Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.
Practical Effects
The plane set wobbles visibly. They kept it.
Acting
Charles S. Dutton screaming at a radar screen: Oscar-worthy commitment.
Visual Effects
Missile effects from a 1998 flight simulator.
Director
T.J. Scott
Aidan Quinn
John Berry
Dean Cain
Commander James Slan
Gail O'Grady
Anne Metz
Charles S. Dutton
Admiral Randolf Hennings
Tamara Hope
Linda Farley
Michael Murphy
Captain Randall Williams
Victoria Pratt
Simms
Kelly Hu
Sharon Crandall
Sasha Roiz
Wayne Johnson
Richard Fitzpatrick
Jack Miller
Ron Lea
Harold Stein
Martin Roach
Carl Fessell
Karen Robinson
Marlene Cobb
Jonathan Keltz
Doug Berry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
T.J. Scott directed this between episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess and CSI, which explains the tonal whiplash.
This aired on CBS in 2005 when networks still commissioned disaster movies for sweeps week, a tradition now extinct.
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