Who knew I was so interested in airplanes? I certainly didn't until I was halfway through Airframe from Crichton. He somehow made the mundane (to me, at least) details of airframes incredibly interesting and added a side of suspense as well.

I’d give this 0⭐️ if I could…

Loved this book! There was enough detail that the book felt credible enough and well researched without bogging down the pace of the story. I did guess the ending but that did not stop from it being an enjoyable read to get there!

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Всичко започва с инцидент по време на полет – като следствие трима са мъртви, десетки са ранени, но самолетът все пак си каца и на пръв поглед външно му няма нищо. Но отвътре е опустошен. Медиите не обръщат внимание на случая заради факта, че е чуждестранен полет, няма загинали американци, но от компанията “Нортън”, която е построила самолета, започват щателно разследване. Този инцидент идва в много лош момент за тях – готвят голяма сделка с Китай за много от същите самолети, с парите от които ще могат не само да запълнят производствените си линии, но и да разработят следващия самолет, с който да влязат уверено в XXI век в тежката конкуренция на другите авиогиганти.

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Picked the perfect time to re-read this book, once I had forgotten how it ended. It was full of twists as the plot got deeper and more complicated, with a satisfying conclusion, a bow to wrap the story.

There are a couple weak characters and one (in my opinion) thrown together action scene that didn’t flow well.

But the good outweighed the bad, and I’m sure I’ll be back to re-read this book in another five years.

(Content warning: Violence, hardly any. Sex, implied not described. Profanity, lot of foul mouthed execs. Drugs, none)

I re-read this book, because I thought it was super exciting when I read it first, long ago. I understand why I rated it 5* back then. The technical details of aircraft manufacturing and the investigation into the accident was educating and entertaining. The short chapters kept me engaged. I still remembered the cause of the accident. Michael Crichton seems to have done his research into aviation industry and the information and jargons he provides sound hi-tech. But what would I know? Even If he had said that The left phalange is not working , I would have believed him.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½

This is an author I've heard a lot about! He has a lot of author really famous works that I've heard of, but this was the book that came into my life first.

The premise of this completely captured my interest. A plane goes through a lethal disaster while up in the air. Three passengers are dead and fifty-six are injured. Safety and death is paramount and this causes a frantic investigation into what caused the disaster.

Especially how this book starts, it's a mother and taking care of her child on board a long flight. Her husband wakes up and decides it is prime time to film the child. While filming, disaster strikes and the camera flies out of the husbands hand as the plane begins to nose dive towards the ground. Like???? That had me hooked and I wanted to know what happened to the flight. As you read further, the more you understand what could've caused the problem, but none of these predictions end up being right... so what did happen?

We then follow our main character, Casey Singleton, who is the vice president at Norton Aircraft, the place where the plane involved in the disaster was made/produced (whatever the correct technical term is). We follow her through the investigation process, through her findings, her thoughts, and general business at Norton. But there is a lot more happening that Casey doesn't know about and somehow... it's connected to this plane. It's just so intriguing agh! I was captured and didn't want to put the book down until I figured out what happened to the plane and why. I also became intrigued by the workings at Norton and why certain people were acting so sketchy.

I really enjoyed the writing style and the detail of this book. The author uses a lot of plane terminology that is well explained for someone who knows literally nothing about any of that stuff. It actually made it more realistic and interesting for me. Like these are real things people do and these are problems that companies face (maybe not to such an extreme, but who knows), how interesting!

The only thing I had a problem with is I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUSBAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK! Where did he go? Is he one of the ones who died...? Like what happened with that??? This in no way connects to the plot of the story so I feel like I can share what happened. He is filming the child, the incident happens, and the wife recalls looking over to her husband and he is no longer in his seat. Where did he go? Did he fly to the front of the plane? Is he injured? Is he dead? I WANT TO KNOW! When Casey arrives on the scene it is mentioned there is a mother and an infant, which I'm assuming is the perspective of those we first saw, and those I'm mentioning now. Where is the husband.... hmmmmm.

Beware: Unnecessary bad language

I loved the story line but dislikes the bad language which did not add to the story. Will be more cautious before reading another.

I read this book aloud to my husband during the past week or so, and parts of it were very dramatic, but other parts (all those charts!) were a bit dull even though we knew they were important. I don't know how a narrator for an audio version would read them, I either handed the book to Marco and let him see for himself, or else I just said 'lots of numbers that I am not going to read'. We got the gist of it all anyway.

Casey Singleton is in charge of a team trying to figure out what went wrong on flight 545, which did not crash but had a severe inflight 'incident'. There are many layers to what is involved, and it seems that everyone around her has some reason to keep her from finding out the truth. Typical Chrichton fast moving story, but it does tend to porpoise a bit just like the plane itself did. We would just get super interested in the action when the story would stall out into technical details or background or the introduction of a new character and take a nosedive.

I learned a great new expression, shouted in disgust by one of the airplane manufacturer's engineers when he is examining the engine and discovers something that is not the way it should be, even though he insists it could not have contributed to the 'incident'. "Fuck a hairy duck!" With apologies to anyone who may be offended by that, I hope I can remember to use it once in awhile!

Okay, okay - obviously not great literature, but I needed an easy read for the Easter weekend after a few long weeks at the office. I had picked this up for my (then 15 year old) son a year or two ago, remembering that I had enjoyed The Andromeda Strain when I was his age (many) years ago. I guess I'm more demanding now - this read way too much like a two-star made-for-TV movie script. But at least it kept me away from the TV over the weekend. Except for the Masters tournament, hockey and baseball games. Sigh...

When I started this, I was picturing it as an Alan J. Pakula film about a woman up against the oppressive forces of a giant corporation, perfectly symbolized by the massive aircrafts being build around her. And then, halfway through, it turned into a Clint Eastwood film about this corporation being railroaded by the media, perfectly symbolized by Olivia Wilde’s character from Richard Jewell showing up.

Does Michael Crichton ever miss the mark? Airframe is another page-turner from the prolific author which kept me guessing what would happen next. There's mystery, there's intrigue, and there's a real feeling of magnitude in every event in the story. The twists had meaning and the ending was creative and satisfying.