Human Error

Dunmore, Patricia

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It is late in the evening when a fully-loaded Dreamliner begins its final approach to Auckland airport after a long flight from Hong Kong.

Passengers are getting ready to land, air traffic controllers are about to hand the plane over to the local tower, when suddenly the plane vanishes from the radar. No May Day was issued; everything seemed perfectly normal. But the plane, carrying 214 passengers and crew, has vanished.

The authorities have no idea why or a clue to where it is. Deep fog is rolling across the Waitakere Ranges and neither the coastguard nor LandSAR know where to search. Even the Chief Air Accident Adviser is stumped.

Detective Sergeant Maki Hohepa is part of the Police Disaster Response Unit tasked with unravelling this mystery.

But nothing is as it seems. There are unidentified passengers, missing luggage and body parts that lead to a shocking discovery. Is this sabotage by a foreign nation or was it pilot suicide? Could it be drugs-related, or is it something altogether more sinister?
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