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by John J. Nance (Author)
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An airliner attempting a bad-weather landing in a Midwest city plows into another awaiting takeoff. With more than 100 people dead, the National Transportation Safety Board assigns Joe Wallingford to investigate. Was the disaster caused by human error or by technical malfunction? Did outside electronic interference, perhaps from a top-secret SDI radar, disrupt flight controls? Nance, a leading airline safety analyst and author of nonfiction works on aviation, debuts as a novelist with a first-rate technical detective story. While keeping readers in suspense, he explores the dynamics of factions within the safety bureaucracy and limns the problems raised for airline management by deregulation. With realistic dialogue and convincing characters, particularly Wallingford and Senator Kell Martinson, this nonmilitary techno-thriller is a sure winner.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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YA-- Joe Wallingford, National Transportation Safety Board investigator, perseveres through many obstacles to determine why two planes collided, killing most of the crew and passengers. Although there are twists and turns in the plot, it is not as complicated as many other books of this type. Nance's knowledge of Washington comes through clearly both in the physical description of places and in the political frustrations: cover-ups, relationship of private industry to independent agencies, Defense Department silence, individuals' quests for power, and the need for influential friends. Government students will see the detailed operation of one government agency as they come to know one stubborn, qualified civil servant who cares about his job. The only disappointment is the ending, which, while optimistic, is not realistic. --Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 The only reason I read this book to the end was..., Aoû 10 2002
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This review is from: Final Approach (Mass Market Paperback)
... because I love airplanes. Other than that, a reader with average intelligence will always be two steps ahead of this rather predictable tale. However, Mr. Nance has a lot of insight into how the aviation industry is regulated, and it was a pleasure to read a novel written by somebody knowledgable about the inner workings of the FAA and airlines.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Final Approach- by John J. Nance, Janv. 27 2001
This review is from: Final Approach (Mass Market Paperback)
After reading Nance's thrillers, such as Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child, this book was a major dissapointment when I finally forced myself to read it. It started out excellent, with a very good crash scene. However, by the middle, continuing through the end, no action occured at all. It is a book that can educate you on the inside of the FAA, NTSB, and airline industries, but if you want action, this book will leave you feeling deflated.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Can anybody fly this thing?, Aoû 13 2000
This review is from: Final Approach (Mass Market Paperback)
"Final Approach" follows the fictional investigation of an air disaster in Kansas, an idea that promises explosive tension, and then punks out. This is because "Final Approach" is simply an example of the sort of thrillers to be churned out in the information age, where the heroes and villains are just bureaucrats. By the time we've finished "Final Approach", flying remains an experience as alien as when the book opens, but now we've become smarter in the bureaucratci workings of the FAA and NTSB among others, not to mention that the government hides information (huh? ) and that the media will exploit stories for their ratings value rather than invetsigate them (no way! ). Even as a bureaucratic-mystery, "Final Approach" fails. Though the heroes are meant to represent the most efficient resources the government can use to prove the cause of the fatal crash, the solution is not revealed by intelligent ivestigators and dogged investigation, but because somebody just gives up and blabs the truth. The conspiracy theories and hysteria by which the author condescends to non-experts (The media is bad for feeding us stories it can't really stand by, and we're bad for accepting it so easily) make it convenient for his protagonists to look busy, even as they remain oblivious to the truth. Anybody could have solved this mystery.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 I've always been impressed with Nance
John Nance continues to impress me, and "Final Approach" only solidifies that. The book kept me picking it up and reading it when I should have been doing other things... Read more
Publié le Déc 17 1999 par R. Connon

2.0étoiles sur 5 Boring and Tedious
I have read other Nance books ("Medusa's Child" and "Pandora's Clock") and found them to be much more intriguing and exciting than this snoozer. Read more
Publié le Jui 25 1999 par BradJ11@aol.com

3.0étoiles sur 5 It's a good book but I find others better.
Final Appoach is a good book. I was intrested in the book but not that intrested. I had read Pandoras Clock and Medusa's Child also by John J. Read more
Publié le Juil 23 1998

4.0étoiles sur 5 Read this one before Nance's "Pandora's Clock"
Author Nance is a well-seasoned commercial aviator. He also writes a good yarn in Final Approach. Though not as captivating as Trevanian and Ludlum, he does do an outstanding... Read more
Publié le Déc 30 1997

5.0étoiles sur 5 Makes one think about what's really behind the investigation
If you want a real appreciation for what goes on "Behind the Scenes" in an airline investigation this book will crystalize it for you. Read more
Publié le Déc 4 1996

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