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Flight into Danger Kindle Edition

by John Castle (Author), Arthur Hailey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
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When George Spencer, a salesman trouble-shooter, managed late one night to catch the last seat on a charter plane at Winnipeg, there was nothing to distinguish the flight from hundreds of others which take place all over the world every day. The fifty-odd passengers were ordinary, intelligent people out to enjoy themselves at an important ball game. The crew were well-trained and efficient. The aircraft was a four-engined luxury plane of the type you would see at any large airport.
True, they were late arriving at Winnipeg from Toronto due to local ground fog, but there was nothing alarming in that. It was soon after they had begun the last leg of their journey, across 1,500 miles of rugged mountainous country to Vancouver, that things started to happen - things that could happen anywhere.
The reader shares the nerve-wracking tension of an appalling emergency nearly four miles above the earth, learns something of what it means to attempt to control a modern airliner, and follows step by step the urgent developments on the ground.
Flight into Danger is a unique collaboration between John Castle and Arthur Hailey, two writers who have each established for himself a considerable reputation for fully-documented, completely realistic suspense. It was originally published in the USA under the title Runway Zero-Eight.

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    October 1, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00WMYTSDW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Souvenir Press; New Impression edition (October 1, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 237 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 125 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 356 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
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Sascha496
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2023
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If a sequence in a story could keep you on edge, this one certainly did. Very exciting and very well written.
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Charles S. Fannin
4.0 out of 5 stars A thriller that spawned one of the funniest movies ever made........
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2016
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Good aviation thrillers, quite plausible for the times it was written. I enjoyed it the first time I ready it, back in the 70s. But as they say in the infomercials, "Wait, there's more". The plot, and some of the dialogue, of this story are used as the basis for the movie Airplane. Surely, you are joking! No, I'm not, and don't call me Shirley. Airplane has all the added jokes, but if you read this, you will recognize the story. Just, no jive, no Kareem, no Otto the autopilot. A good story playing it straight, but if you've seen airplane, there are parts where you will smile. Do you like "Gladiator Movies......"?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2017
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This book was a joy to read. Many great moments in it and a great finish. A great piece of writing.
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Delta D.
3.0 out of 5 stars Early Arthur Hailey, obviously learning his craft
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020
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I'm no fan of Arthur Hailey, but I do admire his technique. His storytelling is over-the-top, but he makes it more convincing with the detail. As the years progressed, his heroes became evermore super-heroic, his heroines equally over-the-top. In this very early novel, those superlative qualities are played down. Here we have a few regular characters - a truck salesman with WW2 fighter pilot experience, a doctor and a flight attendant, dealing with a dire in-flight emergency.

The signature detail is there: Issues about the fuel mixture, the required brake pressures, the aerodynamics of extending the flaps and lowering the undercarriage.

But the underlytng story is pretty ridiculous and lends itself to parody. My reason for reading it now was as a component of yet another book, film-of-the-book, remake-of-the film-of the book. In this trifecta, the remake-of-the-film-of-the-book is that glorious rapid-fire comedy, Airplane!

One can easily see why the Airplane! producers picked on this one. Several of the lines which were comic in Airplane! are presented in full seriousness in the novel. It really is not a great novel. I have no recollection of seeing the-film-of-the-book, Zero Hour, but after I have watched that, I shall really enjoy revisiting the extraordinarily rapid-fire parody.
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lim teck huak
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome ride
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017
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Couldn t put the book down even though it is already passed the wee hours of the morning. Enjoyed this novel.
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Ross
5.0 out of 5 stars Great classic and a real thriller
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
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I may read it again and again.I love this book. A terrifying read I must say. This is a wonderful read
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M.R.
4.0 out of 5 stars AKA - Runway Zero Eight
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015
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If you are not aware of this, Flight into Danger is also known as Runway Zero Eight. Very difficult to find an audio tape under the name Runway Zero Eight. Did some checking, discovered it under Flight into Danger.
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Bernice M. Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars DYNAMITE!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
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couldn't put down!!
I am never disappointed in anything written by Arthur Hailey . Great story and really held my interest!
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Carmen
5.0 out of 5 stars A great, fast-paced read!
Reviewed in Canada on August 29, 2017
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I really enjoyed it, as I have all the books Arthur Hayley wrote. He pays attention to detail and you learn something... Although a lot of the industries he wrote about in the sixties have changed drastically since then.
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D. Hinzmann
4.0 out of 5 stars Fernsehspiel und Roman sehr nahe beieinander.
Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2017
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Wer das Fernsehspiel mag, wird auch den Roman sehr mögen, weil die TV-Umsetzung offenbar sich sehr nahe - zu nicht unerheblichen Teilen: wörtlich - am Buch orientiert.
In einigen - vor allem flugtechnischen - Bereichen ist das Buch detaillierter als das FS, was für's Lesen völlig ok ist, im FS hätte das eher gelangweilt. Das technisch abweichende Ende des Fluges im Buch gegenüber dem FS war wohl der Kostenfrage beim FS geschuldet.

Als einziges Urlaubslektürestück vllt.etwas wenig, aber deswegen, weil man es selbst bei Kenntnis des FS "kaum aus der Hand legen" will.
Gerade diese Kompaktheit gefällt, auch wenn der Schreibstil natürlich aus den 50/60er Jahren stammt; dafür wäre das ganze heute durch 20 Explosionen, 19 Terroristen und 18 kaum glaubliche Liebesgeschichten ...ääääh Sexszenen aufgebläht. Weniger ist auch hier mehr.
Ich kann mich aber irgendwie nicht entscheiden, ob ich die Problemlandung im FS oder im Buch "besser" finde.
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Ramanan
5.0 out of 5 stars Thriller all the way
Reviewed in India on May 30, 2018
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It’s a thriller all the way, despite reading it for the nth time. Gripping throughout and the buildup is very beautiful.
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gdr
5.0 out of 5 stars flight into danger
Reviewed in France on February 27, 2016
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une oeuvre mineure de l'auteur, mais qui manquait à ma collection papier et est introuvable depuis des lunes. Merci d'avoir réédité Arthur Hayley en Kindle. Malgré les années il reste un très grand auteur
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Littlewing
5.0 out of 5 stars A great story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2015
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The best time to start reading this book is just after going airside in terminal 5 at Heathrow.
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