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76-575: The Overlook is the 18th novel by American crime writer Michael Connelly , and the thirteenth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch . The novel first appeared in serialised form in The New York Times Magazine , in sixteen installments published from September 17, 2006 to January 21, 2007. The tile of the book is in reference to the scene of the crime in the opening chapter. The location described in

152-601: A Boeing 737-100 as a testbed for an onboard Doppler weather radar . The resultant airborne wind shear detection and alert system was installed on many commercial airliners in the United States after the Federal Aviation Administration mandated that all commercial aircraft must have on-board wind shear-detection systems. The NTSB was also critical of the airport for failing to notify emergency services in surrounding municipalities in

228-484: A "possibility of widely scattered rain showers and thunderstorms." Another dispatch weather alert warned of "an area of isolated thunderstorms ... over Oklahoma and northern and northeastern Texas ." The flight crew reviewed these notices before takeoff. As the aircraft flew past New Orleans , Louisiana , a weather formation near the Gulf Coast strengthened. The flight crew decided to deviate from

304-496: A brief exchange, the controller gave the flight a new heading. At 17:46:50, the controller cleared the flight direct to Blue Ridge and instructed the crew to descend to 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Connors expressed his relief that the controller did not send them on the original trajectory. At 17:51:19, Nassick commented, "Looks like it's raining over Fort Worth." At 17:51:42, the Fort Worth ARTCC controller transferred

380-420: A career. Connelly's mother was a fan of crime fiction and introduced her son to the world of mystery novels . At age 12, Connelly moved with his family from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida , where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School . At age 16, Connelly's interest in crime and mystery escalated when, on his way home from his work as a hotel dishwasher, he witnessed a man throw an object into

456-521: A father of a daughter, and it hit close to home. According to Connelly, he didn't mean to write about the biggest fear of his life; it just came out that way. David Geherin states that Connelly "deliberately avoids ornate language, the kind that makes the reader stop and savor the choice of words or elegant phrasing. He doesn't want anything to inhibit the forward momentum he is working to create." Detective Bosch's life usually changes in harmony with Connelly's own life. When Connelly moved 3,000 miles across

532-478: A heart transplant and he saw what his friend was going through with survivor's guilt after the surgery. When asked if he had anything against the changes made to fit the big screen, Connelly simply replied: "If you take their money, it's their turn to tell the story". Connelly wrote another book featuring Bosch, Angels Flight (1999), before writing Void Moon (2000), a free-standing book about Las Vegas thief Cassie Black. In 2001, A Darkness More Than Night

608-404: A hedge. Connelly decided to investigate and found that the object was a gun wrapped in a lumberjack shirt. After putting the gun back, he followed the man to a bar and then left to go home to tell his father. Later that night, Connelly brought the police down to the bar, but the man was already gone. This event introduced Connelly to the world of police officers and their lives, impressing him with

684-491: A highway street light , and its nose gear touched down on the westbound lane of Highway 114, skidding across the road at at least 200 miles per hour (170 kn; 320 km/h). The aircraft's left engine hit a 1971 Toyota Celica driven by 28-year-old William Mayberry, killing him instantly. As the aircraft continued south, it hit two more street lights on the eastbound side of the highway and began fragmenting. The left horizontal stabilizer , some engine pieces, portions of

760-549: A job as a crime reporter at the Los Angeles Times . He moved to California in 1987 with his wife Linda McCaleb, whom he met while in college and married in April 1984. After moving to Los Angeles, Connelly went to see High Tower Court where Raymond Chandler 's character Philip Marlowe had lived (in his 1942 novel The High Window ), and Robert Altman had used for his film The Long Goodbye (1973). Connelly got

836-414: A lack of specific training, policies, and procedures for avoiding and escaping low-altitude wind shear was a contributing factor. The NTSB attributed the accident to lack of the ability to detect microbursts aboard aircraft; the radar equipment aboard aircraft at the time was unable to detect wind changes, only thunderstorms. After the investigation, NASA researchers at Langley Research Center modified

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912-563: A main supporting character in the Bosch novels The Crossing (2015) and The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016). Connelly has won nearly every major award given to mystery writers, including the Edgar Award , Anthony Award , Macavity Award , Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award , Dilys Award , Nero Award , Barry Award , Audie Award , Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France),

988-587: A meticulous pilot who strictly adhered to company policies. The report also stated that Connors "deviated around thunderstorms even if other flights took more direct routes" and "willingly accepted suggestions from his flight crew." Since his qualification in 1979, Connors had passed all eight en route inspections that he had undergone; the NTSB report also noted that he had received "favorable comments" regarding "cockpit discipline and standardization." Connors had logged over 29,300 hours of flight time, 3,000 of them in

1064-627: A multi-part series in the New York Times Magazine . After some editing, it was published as a novel in 2007. In October 2008, Connelly wrote The Brass Verdict , which brought together Bosch and Haller for the first time. He followed that with The Scarecrow (May 2009), which brought back McEvoy as the lead character. 9 Dragons , a novel taking Bosch to Hong Kong, was published in October 2009. The Reversal (October 2010), reunites Bosch & Haller as they work together under

1140-636: A mystery writer. Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's works featuring Philip Marlowe , and decided to transfer to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications , major in journalism, and minor in creative writing. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1980, Connelly got a job as a crime beat writer at the Daytona Beach News-Journal , where he worked for almost two years until he went to

1216-402: A reporter to write full-time. Michael Connelly received a good deal of publicity in 1994, when President Bill Clinton came out of a bookstore carrying a copy of The Concrete Blonde in front of the waiting cameras. A meeting was set up between the two at Los Angeles International Airport . In 1996, Connelly wrote The Poet , his first book not to feature Bosch, instead the protagonist

1292-543: A shower ... out there north end of DFW." Several seconds later, an unidentified flight crew member commented, "Stuff is moving in." Just three miles (4.8 km) ahead of Flight 191, a Learjet 25 was on the same approach to Runway 17L. While on final approach, the Learjet flew through the storm north of the airport and encountered what was later described as "light to moderate turbulence ". The Learjet encountered heavy rain and lost all forward visibility, but

1368-609: A timely manner. While the airport's on-site emergency services were notified almost immediately, the DFW Department of Public Safety (DPS) Communications Center did not begin notifying off-site emergency services until nearly 10 minutes after the crash and did not finish its notifications until 45 minutes after the crash. During notifications, DPS also failed to request ambulances from the adjacent communities of Irving , Grapevine , and Hurst ; however, Hurst responded with ambulances after personnel at its ambulance company overheard

1444-456: Is going. The books often reference real-world events, such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the September 11 attacks . Events that might seem of minor significance are included in some of the books, because of Connelly’s personal interest in them. For example, City of Bones , in which Detective Bosch investigates the murder of an 11-year-old boy, was written during Connelly's early years as

1520-602: The Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in 1981. There, he covered the crime beat during the South Florida cocaine wars. He stayed with the paper for a few years and in 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of the 1985 Delta Flight 191 plane crash, which story earned Connelly a place as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . The honor also brought Connelly

1596-663: The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (France) and Premio Bancarella Award (Italy). In 2012, The Black Box won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. He received the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2018 from the Crime Writers' Association . When starting a book, he says, the story is not always clear, but Connelly has “a hunch” as to where it

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1672-668: The Miami metropolitan area ; forty-five were from Broward County , nineteen were from Palm Beach County and nine were from Dade County . Among the deaths was Don Estridge , known to the world as the father of the IBM PC ; he died aboard the flight along with his wife. Two IBM summer interns, four IBM employees from the IBM branch office in Burbank , California , and six additional family members of IBM employees also perished. Flight 191

1748-579: The Mystery Writers of America 's Edgar Award for Best first Novel . The book is partly based on a true crime and is the first one featuring Connelly's primary recurring character, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch , a man who, according to Connelly, shares few similarities with the author himself. Connelly named Bosch after the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch , known for his paintings full of sin and redemption, such as

1824-646: The Dallas Police Department's Northwest Patrol Division and the Northeastern Sector of the Fort Worth Police Department's Patrol Division. After a long investigation, the NTSB deemed the cause of the crash to be attributable to pilot error (for their decision to fly through a thunderstorm), combined with extreme weather phenomena associated with microburst-induced wind shear. The NTSB also determined that

1900-613: The Department of Justice around $ 100,000 to $ 150,000 (inflation adjusted $ 250,000 to $ 370,000), and required nearly two years of work. The court found that both government personnel and the Delta flight crew were negligent, but that Delta was ultimately responsible because its pilots' negligence was the proximate cause of the accident, and the ruling was upheld on appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals . The crash

1976-588: The NTSB issued a Safety Recommendation on January 9, 1990, calling for airport executives nationwide to consider the benefits of using automated voice notification systems for their emergency aid notifications. Pilots were also required to train to react to microbursts and to quickly take evasive action in order to safely land the plane. The Delta Flight 191 crash resulted in the longest aviation trial in American history, lasting 14 months from 1988 to 1989 and presided over by Federal Judge David Owen Belew Jr. of

2052-668: The Northern District of Texas. The trial featured the first use of computer graphic animation as substantive evidence in federal court. While the use of such animation later became routine, its use in the Flight 191 litigation was sufficiently novel that it became the cover story of the December 1989 ABA Journal , the magazine of the American Bar Association . Preparing the animated video for trial cost

2128-540: The TriStar. First Officer Rudolph Przydzial "Rudy" Price Jr., age 42, had been a Delta employee since 1970. Delta captains who flew with Price described him as an "above average first officer" who possessed "excellent knowledge" of the TriStar. Price had logged 6,500 flight hours, including 1,200 in the TriStar. Flight Engineer Nicholas Nestor "Nick" Nassick, age 43, had been a Delta employee since 1976. He had logged 6,500 hours of flight time, including 4,500 in

2204-761: The TriStar. Fellow Delta employees described Nassick as "observant, alert, and professional." Connors had served with the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and fought during two tours in the Korean War . Price had served with the United States Navy from 1964 to 1970 and fought in four tours in the Vietnam War . Nassick had served with the United States Air Force from 1963 to 1976 and had fought in four tours during

2280-475: The Vietnam War. Of the 152 passengers, 128 were killed by the crash. Twelve of the twenty-four survivors were seated in a cluster near the tail of the aircraft. The NTSB report lists 126 passenger fatalities rather than 128, but notes that two of the passengers listed as survivors died more than thirty days after the crash, on September 13 and October 4, 1985. Of the dead, seventy-three originated from

2356-640: The accident. Three Rolls-Royce RB211-22B engines powered the aircraft. The crew consisted of three flight crew members and eight cabin crew members. Of the 11 crew members, only 3 flight attendants survived. In command of Flight 191 was Captain Edward Michael "Ted" Connors Jr., aged 57, had been a Delta employee since 1954. He qualified to captain the TriStar in 1979 and had passed his proficiency checks. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) mentioned in its final report that past flight crews who had flown with Connors described him as

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2432-475: The aircraft began a descent from which it never recovered. The angle of attack (AOA) was over 30° and began to vary wildly over the next few seconds. The pitch angle began to sink and the aircraft started descending below the glideslope. At 18:05:44, with the aircraft descending at more than 50 feet per second (15 m/s; 34 mph) the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) sounded. The captain responded by declaring " TOGA ", aviation shorthand for

2508-469: The airport crash report on a radio-frequency scanner. The NTSB concluded that the overall emergency response was effective due to the rapid response of on-airport personnel, but found "several problem areas" which under different circumstances "could affect adversely the medical treatment and survival of accident victims at the airport". Following the crash and the ensuing NTSB report, DFW's DPS made improvements to its postcrash notification system, including

2584-475: The airport's fire station No. 3 arrived at the crash and began fighting the fire. Additional units from fire stations No. 1 and No. 2 arrived within five minutes, and despite high wind gusts and heavy rain, the fire was mostly under control within 10 minutes after the alert was sounded. The first paramedics arrived within five minutes of the crash and immediately established triage stations. In later testimony to NTSB officials, on-site EMTs estimated that without

2660-662: The banner of the state on the retrial of a child murderer. The Haller novel The Fifth Witness was published in 2011. The Drop , which refers in part to the "Deferred Retirement Option Plan" that was described in the novel The Brass Verdict (2008), was published in November 2011. The next Bosch novel was The Black Box (2012). Connelly's subsequent novel, a legal thriller, was a return to Haller: The Gods of Guilt (2013). His next book returned to Bosch in The Burning Room (2014), and then Connelly used Haller as

2736-453: The beginning of a sound identified as rain hitting the cockpit. Connors warned Price, "You're gonna lose it all of a sudden, there it is." At 18:05:26, Connors told Price, "Push it up, push it way up." Several seconds later, the CVR recorded the sound of the engines spooling up. Connors then said, "That's it." At 18:05:36, Connors exclaimed, "Hang on to the son of a bitch!" From this point,

2812-417: The captain acknowledged. The flight crew lowered the landing gear and extended their flaps for landing. At 18:04:18, Price commented, "Lightning coming out of that one. ... Right ahead of us." Connors called out that they were at 1,000 feet (300 m) at 18:05:05. Fourteen seconds later, he cautioned Price to watch his airspeed. At the same time, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) captured

2888-617: The country, Bosch's experiences sent him in a new direction in City of Bones , written at that time. According to Connelly, his "real" job is to write about Bosch, and he brought McCaleb and Bosch together in A Darkness More Than Night in order to look at Bosch from another perspective and to keep the character interesting. Connelly often changes perspectives between characters in his novels. In Void Moon , Connelly frequently alternates between following protagonist Cassie Black and antagonist Jack Karch. In Fair Warning , Connelly outright changes

2964-648: The crash. The article explored the topic of survivor guilt and earned Connelly and his co-writers a finalist position for the Pulitzer Prize . Ten years after the crash, survivors and family members of victims gathered in Florida to recognize the tenth anniversary of the accident. In 2010, 25 years after the accident, a memorial was installed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's Founders Plaza in Grapevine . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of

3040-401: The difficulty of exiting the wreckage. Two of the passengers who initially survived the crash died more than 30 days later. On the ground, an airline employee who assisted in rescuing survivors was hospitalized overnight for chest and arm pain. The crash ultimately killed 137 people, including 128 of the 152 passengers and eight of the 11 crew (including all three flight crew members ), and

3116-771: The driver of the car. Delta Air Lines Flight 191 has the second-highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a Lockheed L-1011 anywhere in the world, after Saudia Flight 163 . Numerous public safety agencies responded to the crash, including the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Irving Fire Department, the Irving Police Department, and all available third-watch personnel from

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3192-466: The flight down to 5,000 feet (1,500 m). Nine seconds later, the controller announced that rain was north of the airport, and that the airport would be using instrument landing system (ILS) approaches. At 17:59:47, Price said, "We're gonna get our airplane washed." Around the same time, Connors switched to the arrival radio frequency and informed the approach controller that they were flying at 5,000 feet (1,500 m). The controller replied that

3268-469: The flight should expect to approach Runway 17L (later named 17C). At 18:00:36, the approach controller asked an American Airlines flight that was two aircraft ahead of Flight 191, and on the same approach, if they could see the airport. The American Airlines flight responded, "As soon as we break out of this rain shower, we will." At 18:00:51, Flight 191 was instructed to slow to 170 knots (200 mph; 310 km/h) and to turn to heading 270°. Flight 191

3344-400: The flight to DFW Airport Approach Control, which cleared the flight to descend to 7,000 feet (2,100 m). Two minutes later, the controller asked Flight 191 to deviate by 10° and to slow their airspeed to 180 knots (210 mph; 330 km/h). The crew acknowledged the request. As the flight descended, the crew prepared the aircraft for landing. At 17:56:19, the feeder controller cleared

3420-473: The flight to descend to 25,000 feet (7,600 m). At 17:43:45, the Fort Worth ARTCC controller cleared the flight down to 10,000 feet (3,000 m). The controller suggested they fly a heading of 250° toward the Blue Ridge approach, but Connors replied that the route would take them through a storm cell , stating, "I'd rather not go through it, I'd rather go around it one way or the other." After

3496-658: The intended route to make the more northerly Blue Ridge arrival to DFW. The flight held for ten to fifteen minutes over the Texarkana , Arkansas , VORTAC . At 17:35, the crew received an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) broadcast for weather on approach to DFW, and the Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) air traffic controller cleared the flight to the Blue Ridge, Texas , VORTAC and instructed

3572-462: The introduction of an automated voice notification system to reduce notification times. In 1988, following the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 while taking off from DFW, DPS completed its notification of nearby emergency services in 21 minutes; the NTSB described this as a "significant improvement" over response times after the Delta Flight 191 crash. Based on the improved response times,

3648-445: The lack of hazard information on wind shear . Forecasts of microbursts improved in the following years, with USAir Flight 1016 being the only subsequent microburst-induced crash of a commercial, fixed-wing aircraft in the United States as of 2024 . The accident aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar ( registration number N726DA). It was delivered to Delta Air Lines on February 28, 1979, and had operated continuously until

3724-596: The manager of the building to promise to phone him if the apartment ever became available. Ten years later, the manager tracked Connelly down, and Connelly decided to rent the place. This apartment served as a place to write for several years. After three years at the Los Angeles Times , Connelly wrote his first published novel, The Black Echo (1992), after previously writing two unfinished novels that he did not attempt to get published. He sold The Black Echo to Little, Brown to be published in 1992 and won

3800-509: The murder and recovering the caesium. Michael Connelly Connelly was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the second eldest child of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer , and Mary Connelly, a homemaker . He is of Irish ancestry. According to Connelly, his father was a frustrated artist who encouraged his children to want to succeed in life and was a risk taker who alternated between success and failure in his pursuit of

3876-668: The novel is based on an actual overlook above the Hollywood Reservoir and Mulholland Dam , located on the 3100 block of Canyon Lake Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles . Evidence mounts that the murder of Stanley Kent is part of a terrorist plot to build and deploy a dirty bomb , justifying the FBI's moves to push the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and Bosch to

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3952-447: The on-scene triage procedures, at least half of the surviving passengers would have died. Most of the survivors of Flight 191 were located in the aircraft's rear smoking section, which broke free from the main fuselage when the aircraft hit the water tanks. Authorities transported most of the survivors to Parkland Memorial Hospital . The cockpit and passenger section forward of seat row 34 had been completely fragmented by impact with

4028-401: The order to apply maximum thrust and abort a landing by going around . The first officer responded by pulling up and raising the nose of the aircraft, which slowed but did not stop the plane's descent. At 18:05:52, still descending at a rate around 10 feet per second (3.0 m/s; 6.8 mph), the aircraft's landing gear made contact with a plowed field 6,336 feet (1,931 m) north of

4104-647: The overarching perspective of the book on occasion, regularly following protagonist Jack McEvoy in a first-person point of view while occasionally branching away from his story to follow the antagonists in third-person. Every character in the list below, with one exception, has appeared in a Harry Bosch book. All of Michael Connelly's novels occur in the same fictional universe and character crossovers are common. Each of these characters has appeared in at least two of Connelly's novels. Novel collections: Harry Bosch series: Mickey Haller series: Stand-alones: Delta Flight 191 Delta Air Lines Flight 191

4180-653: The painting Hell , a copy of which hangs on the office wall behind Connelly's computer. Connelly describes his own work as a big canvas with all the characters of his books floating across it as currents on a painting. Sometimes they are bound to collide, creating cross currents. This is something that Connelly creates by bringing back characters from previous books and letting them play a part in books written five or six years after first being introduced. Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch— The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), and The Last Coyote (1995)—before quitting his job as

4256-420: The plane, while others who stayed caught on fire due to leaking jet fuel. He only survived due to being doused by rain from openings in the plane. The aircraft's motion across open land ended when it crashed into two water tanks on the edge of the airport property; the aircraft grazed one water tank about 1,700 feet (520 m) south of Highway 114, and then struck the second one. As the left-wing and nose struck

4332-412: The runway and 360 feet (110 m) east of the runway centerline . Remaining structurally intact, Flight 191 remained on the ground while rolling at high speed across the farmland. The main landing gear left shallow depressions in the field that extended for 240 feet (73 m) before disappearing and reappearing a few times as the aircraft approached Texas State Highway 114 . The aircraft struck

4408-410: The runway, struck a car near the airport, collided with two water tanks and disintegrated. Out of the 163 occupants on board, 137 people died and 25 others were injured in the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash resulted from the flight crew 's decision to fly through a thunderstorm, the lack of procedures or training to avoid or escape microbursts and

4484-548: The sidelines. Refusing to be sidelined, Bosch aggressively works around the FBI in order to track down Kent's killers, much to the chagrin of his young, inexperienced partner, who sees his career at the LAPD jeopardized by Bosch's actions. The FBI agents, including Rachel Walling, view Bosch as endangering their attempts to retrieve the missing caesium and to track down known terrorists. Relying on instinct and experience, Bosch pursues his line of inquiry, ultimately succeeding in solving

4560-496: The storm. At 18:03:46, the approach controller once again asked Flight 191 to reduce its speed, this time to 150 knots (170 mph), and then handed the flight over to the tower controller. Twelve seconds later, Connors radioed the tower and said, "Tower[:] Delta one ninety one heavy, out here in the rain, feels good." The tower controller advised Flight 191 that the wind was blowing at 5 knots (5.8 mph; 2.6 m/s) with gusts up to 15 knots (17 mph; 7.7 m/s), which

4636-439: The water tank, the fuselage rotated counterclockwise and was engulfed in a fireball. The fuselage from the nose rearward to row 34 was destroyed. The tail section emerged from the fireball, skidding backward and came to rest on its left side before wind gusts rotated it upright. All airport fire and emergency units were alerted within one minute of the crash. Forty-five seconds after first being alerted, three fire trucks from

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4712-465: The water tanks and post-crash fires; all but eight of the occupants in this section were killed. The remainder of the surviving passengers and crew were in the rear cabin and tail section, which separated relatively intact and landed on its side in an open field, and most of these were in the center and right portions of the fuselage from seat row 40 rearwards. Overall, the disintegration of the Tristar

4788-612: The way they worked. Connelly had planned on following his father's early choice of career in building construction and started out at the University of Florida in Gainesville , at the Rinker School of Building Construction , studying construction management. After earning grades that were lower than expected, Connelly went to see Robert Altman 's film The Long Goodbye (1973). The film, based on Raymond Chandler 's eponymous 1953 novel , inspired Connelly to want to become

4864-457: The wing control surfaces and parts of the nose gear came off the aircraft as it continued along the ground. Some witnesses later testified that fire was emerging from the left wing root . Surviving passengers reported that fire began entering the cabin through the left wall while the plane was still moving. One survivor stated that he watched passengers attempt to escape the fire by unbuckling their seatbelt and try to flee, but were sucked out of

4940-482: Was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale , Florida , to Los Angeles , California , with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW. The aircraft impacted ground just over one mile (1.6 km) short of

5016-401: Was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport , with a scheduled stop at Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The flight departed Fort Lauderdale on an instrument flight rules flight plan at 14:10 Central Daylight Time ( UTC−05:00 ). The flight's dispatch weather forecast for DFW stated

5092-555: Was a sequel to The Poet but featured Bosch instead of McEvoy. Together with this book, a DVD was released called Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles , in which film Connelly presents some of the places in Los Angeles that are frequently featured in his books. The Closers , published in May 2005, was the 11th Bosch novel. It was followed by The Lincoln Lawyer in October, Connelly's first legal novel; it features defense attorney Mickey Haller , Bosch's half-brother. The book

5168-411: Was able to continue its ILS approach and land safely. When later asked why he did not report weather conditions to the tower, the Learjet's captain testified that he had nothing to report because "the only thing that we encountered was the heavy rain." The tower controller handling landings on Runway 17L saw lightning from the storm cell after the Learjet landed, but before he saw Flight 191 emerge from

5244-654: Was featured on an episode of When Weather Changed History and Why Planes Crash on The Weather Channel , and the episode "Deadly Weather" of Survival in the Sky on The Learning Channel . The crash was mentioned in the feature film Rain Man . Working as a reporter for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in 1986, future renowned crime fiction author Michael Connelly and two other reporters conducted extensive interviews of survivors of Delta Flight 191 and wrote an article detailing their experiences during and after

5320-465: Was instructed to descend to 3,000 feet (910 m) at 18:01:34. One minute later, the approach controller turned the flight toward Runway 17L and cleared them for an ILS approach at or above 2,300 feet (700 m). Half a minute afterward, the controller asked the flight to reduce their speed to 160 knots (180 mph; 300 km/h), which the crew acknowledged. At 18:03:30 the controller advised, "And we're getting some variable winds out there due to

5396-473: Was made into a film in 2011, starring Matthew McConaughey as Haller. After releasing Crime Beat (2004), a non-fiction book about Connelly's experiences as a crime reporter, Connelly went back to Bosch with Echo Park (2006). This book sets its opening scene in the High Tower Apartment that Connelly rented and wrote from. His next Bosch story, The Overlook , was originally published as

5472-545: Was published, in which Connelly united Bosch and McCaleb to solve a crime together, before releasing two books in 2002. The first, City of Bones , was the eighth Bosch novel, and the other, Chasing the Dime , was a non-series novel. In 2001, Connelly left California for Tampa Bay, Florida , together with his wife and daughter, so that both he and his wife could be closer to their families. His novels still took place in Los Angeles. In 2003, another Bosch novel, Lost Light ,

5548-461: Was published. With this book, a CD was released, Dark Sacred Night, the Music of Harry Bosch , featuring some of the jazz music that both Connelly and the fictional character Bosch listen to. While writing Connelly listens exclusively to instrumental jazz, though, because it does not have intrusive vocals, and because the improvisational playing inspires his writing. The Narrows , published in 2004,

5624-503: Was reporter Jack McEvoy. The book was a success. In 1997, Connelly returned to Bosch in Trunk Music before writing another book, Blood Work (1997), about a different character, FBI agent Terry McCaleb . Blood Work was made into a film in 2002, directed by Clint Eastwood , who also played McCaleb, an agent with a transplanted heart, in pursuit of his donor's murderer. The book came together after one of Connelly's friends had

5700-484: Was so extensive that the NTSB investigation was quite difficult. Survivors reported that fire broke out in the cabin prior to hitting the tanks and began spreading through the aircraft's interior, which is consistent with the right wing's collision with the light pole and fuel tank ignition. Some of the people in the tail section were unable to free themselves due to injuries, so rescue crews had to extricate them. Most survivors were also soaked with jet fuel, further adding to

5776-527: Was the subject of the television movie Fire and Rain . The Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic television series Mayday dramatized the crash of Flight 191 in a season-five episode titled "Invisible Killer". The crash had previously been discussed in the Mayday season-one episode "Racing the Storm", which covered the weather-related crash landing of American Airlines Flight 1420 . The crash

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