Author(s): Ewan Wilson

Biographies & Memoirs

You look up in the sky to see a plane fly overhead, and it doesn't occur to you that the aircraft might be about to plummet down onto your home. When you read Help! My Plane's On Fire, you'll look at those passing jets in a whole new light. Ewan Wilson has squeezed more into his 42 years than most people manage in a lifetime. Having been at the helm of an international airline that crashed and burned in the middle of a dirty tricks campaign against it, the last place Wilson expected to end up was at the helm of an actual airliner burning and in danger of crashing. Yet as you'll read, high above the Pacific Ocean that's exactly the predicament he found himself in ...Join Ewan for an at-times edge of the seat journey, and at others a gentle reminder of what it is to be human in the midst of great tragedy, as he documents everything from mid-air drama to helping rebuild shattered lives after the Asian tsunami, whilst trying to juggle the dark arts of local body politics as a Hamilton councillor ...