Thomas Block: "Mayday, Rädda Oss!". Svensk

Thomas Block: "Mayday, Rädda Oss!". Svensk

Inernasjonal forfatter på svensk

B. Wahlströms Förlag, 1981.

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Originalens tittel (på engelsk): "Mayday"

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Mayday is a 1979 thriller novel by American author Thomas Block. The novel was updated in 1998 by authors Thomas Block and Nelson DeMille and re-released as a paperback.

* Plot summary

A supersonic passenger jet flying over the Pacific Ocean, is struck by an errant missile. Due to the effects of decompression and oxygen deprivation, all but a handful are incapacitated. Three survivors must attempt to land the airplane, despite attempts to cover up the disaster.

* Movie Adaptation

Mayday was adapted in a made-for-TV movie that premiered on CBS-TV as a Sunday night movie on October 2, 2005. The movie starred Aidan Quinn, Gail O'Grady, Dean Cain, Charles Dutton, Michael Murphy, and Kelly Hu.

The name of the airline in the original novel was Trans-United (a possible merger between TWA and United), but changed in the movie to Pacific Global (a fictional airline from another thriller novel, Shadow 81 by Lucien Nahum). Other differences included navy pilot Peter Matos refusing to destroy the stricken airliner and diverting to an aircraft carrier (he was originally tricked into ditching his plane at sea), Harold Stein staying on board the flight (in the novel, he committed suicide by jumping from the airliner with his wife) and insurer Wayne Metz replaced by Anne Metz.

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