Airframe
- 431
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Airframe” turns an air accident investigation into a thriller about how the aircraft industry really works. The technical detail is the attraction for readers curious about aviation, and the heroine is up against a short deadline and company politics. Some find everything before the climax slow by comparison with the tense finish; others race through it.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 374 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 72% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 85 | 23% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 289 | 77% |
Frequently asked
How long is Airframe?
It has 431 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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