Looking for fiction involving crashed airplanes

Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason
Night Moves by Randy Wayne White

You might try looking at the work pages for these two books and checking the recommendations there.

(The other book does not appear on LT.)

Tagmash list: https://www.librarything.com/tag/fiction,+plane+crash

Nevil Shute’s No highway might be one that fits your criteria.

>3 thorold: Thanks for the suggestion. I've asked my local brick and mortar library to hold me a copy. Happy New Year.

Hammond Innes wrote several adventure stories with planes at their heart: Air Bridge, Air Disaster, The Land God Gave to Cain...

I'd add books by David Beatty.

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Flight #116 Is Down! by Caroline B. Cooney
And I Alone Survived by Lauren Elder
This last one is a memoir but reads like fiction!

I'm late to the party but you might also want to consider After the Crash by French mystery writer, Michel Bussi.

Some popular author of the Robert Ludlum variety wrote a novel that had a plane crashing into one of the Twin Towers. This was some years before that actually happened. Maybe someone else can pinpoint it.

And of course Lord of the Flies.

Flight or fright ed. by Bev Vincent and Stephen King might be worth a look.

>1 Top.Notch.Hill:

If you don't mind science-fiction, John Varley's Millenium.

Michael Crichton's Airframe.

>9 Cecilturtle: Thank you for the recommendation.

>11 Meredy: Lordy, lordy, how did I forget that one!

>12 Yuki-Onna: Thank you for the suggestion.

>3 thorold: Nevil Shute turned out to be a rich vein for stories about airplanes coming down other than in intended places. Thank you.

I'm late to the party as well, but . . . a few more suggestions:

Planes Down in Unintended Places
Elleston Trevor, Flight of the Phoenix (North African desert)
Ernest K Gann The Aviator (US Rocky Mountains, 1920s)
Ernest K. Gann Island in the Sky (Canadian Arctic)
Alistair MacLean Night Without End (Arctic, possibly Greenland)
Desmond Bagley, High Citadel (Andes Mountains)
Nelson DeMille, By the Rivers of Babylon (Mideast desert)
Thomas H. Block Orbit (a hypersonic airliner winds up in low-Earth orbit by accident)

Planes Down in Unintended Places Before the Story Proper Begins
Duncan Kyle, Green River High (Amazon jungle)
Jack Higgins, East of Desolation (Greenland)
Alistair MacLean Fear is the Key (Gulf of Mexico?)

May or May Not Be What You're Looking For
Ernest K. Gann Band of Brothers (veteran pilots investigate an airliner crash to clear a friend)
Michael Crichton Airframe (engineers investigate an in-flight incident with fatalities; no crash)
Stephen King The Langoliers (a transcontinental airliner lands in an uncanny place)
David Graham Down to a Sunless Sea (refugees from a nuclear war search for a safe landing)

Death and Deliverance: The Haunting True Story of the Hercules Crash at the North Pole by Robert Mason Lee

>18 ABVR: I forgot to mention Flight of the Phoenix when I posted earlier. Glad you mentioned it. It was a great one, and the first movie (the one with Jimmy Steward) followed the book very closely. (Unlike the more recent remake which was a plane wreck, pun intended.)

Girl underwater by Claire Kells deals mostly with the folks surviving a plane crash in a lake in the wilderness. Some of them are on a swim team, which helps.

The Interview by C. M. Ewan. It's not obvious from the synopsis, but the book centers around a plane crash and unsafe planes.

https://www.librarything.com/work/19113488
Beneath another sky, Norman Davies, 2018
It's also comprehensive, epic and as when the author surprises us with his conjecture about the fate of flight MH-370 occasionally surprising, as well.

https://www.librarything.com/work/26119893/book/237268593
The Disappearing Act, Florence de Changy, 2021

https://www.librarything.com/work/22950959/book/237268618
The Hunt for MH370, Ean Higgins, 2019

https://www.librarything.com/work/38559/book/243888534
Thunderball (A James Bond Adventure), Ian Fleming, 1961

>10 Meredy: I tried Bard on this question, which it failed miserably - but after digging a bit using Google this might be the one :

> Some popular author of the Robert Ludlum variety wrote a novel that had a plane crashing into one of the Twin Towers. This was some years before that actually happened. Maybe someone else can pinpoint it.

Tom Clancy predicted a similar disaster to 9/11 in his 1994 novel Debt of Honour, in which several senior politicians are killed when a terrorist crashes a jetliner into the US Capitol (albeit a Japanese terrorist).