Falling from the Sky: Flight 174
- William Devane: Capt. Bob Pearson
- Scott Hylands: Maurice Quintal
- Shelley Hack: Lynn Brown
- Kevin McNulty: Larry Roberts
- Gwynyth Walsh: Pearl Dion
- Suzy Joachim: Florence Bisaillon
- Nicholas Turturro: Al Williams
- Winston Rekert: Rick Dion
- Mariette Hartley: Beth Pearson
- Philip Granger: Phil Lyons
- Phil Hayes: Bob Rand
- David Lewis: Frank Farr
- Molly Parker: Norma Sax
Terror flight of the Boeing 767 (Original Title: Falling from the Sky: Flight 174) is an American movie from 1995 was directed by Jorge Montesi, the screenplay was written by Lionel Chetwynd after the 1991 book Free Fall by William and Marilyn Hoffer. . The plot is based, in light of dramatic modification to the events of Air Canada flight 143 in July 1983, with the names of the pilots and the flight mechanic on board have not changed.
Action
In a prologue, two pilots will be confronted in a flight simulator with a new problem. You 're going down and complain about the program. But to her dismay, she learned that the simulation is based on actual events:
Summer 1982: the Canadian airline Canada World Airways receives the newly commissioned aircraft type Boeing 767 The machine is prepared by the ground staff on a domestic flight from Montreal to Edmonton. On board the flight 174 passengers and six crew go 63 members, including co-pilot Maurice Quintal, who first did not want to take the flight because of his terminally ill wife stayed at home. The flight attendant Lynn Brown, meanwhile, returned from maternity leave, while her colleague Florence Bisaillon hates flying and pursues the job only because of the good pay. Among the passengers in first class, there is a friendly, time-honored war veteran, while a few seats a snobbish businessman speaks instructions for his secretary in a voice recorder. In Economy Class, are among other things the young lovers Frank Farr and Norma Sax, which includes children or marriage wishes away from him, and the flight mechanic Rick Dion with his anxious wife Pearl and the common child.
When the aircraft has reached cruising altitude, the engines suddenly fail. Pilots must find that traveling by airplane type still inexperienced ground staff has calculated the amount of fuel wrong with the modern on-board computer. This is recognized in the Boeing 767 pounds and no longer according gallons but according to the metric system in kilograms and liters. The Traffic Machine will change to a 150 -ton glider and only with the ram-air turbine succeeds the pilot, flight mechanic supported by Dion, to keep the machine in the air. Gradually also notice the passengers that something is wrong and the machine tries an unscheduled landing at the airport of Winnipeg. However, the machine can not reach and Flight 174 attempted an emergency landing in Gimli ( Manitoba ) on an unused airport for sailing and small sport aircraft is the alternate airport. The exceptional situation leaves many of the occupants of the aircraft contemplate her life. The war veteran from the first class remembers his comrades who are not of them came during the Second World War with the life, and shows no fear. The businessman, who sacrificed his private life in favor of his company, dictated a message to his remaining at home wife. Flight attendant Lynn Brown tried to calm the frightened passengers and is reminded by the on-board baby painful to her little daughter.
When the machine is in the approach to the airfield, the cockpit crew to realize that there are currently taking place preparations for a local car race. The people on the ground, it is possible but in time to clear the runway and the Boeing 767 departs almost a father and his son. The hard landing does not hold up the nose gear and the front part of the machine is sliding on the concrete runway. An electrical fire in the cockpit breaks out, yet it manages all passengers and crew members mostly unharmed to leave the machine via the emergency slides.
In an epilogue reports on the lives of passengers and crew after the emergency landing. Copilot Quintal loses his terminally ill wife, the businessman on board sold his company to spend more time with his family and the couple Frank and Norma married a little later.
Reception
The film premiered on 20 February 1995 on ABC. Tom Shales of the Washington Post, ruled in his criticism, the film never would the voltage and emphasized the preference of the director Jorge Montesi for close-ups, as well as the acting skills of William Devane as captain. Writer Lionel Chetwynd mastered the genre of airplane disaster film and he had the ingenuity to make the characters seem real. It would succeed him to avoid clichés and maintain the tension, especially in the last half hour of the film.
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For the cockpit recordings 767 cockpit was filmed with behind the mounted blue screen in a real. The "real" captain of flight 174, Bob Pearson, the film has a Chameo appearance: He plays the pilot training, which explains the two flight captains at the beginning of the film when you exit the simulation shows that this incident has actually occurred.