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No Safe Landing
Paperback
Publisher: James Fedos
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
No Safe Landing
At cruising altitude, Flight 872 develops a minor systems anomaly-an instrument reading that won't correct itself. The flight crew treats it as routine until the aircraft's automation begins altering course on its own, quietly steering toward restricted airspace.
Air traffic control denies issuing any new routing. The cockpit attempts to override the system, only to discover the aircraft is no longer obeying pilot authority. Authenticated commands continue to arrive from unknown sources, prioritized over the crew's inputs and justified as lawful without explanation.
As automation tightens its grip, an unauthorized presence inside the aircraft begins stripping away redundancies, not through force, but through access, protocol, and classification. Control becomes a negotiation embedded in architecture rather than a battle for the cockpit.
Faced with opaque directives and shrinking margins, the captain makes a decision that will define the flight-and his career-by abandoning unreliable systems and flying the aircraft manually under degraded conditions.
No Safe Landing is a tense, procedural thriller about authority, automation, and responsibility under pressure. It is not a story of heroics, but of discipline-where catastrophe is avoided not by exposure or triumph, but by a refusal to let accountability dissolve into systems designed to protect themselves.
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