Analyzing the Impact of Setting

The book, Airport, the airport that the most of the action takes place is Lincoln International Airport.  It is a fictional airport in Chicago, Illinois that is supposed to mimick Chicago O'Hare International Airport.  The weather conditions are terrible.  The winds are gusting over 50 mph crosswind and the snow makes the visiblity less than a mile.  The wind is highlighted with the closure of Runway 30.  Runway 30 is the longest runway at the airport and the only runway that goes into the wind on this particular night.  The airport must use an interescting runway, 25.  There is also a Boeing 707 stuck in the mud right off of Runway 30.  All I have just said was written by the author very descriptively.  I could picture the airport and the surrounding area. 

There is a Trans America flight 2 to Rome that was delayed by weather.  On board was an important stowaway, Ada Quonsett, who would prove critical in the moments before the bombing.  The suicide bomber, D.O. Guerro was sitting next to her.  As most people expect, the bomb did go off in the lavartory, not killing anyone but D.O.  It critically injures a flight attendant that was trying to confiscate the bomb.  At the airport, the airport crew got the stuck B707 out of the mud that was adjacent to Runway 30.  The weather conditions are the worst for an emergeny landing with a broken fuselage.  It is suspensful because you do not know what is going to happen.  The plane could break up in mid air, crash upon landing, land perfectly or what.  Your heart will race and your muscles will get tense when you get to here.

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