Mayday
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- ISBN13: 9780446604765
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
An airliner on a routine flight from San Francisco to Tokyo is struck by a U.S. Navy missile. Because of the sudden change in cabin pressure, all but five people on board are either dead, comatose, or raving mad. As Flight 52 becomes the essential test of survival, onboard horrors start to mount up. In addition, the airline, the insurance company, and the Navy are desperate to take in up the mishap–no matter what the cost. LG selection. BOMC alternate selection. Ads in “People”.
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I am a pilot! I should know!
I start out this review adage this because that is how THEY start the book…Not with the first chapter, but with a shameless “About the Authors” section that is several pages long. This is usually place at the end of a book and is only a paragraph or two. I wish I would have noticed this when I selected this book up at the bookstore.
Block says he “left college, and pursued his aviation career, joining the ex- Mohawk Airlines at age nineteen, apt the youngest airline copilot in the United States.” Oh, flight attendant, can you pass me a puke sack, please? First of all, I highly doubt this aver, as I hear this kind of thing too regularly. Secondly, who really cares? To get hired so young is LUCK, not skill, and it’s not like getting hired that young was an incredible feat back then. How much flying experience do you reflect a name could have at age nineteen, anyway.
But this does make for a nice segue to my next point, which is their dreadful stereotyping of the crew. Block has the guts to proclaim how young he was when he got hired, yet the “silver haired” stud Captain has to place up with the Playboy reading “new breed.” (“He had small patience for the new breed. They had a job that was fifty times better than what had come before, yet they seemed to complain constantly. Did they realize that thirty years ago (he) had to hand-plot each and every route segment before climbing into the copilot’s seat? Spoiled, (he) said to himself.”) Excellent lord.
If that weren’t enough, the ending is entirely predictable.
(…) Too terrible, because DeMille fans rave about him constantly, and it’ll be a while before I can come around to read his stuff. As for Block, I WON’T be wasting my time on his material again.
If you want GOOD commercial aviation books, check out John Nance, especially Final Approach and The Last Hostage. EXCELLENT, accurate details about commercial aviation, excellent plots, fantastic characters. Things THIS book is seriously missing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I read the Thomas H. Block version and it wasn’t all that excellent. I haven’t read the updated version (please tell me if there is much of a difference additional than technological) I read it on the plane for a laugh (the take in has a plane crashing on it) but the last laugh was on me.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Excellent read. After that one, you don’t want to glide anytime soon anymore.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Well I read this book on a trip to Soeul,Korea a very long plane ride at 36,000 feet. The book has some very appealing points about insurance, Military as well as the human will to survive.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book held my attention like only two additional books that I have read, Grisham’s “The Partner” and Baldacci’s “The Winner”. I started this book on a flight from Memphis to Puerto Rico. I was on the edge of my seat for the entire flight, although I was tempted to go to the lavatory to read this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5