The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel

1964 in literature

The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners....

 by Elleston Trevor

Elleston Trevor

Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith , who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone...

. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert

Desert

A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...

 and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. It was the basis for the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)

The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich and based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor...

and the 2004 remake entitled Flight of the Phoenix

Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)

Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of a 1965 film, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive a plane crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new plane out of the old one to escape. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Tyrese...

.

Elleston Trevor (born Trevor-Dudley Smith) (1920–1995) published more than 100 books during his prolific career of more than 50 years.