Airframe by Michael Crichton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Airframe
Book Review: Aircraft construction and journalists with their own agenda.
Summary: 5 Stars
A Chinese-flown jumbo jet apparently encounters severe turbulence and lands at Los Angeles International Airport with deaths and injuries. The aircraft firm that built the airplane organizes an investigation team to figure out why the incident happened and why the backups didn't work. However, there appear to be people who do not want answers found. The novel contains many details concerning aircraft construction and aerodynamics as well as issues concerned with government regulation and corporate politics that I found fascinating. And this includes the discussion on safety. But, most of the most biting observations were made about television journalists. I particularly enjoyed the not-so-subtle comment about the Internet: "The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion."Book Review: Airframe
Summary: 5 Stars
An airplane crashes, Casey Singleton has to find out why. Casey is on the IRT (Incident review team) She finds disturbing clues as to why the plane crashes,But they all point to slats extention, but thats impossible, they fixed it years ago. She finds that the pilot wasn't flying the plane, his son was. He let his son kill 4 people including himself. I completely agree on how Mr.Chrichton handles and described all the charecters. Casey, Richman, Marder, all wonderfuly described. The underlying details, Her daughter, Her Ex-Husband, and a manner of all the other little details blend to create a breath-taking adventure. I would reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in adventure and mystery , but is willing to handle some foul language.Book Review: Airframe
Summary: 3 Stars
Airframe
Airframe, by Michael Crichton would make someone who is interested in aviation even more interested. In the beginning, a plane has a mid-air accident that kills three people. The rest of the book is primarily concerned with describing the investigation that the company launches trying to find out why. In my opinion, since part of the conflict is that the media is producing a story with incomplete information that could ruin the company, one might believe that the author is trying to show how one bad media report could cause good companies to go bankrupt and leave many people unemployed. One good thing about the novel is that it is very factual with its description of how airplanes work. It is also a book that would make any person who is interested in aircraft to become more enthusiastic about them. One bad thing about the story is that it would be thought of as very boring to someone who is not interested in aviation.
The author of the book was Michael Crichton. Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942, and has written many fiction and non fiction works. Most of his novels, such as Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Congo are science fiction based books and many of them are bestsellers. If the reader liked Airframe, they would probably enjoy The Great Train Robbery, or any of the above mentioned books.
Centennial Critic # 17
Book Review: Airframe
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the best Criton book I have read so far. The characters were well defined. I have read other Criton books, and this was by far the best. The suspense was unmatched in this one. I liked this suspense one because oyu don't know what they will find next, or what they are going to what is wrong with the plane, next.Book Review: Airframe
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Chrichtons "Airframe" is an exciting and mysterious book. The book is about a wide body aircraft that has a slats failure while flying, and goes out of control in mid-air, but manages to land with many injuries and three dead. Casey Singleton, who works at Norton Aircraft Company, is assigned to investigate the plane crash. During her investigation she finds out that the pilot, who is highly respected, let his son fly, and his son did not have a license to do so. It is non-stop action as Singleton discovers new clues and un-raps the answers to the reason's of the crash.