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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).

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).

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



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