Airframe
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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There is nothing plane about the book Airframe by Michael Crichton. His nonfictional book uses technical information to explain a mid-flight problem that killed 3 people and injured 57. Casey Singleton is a woman that works for a company that tries to find out problems with their TransPacific airplanes. She is investigating the TransPacific flight 545 that killed 3 people and injured 57 people.
This book is a well-written book. The author does a good job explaining and describing events, such as, "That airplane exceeded its design G-loads by a hundred and sixty percent. That guy subjected the airframe to forces it was never built to withstand." Some of the words he uses are big and technical, and I think the author should use smaller words, and/or simpler words.
My favorite part of the book is when Casey Singleton and her pilot try to simulate what happened to...