Airframe

Name: Airframe
Author: Michael Crichton

1996 novel by Michael Crichton

Written workliterary workQ249407

Author: Michael Crichton
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-19
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Released: 1996
Language: English
Genre: techno-thriller
, science fiction
, thriller
Follows: The Lost World
Followed by: Timeline

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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. As a paperback, Airframe was released in 1997 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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Country of origin: United States
Title: Airframe
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-19
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Has version, edition or translation: Airframe
Airframe
Punto crítico
Punto critico released: July 1, 2008 · distribution format: paperback · language: Italian
Website: michaelcrichton.com/airframe
Form of creative work: novel

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