Airport (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)

Airport (published in 1968) tells the inside story of one very difficult night in the busy working life of fictional Lincoln International Airport in the USA. There is a bad snowstorm so air traffic is held up and impatient crowds of passengers are waiting for their flights. Adding to the delays, a large plane has become stuck on one of the main runways, which means that space for landing and taking off has become dangerously limited. In the middle of all this, residents of a nearby housing estate have decided to take their protest about noise to the airport terminal itself. And these are not all the headaches facing the General Manager at the airport, Mel Bakersfield. He has a failing marriage and serious doubts about his own professional success. But everyone's nerves are stretched to the limit when a suicidal man carries out his plan to blow up Flight 2 to Rome. Will the Boeing 707 return safely to Lincoln International or will it break into pieces killing all the passengers and crew on board?