About 20 years ago when I was getting my pilot's license, I came across a book at the flight school that I would like to read again.

It was a novel (fiction) set in England, and a flight instructor had to scramble into the air to help a woman who did not know how to pilot the plane she was in (a Piper Saratoga, I think it was) after her husband (the pilot) died of a heart attack. The flight instructor did talk the woman down to a landing, but he had insufficient fuel for his own airplane and had leaned the air/fuel mixture so much that the engine overheated and seized, causing him to crash. The book was unclear about whether he survived.

Does that book ring a bell with anybody?

tanstaafl.