John J Nance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
An airliner is hijacked by its pilot who threatens to destroy it unless a passenger confesses to a crime. The passenger is a judge who allegedly covered up for a pedophile who tortured and killed the pilot's daughter. A woman FBI agent comes on board during a refuelling and the two negotiate in the air. By the author of Medusa's Child.
2) Blackout
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
An FBI agent discovers a conspiracy to send planes falling from the sky in this suspense-charged thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance A Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 jetliner crashes into the Gulf of Mexico a mile inside Cuban waters, killing all three hundred and twenty passengers onboard. The last three minutes on the plane's cockpit voice and data recorders have been erased. Was this a massive mechanical failure or...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Scott McKay, captain of an air cargo company, discovers while in the air over Washington D.C. that he is carrying a fully armed device that when detonated has the power to destroy millions of people, and to make matters worse, McKay's plane is in the direct path of an incoming hurricane.
4) Lockout
Author
Publisher
Wildblue Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first sense nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios - and when armed fighters...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Description
An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
10) Final approach
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Joe, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, faces the tough job of figuring out what happened in the aviation disaster of North American Airlines Flight 255.
13) Scorpion strike
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
A hastily assembled strike force flies into Iraq to stop the release of an artificial virus by Saddam Hussein.