On a rain-slashed and gusty night, North America Airlines Flight 255 descends from a stormy sky - to trigger one of the most horrifying aviation disasters of the decade. Scores of passengers and crew members are killed or injured. For a thousand reasons it never should have happened; it is the National Transportation Safety Board's investigator Joe Wallingford's job to discover the reasons why it did.

  On a long and difficult journey, Wallingford goes behind doors usually closed to the flying public, and seeks to discover what the wreckage is telling him and what certain people are trying to hide. When an anonymous caller claims that the crash was due to sabotage involving a racist, right-wing politician, the media circus is whipped into a frenzy, and Joe realizes he is racing against time. Here are the unseen but potentially disastrous effects of airline cost-cutting, the strained relations between management and pilots, and the Federal Aviation Administration's bureaucratic game playing with people's lives.

  FINAL APPROACH brings Wallingford closer to the truth, and closer to professional suicide. What keeps him going is old fashioned integrity and the prospect of a nonprofessional encounter with Dr. Susan Kelly, his beautiful, brilliant superior on the National Transportation Safety Board.

  It takes Wallingford's revelations at a shocking NTSB Board of Inquiry and a senator's brilliant questioning in a sensational Senate Subcommittee hearing to destroy a sinister attempted cover-up and solve the riddle of the Kansas City disaster; a headline-grabbing occurrence that embarrasses the White House and affects future airline policy, along with the lives of the people involved.

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