Overview
WELCOME TO THE DEADLY SKIESPam Am Flight 10 is heading routinely from Seattle to Tokyo when one by one its engines explode. Only brilliant work by its pilot saves the 747 and the hundreds of passengers on board....
At Pan Am headquarters, the newly revived airline is facing a serious setback—rumors of financial uncertainty have panicked Wall Street and sent stock prices and bond ratings plummeting....
At the airline's maintenance facility, a mysterious intruder has left behind evidence of possible industrial sabotage....
Since the new Pan Am has risen from the ashes of deregulation to challenge the big three U.S. airlines, nothing has gone smoothly. Now with threats from all sides, Pan Am's chief pilot Brian Murphy, its new chief financial officer Elizabeth Sterling, and international financier Creighton MacRae must work together to save the beleaguered airline—if their personal feelings don't get in the way....
"The Airport of the 1990s...A superb novel."
—Library Journal
Synopsis
WELCOME TO THE DEADLY SKIES Pam Am Flight 10 is heading routinely from Seattle to Tokyo when one by one its engines explode. Only brilliant work by its pilot saves the 747 and the hundreds of passengers on board....
At Pan Am headquarters, the newly revived airline is facing a serious setback—rumors of financial uncertainty have panicked Wall Street and sent stock prices and bond ratings plummeting....
At the airline's maintenance facility, a mysterious intruder has left behind evidence of possible industrial sabotage....
Since the new Pan Am has risen from the ashes of deregulation to challenge the big three U.S. airlines, nothing has gone smoothly. Now with threats from all sides, Pan Am's chief pilot Brian Murphy, its new chief financial officer Elizabeth Sterling, and international financier Creighton MacRae must work together to save the beleaguered airline—if their personal feelings don't get in the way....
"The Airport of the 1990s...A superb novel."
—Library Journal
Library Journal
Veteran aviation novelist Nance (Scorpion Strike, Crown, 1992) has written what could turn out to be the Airport of the 1990s. When investment banker and single parent Elizabeth Sterling resurrects an airline that flies its passengers in comfort, she also chooses an appropriate name to go with it: Pan Am. Pan Am was known for its attention to passenger comfort in the better decades of air travel. The new/old airline is a success-but it is also a challenge to the few other airlines that dominate the market. ``Accidents'' plague the Pan Am effort, and the resulting intrigue, combined with the author's suspenseful writing style and apparent expertise in the subject matter, makes for a superb novel. Recommended particularly for public libraries.-Jim Cunningham, Illinois Mathematics & Science Acad., Aurora