The Flight of the Phoenix Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from AliceAnna

Very compelling -- I wanted to keep reading to the very end even though I basically knew the ending. The main thing I was concerned about was whether or not the monkey made it. He did. A couple of the characters weren't very well defined and I kept mixing them up. Very much story-driven rather th...

from DinadansFriend

the original novel was spare and compelling. the movie, a very good piece of escapism. The James Stewart version of course, not the later one where things get blown up far too often.

from LisaMorr

A cargo plane with a few oil drillers and military folks on board goes into a sandstorm and ends up crash landing in the middle of the desert (central Libya). What proceeds is a harrowing tale of how the survivors managed to fly out of the desert. I read it in just a little over a day - having to...

from Hagelstein

A plane flying oil workers and equipment is beset by a sandstorm, sand “the color of sickness.” Two die and another is injured in the crash landing. With little food or water, the rest wait to die in the North African sun until a passenger who is an aircraft designer focuses on an idea to create ...