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3 unusual facts about Arthur Hailey


Arthur Hailey

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight).

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This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).

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Runway Zero-Eight (1958) – in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning.



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