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An edition of Airframe (1996)

Airframe

First Ballantine Books Domestic Edition

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (81 ratings) ·
  • 343 Want to read
  • 24 Currently reading
  • 124 Have read

Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
431

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Subjects

air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction, Pilot-induced oscillation, type rating, first officers, flight engineers, aircraft systems, CEOs, trade unions, Federal Aviation Administration, Airworthiness directives, unapproved aircraft parts, cascading failure, aircraft maintenance, pilot error, turbulence, air traffic control, action and adventure fiction, adventure fiction, Skønlitteratur-USA, Readers, Open Library Staff Picks, English language, Fiction, Investigation, Aircraft accidents, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Flugzeugunfall, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, action & adventure

People

Casey Singleton, Emily Jansen, John Marder, Jennifer Malone, Doug Doherty, Nguyen Van Trung, Ken Burne, Ron Smith, Mike Lee, Barbara Ross, Norma, Bob Richman, Harold Edgarton, Ted Rawley, Dick Shenk, Marty Reardon, Frederick Barker

Places

Hong Kong, Denver, California, Los Angeles International Airport, China, South Korea, Burbank, USA

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Airframe: A Novel
2006?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - first Ballantine Books Domestic Edition
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Turbulences
1999-01, Robert Laffont
Mass Market Paperback in French
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エアフレーム: 上
1997, Hayakawa Shobo
Paperback in Japanese
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Airframe
1997, BCA
Hardcover in English
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Turbulences
1997, Robert Laffont, ROBERT LAFFONT
Paperback in French
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Airframe
1997-11, Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - First Ballantine Books Domestic Edition
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Airframe
1997, Arrow
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Airframe
1997, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books domestic edition (2)
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Airframe
1996, Alfred A Knopf
Hardcover in English
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Airframe
1996, Alfred A Knopf, Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st trade ed.
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Airframe
1996, Random House Large Print
Paperback in English - 1st Large print ed.

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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1996

The Physical Object

Format
mass market paperback
Pagination
431p.
Number of pages
431

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24199644M
ISBN 10
0345402871
ISBN 13
9780345402875
OCLC/WorldCat
464649465, 1140485010
Goodreads
760469

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL46900W

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