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Transpacific Airlines flight 545 encounters "severe turbulence" in midflight, and makes an emergency landing at Los Angeles with four dead passengers(including the pilot who died in the hospital) and 56 injured. The reason for the accident is a mystery: the airplane is a Norton Aircraft-manufactured N-22, a design with an excellent safety record, and the pilot is highly experienced and skilled, ruling out the possibility of human error. Passengers, flight crew, and the pilot all give conflicting accounts of the reason for the disaster, and the most likely explanation turns out to be a technical problem that was fixed years ago.

The accident takes place at the worst possible time: Norton Airlines is on the verge of concluding an eight-billion-dollar sale of N-22 aircraft to the Chinese government. Should the safety record of the N-22 be questioned, the Chinese government might cancel the sale, and Norton, already hit hard by the recession, desperately needs the deal to survive. With only a week left till the deal is signed, Casey Singleton is under immense pressure to discover the true reason for the accident and vindicate the N-22 design.

Eventually, the cause of the disaster turns out to be a combination of faulty parts and human error. While in flight, the airplane's computer and safety systems worked perfectly and detected the faulty part and attempted to automatically correct the plane to compensate. Unfortunately, the pilot had left the cockpit so that his son could have a chance to fly the plane. The son, being far less experienced than his father, panicked and attempted to fly against the plane's autopilot, causing the catastrophic accident. Embarrassed by the pilot's gross negligence, the Chinese attempted to cover up the entire incident by hiding the entire flight crew. Once these facts came to light, Norton Aircraft's reputation is saved and the deal with the Chinese goes through

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