Fly by Wire (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. Driverless cars are here to stay, and so are pilotless planes. What happens to the pilots who used to fly those planes? What happens when a pilotless flight is hacked? Tom Jordan, formerly an airline Captain, finds himself downgraded to "Safety Officer" on today's flight, one of the first fully automated flights to Shanghai. It's a route he knows well. Yet he resents his reduced role and its accompanying loss of status. When the plane unexpectedly banks, Tom's hackles rise. He is able to re-establish the correct course. But after a series of baffling events, clearly caused by electronic commands beyond his training, he knows he needs help. He asks two deadheading pilots on board, who either can't or won't help him. To the terror of passengers, the plane continues to fly from mysterious and erratic commands. Most alarming of all, when Tom reports the incidents, the dispatcher replies that on-ground computers show no such aberrations. Instead, dispatchers now suspect him of going rogue. In desperation, Tom turns to a passenger, an executive with an artificial intelligence company. They realize that the hacker is in fact onboard. Will Tom be able to ferret out the criminal? Above all, can he land the airplane after the hacker's last fiendish act is to destroy all the electronics in a fire beneath the cockpit? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Fly by Wire (Paperback)
- Author
- Ann McKenna Fromm
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 154243968X
- ISBN 13
- 9781542439688
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About the Author
Ann McKenna Fromm is an award-winning writer widely published in Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the former Pittsburgh Press and other markets. She published a collection of her most popular pieces in Steel City Love Song: Extraordinary Moments in Ordinary Lives. Fromm has ghostwritten three other books and is currently writing a second thriller with Captain Payne. Fromm, who learned to fly and soloed in a Cessna 152, has two children and lives with fiancé Bill Payne in Pittsburgh, PA.
Captain Richard Payne, a former Navy pilot, began to fly for American Airlines in 1989. He spent 12 years as a co-pilot, and 14 years as a captain, frequently flying Boeing 777s from Los Angeles to Tokyo. Payne has one son, lives in San Diego, and currently flies the Boeing Dreamliner 787. Fly by Wire is his first novel. He is writing a second thriller with his co-author.
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