Scatterpath Author:Maralys Wills The freak accidents keep happening -- crashes and near crashes, on-board computers going haywire -- but only on Airtech aircraft, and only on its new "fly-by-wire" planes. Is it a faulty design in software, pilot error, or something far more sinister? Investigations of black boxes and analysis of computer programs turn up nothing. Only... more » Air Safety Investigator Alan Wilcox, operating on gut instinct, senses the ominous truth -- someone, somewhere, is sabotaging these airplanes.
In the face of massive disbelief by his colleagues, in danger of sacrificing a family that is coming apart at the seams, one lone safety inspector takes on the aviation community, the FAA, and the National Transportation Safety Board, searching for pieces of the diabolical puzzle. As he matches wits with a computer genius on the edge of insanity, Wilcox becomes obsessed with stopping these mysterious and unreasonable happenings. Torn between his obligation to save human lives, and the need to rescue the son he feels slipping away, Wilcox races against the clock, trying to uncover the obscene plan before another passenger plane is strewn across the countryside and more people are killed.
Written with unbeatable authenticity this chilling "civilian" techno-thriller plays on our worst fears about safety in the air. The inside politics of the aviation community, the workings of the agencies involved, the fascinating procedures of crash investigations, all provide a backdrop for this riveting suspense novel. Scatterpath does for aviation what John Grisham's The Firm did for the legal profession.« less