On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard. We were sans our wee one last night (thank you, Grandma!) so we usually try to watch at least a couple of movies. K13: SST Death Flight 606: The Creeping Terror 402: The Giant Gila Monster K12: Fugitive Alien K09: Phase IV 515: The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman K16: City on Fire. SST: Death Flight - Wikipedia. SST Death Flight (aka SST: Disaster in the Sky, Flight of the Maiden and Death Flight) is a 1. David Lowell Rich. Produced by ABC Circle Films, the film featured an all- star ensemble television cast. SST Death Flight capitalized on the popularity of 1. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the SST: Death Flight article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~. SST) aircraft that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a deadly strain of influenza. David Lowell Rich who went on to direct The Concorde .. Airport '7. 9, was the most successful director to exploit the disaster formula in both television and film. Dating back to The Horror at 3. Feet, a television movie made for CBS Television in 1.
The flight crew includes the navigator (Robert Ito), stewardess Mae (Tina Louise) and steward (Billy Crystal). The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. On board is Willy Basset (Burgess Meredith), the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon (Bert Convy), the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with . Hank Fairbanks (Doug Mc. Clure), an ex- pilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae. Harry Carter (Regis Philbin), a television broadcaster and a reporter (Ric Carrott) are at the airport terminal to cover the festivities. Passengers include Paul Whitley (Peter Graves), Bob Connors (John de Lancie), former sportscaster Lyle Kingman (Martin Milner) and his wife Nancy (Susan Strasberg). Unfortunately, a disgruntled employee (George Maharis), wanting to get back at Willy Basset, the designer of the airliner, sabotages the hydraulic system, causing an inflight massive leak of hydraulic fluid. Subsequent repair attempts by the crew cause an explosive decompression that breaks open a medical shipment of Senegal Flu, brought aboard by Dr. Ralph Therman (Brock Peters). Consequently, the aircraft is refused landing rights in Europe. The SST eventually tries to divert to Senegal (the only country with experience in dealing with the virus). However, there is not enough fuel and the pilots are forced to make an emergency landing in a mountain pass. Some of the passengers are killed, but most survive. The principal cast was listed in alphabetical order: Production. During filming, the production was called Flight of the Maiden. A major historical error was in depicting an American SST as the first of its kind. The aviation sequences utilized a scale model of what was basically a Concorde lookalike with Boeing 7. Other shots were completed using a mock- up of a Lockheed L- 2. Americans were still pursuing their own SST programs. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where various terminals, runways, boarding areas and cargo loading bays were featured. The film was lampooned in 1. KTMA broadcast version of Mystery Science Theater 3. Callaway 2. 01. 3, p. Kennedy International Airport. Retrieved: December 8, 2. Retrieved: December 8, 2. Retrieved: December 7, 2. Retrieved: December 7, 2. Di. Mucci, Bob. Retrieved: December 8, 2. Retrieved: December 7, 2. Erickson, Hal. Retrieved: December 8, 2. Bibliography. Callaway, Tim. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 8.
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