Final Approach, by John Nance, a-minus, produced by the Library of Congress National Library Services and borrowed from that library.In this thriller, John Nance creates a situation which everyone dreads occurring. This is in the late 1980’s. An air bus, a mammoth plane, is coming in to Kansas City airport during a thunderstorm. The airport is thinking about closing down the runways because of the constant lightning strikes and loss of visibility. On an adjacent runway a Boeing 737 sits, fully loaded with passengers and ready for takeoff. But when the plane pushes back, the pilot decides it’s too dangerous to take off and asks to wait for the storm to abate. Suddenly, he sees the mammoth air bus headed right toward them, coming down on the wrong runway. It hits the 737, and most of its passengers are killed, along with many in the air bus as well. Then we have the convergence of all the agencies charged withinvestigating such a calamity. There’s the FAA, the airline company itself, the pilots association, the air controllers association, and the air bus company. All of them have the idea of making sure that they are not blamed for the disaster. This is a thriller where suspense reigns supreme regarding the outcome and the ultimate reason for the crash, until almost the end. Very good. The only problem with John Nance books is that you think twice about flying any time soon after reading one of them.
