Newcastle, Wash. (June 2001) — Japphire is proud to announce that TRACON by Paul McElroy won the 2001 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for mystery/suspense/thriller and the bronze 2001 Book of the Year Award in the fiction/mystery category. Full news release

Most of the time, passengers don’t know an air traffic controller just saved their lives

ATC media expert says controllers are misunderstood

Newcastle, Wash. (May 2001) — Heavy can light fixtures, ceiling tiles and jagged shards of thick plate glass rained down on air traffic controllers inside the tower cab of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Feb. 28 as a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Emerald City. Full news release

Newcastle, Wash. (April 2001) — “The air traffic control world is off-limits to most of you and, consequently, often misunderstood. This book accomplishes what many media accounts, newspaper articles, magazine treatments, and movies have tried and failed to do: get into the minds of the men and women who are responsible for more lives in an hour than most surgeons are in a lifetime. TRACON is a fictionalized account so accurate and chilling in its realism that it strikes people in the aviation business as a narrative summary of actual events.” — John S. Carr, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
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Newcastle, Wash. (November 2000) — Japphire announced today its third printing of TRACON, a suspense novel about air traffic control by Paul McElroy, bringing to 25,000 the number of copies in print. Full news release

Newcastle, Wash. (Sept. 22, 2000) — Japphire announced today a second printing of its newly released suspense novel about air traffic control by Paul McElroy, bringing to 10,000 the number of copies in print. Full news release