Operation Nightfall (John Miles and Tom Morris), which concerns a group of guys that hijack Atlanta International (yes, the entire airport).
Does anyone have any other little-known titles to add to the list?
Flight 311 (Robert Neff) - A rough landing at Kai Tak and the aftermath
Mayday 747 (Reynolds Locke) - The "first novel of the jumbo jet age" centers around a flight to London plagued with mechanical problems
Hawks (Joseph Amiel) An airline up for purchase experiences a number of mysterious crashes
Passengers (Michael Thomas and Laurence Foxworth) - New airliner has problems but is OKd for use
The Higher They Fly (Christopher Hodder-Williams) - A transatlantic flight faces mechanical problems
Airscream (John Bruce) - A crash and the legal outcome
Flameout (Basil Jackson) - Investigation of a mysterious crash
One that falls more into the crime fiction category is Operation Nightfall (John Miles and Tom Morris), which concerns a group of guys that hijack Atlanta International (yes, the entire airport).
Does anyone have any other little-known titles to add to the list?