- air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction
Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 431
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Random House Audio, Blessing
- Editions
- 73
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9780345412997
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