An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.
Practical Effects
Shaky cockpit sets that somehow heighten the claustrophobia.
Acting
Robert Urich's mustache does 80% of the emotional heavy lifting.
Director
Mike Robe
Robert Urich
Capt. Glen (Lucky) Singer
Annette O'Toole
Connie Phipps
John de Lancie
Capt. George W. Bouchard
Jim Byrnes
Duke Houston
Ken Pogue
Ian Pryce
Blu Mankuma
Jack Eberly
Tom McBeath
Pilot of Private Plane N9478C
Kevin McNulty
Henry Gibbons
Stephen E. Miller
Lt. Col. Frank O'Hearn
Gwynyth Walsh
Patty
Lorraine Landry
Jill Zimmer
Carrie Cain-Sparks
Crystal Dupree
Aaron Joseph
Adam Dupree
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is essentially a beat-for-beat TV remake of 1979's 'The Concorde... Airport '79,' itself a franchise corpse. The elevator jam premise was recycled because disaster movies never die, they just get cheaper.
John de Lancie playing a smug antagonist? Shocking. The man spent seven years as Q on Star Trek perfecting 'condescending authority figure who might destroy you.' Typecasting is a hell of a drug.
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