Kicking Tin is based on the crash of TWA800, which itself shared similarities with other high profile aviation disasters such as Lockerbie Pan Am 103, Iran Air 655, Siberia 1812, Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Ukraine and, most recently, PS752 in Tehran. It is the story of a Manchester boy who becomes a lead investigator with the NTSB in Washington. Mike Gilham is a Tin Kicker, an air crash investigator. This is his story.About the Author: Paul Charles is a speculative fiction writer. Kicking Tin is his second novel. His first, From Beyond Belief, was about a man whose wife was abducted by aliens. Paul Charles lives near London.