When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?
Acting
Joe Mantegna collects a paycheck from a phone booth.
Practical Effects
The airplane set wobbles endearingly during 'turbulence'.
Production
Shot in Montreal pretending to be... somewhere with money.
Director
Robert Tinnell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Elisha Cuthbert's feature film debut at age 15, two years before playing Kim Bauer in 24. The airplane trauma was evidently typecasting.
Airspeed is essentially a Canadian knockoff of Airport '75 but with a teenager instead of Karen Black, and somehow even less plausible. It aired on Fox Family Channel before theatrical release.
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