John J. Nance

Minutes after a Boeing 747 rises majestically into a Hong Kong sunset, a flash splits the darkening sky....

A passenger plane is electronically hijacked—and may be aimed at a target that could kill millions....

A sick passenger causes a passenger plane to remain airborne. Meanwhile, someone with access to the CIA's computers wants to shoot the plane out of the sky....

On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the wing of his Boeing 757....

High above the Rocky Mountains, a routine airline flight becomes a midair standoff as 130 passengers listen to their captain relate the demands of an unseen hijacker....

The passengers of Meridian Flight Six - delayed for hours and mistreated by rude and inept airline personnel - have been pushed to the edge....

In Athens, a Boeing 737 noses into the gate, and is suddenly confronted by Greek officials waiting to arrest one of its passengers, a beloved ex-President of the United States, John Harris....

For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's first commercial spaceflight is a dream come true...

The "boomerang box," a high-tech computer program designed to save a plane experiencing flight trouble, is Dr. Ben Cole's baby....

A pair of ferocious forest fires rages out of control, threatening to destroy two American national parks and incinerate thousands of homes and park buildings....

A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. It was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, making it land - unstable land....

A crate on a transport plane from Miami to Denver is found to contain a thermonuclear bomb capable of blasting the Silicon Age back to the Stone Age....