Arthur Heiley Airport

the satellite map of O'Hare International Airport
Lincoln International ,the fictional airport in Airport (novel) based on O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
the landing gear
A airliner , damaged by a mad man
Close the runway30
Use the runway25
The storyline
Caused the residents’discontent
The runway25 is inadequate to land Joe patroni drove away a stuck airplane which blocked the damaged plane’s landing The plane landed safely,and the manager began a love storywith the female assistant
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The Main Characters
• Mel Bakersfield :the General Manager 机场经理 • Joe Patroni :the head of maintenance operations 维
About Mel Bakersfield
• The action mainly centers on Mel Bakersfeld. • His devotion to his job is tearing apart his family His wife Cindy resents him. • His problems in his marriage are his romantically-charged friendship with a lovely female assistant Gwen Meighen .
The Plots
• The story takes place at Lincoln International Airport. • The storyline centers on Bakersfeld's struggles to keep the airport open during the storm. • His chief problem is the unexpected closure of primary Runway three zero.
Airport
-Arthur Hailey
Airport
Brief Introduction of the Author
The background of the novel
The Contents
• Arthur Hailey (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a British/Canadian novelist.
Young _Old
Background
• Earlier in his writing career, Hailey also wrote Runway Zero Eight, which was a novelization of the television play Flight into Danger (1956) and later inspired the films Zero Hour (1957) and Terror in the Sky (1971). The plot of Runway Zero Eight features prominently in the comedy spoof Airplane! (1980).
Air Crash
修主管
• Guerrero: a bankrupt building contractor建筑承包商
(who caused the bombing just for an insurance-fraud death benefit to his wife )
• Vernon Demerest: senior pilot • Gwen Meighen: a senior stewardess 空姐