**SOME SPOILERS** Taking off from the Seattle Airport Quest Flight #19 to Dallas Texas is almost immediately hit by a runaway private aircraft, N9478C, that strayed off course on the runway. Having the jumbo jets guidance system damaged in the collision the plane is unable to land but is forced to gain altitude with it's nosecone unable to be steered downward by the pilot and his fiancée and and co-pilot Capt. Glen "Lucky" Singer & Connie Phipps, Robert Urich & Annette O'Toole. It's now up to both Lucky and Connie together with Capt. Bouchard, John De Lancie, who's on the flight grading the flight Captain Lucky Singer to somehow get Flight #19 safely back down to earth with it's 219 passengers and crew. It would take all the luck, as well as a number of Canadian oil riggers on-board, that Lucky has to get the plane to change course. From reaching an altitude of over 30,000 feet and tearing apart and exploding in mid-air, to successfully land back at the Seattle Airport more or less intact with everyone on the plane safe. What Capt. Lucky Singer would have to do to achieve this almost impossible feat is to do it with his own smarts and skills and not with the planes state-of-the-art computer system that was rendered useless by the in-air plane to plane collision.
Better then you would expect TV disaster movie with most of the story concentrating around Capt. Singer and Connie as well as the USAF getting the passenger plane. To turn the plane south and land safely and keeping the usual sides stories, like the personal lives and problems of the passengers and their families, to a minimum making the very complicated effort in the film of shifting the weight of the plane via thousands of gallons of water pumped into the planes wheel section. In order to get it to turn it's nosecone down and thus be able to be landed by Captain's Singer & Boucard and co-pilot Phipps.
Tension packed and heart-stopping action as Lucky Singer & Co. try to get the disabled plane to land. Where at the same time Quest's CEO Ian Pryce, Ken Pogue, and the man who's the company's top engineer Henry Gibbons, Kevin McNuttly, looking at the bottom line and relying on facts figures try to trick the common sense thinking Capt. Singer into sacrifice some 40 passengers, the old the sick and the very young, by sticking them in the back of the plane. Where the oxygen will be the scarcest.
I took not Capt. Singer or his co-pilot Connie Phipps to realize what the devious Pryce & Gibbons were trying to pull and then have the unsuspecting Lucky Singer take the blame, and life-long guilt in the the purposeful death of 40 human beings. It was non-other then company man and all around butt-kisser Capt. Bouchard who got a sudden change of heart when he saw just how right Singer was. In relying on his god-given and flight experienced instincts and alerted Capt. Singer of his boss' cold-blooded plan.
Powerhouse finish as Capt. Lucky Singer threw the passenger liner into full throttle as it headed downwards towards Seattle Airport. With Lucky having the wheel-section opening up and the thousands of gallons of water gushing out giving the airplane just the right equilibrium to successfully land. While at the same time, at the split second of landing, having it's nosecone turn upward in order to prevent it from smashing head, or nose, first into the tarmac and exploding with everyone on-board.
Better then you would expect TV disaster movie with most of the story concentrating around Capt. Singer and Connie as well as the USAF getting the passenger plane. To turn the plane south and land safely and keeping the usual sides stories, like the personal lives and problems of the passengers and their families, to a minimum making the very complicated effort in the film of shifting the weight of the plane via thousands of gallons of water pumped into the planes wheel section. In order to get it to turn it's nosecone down and thus be able to be landed by Captain's Singer & Boucard and co-pilot Phipps.
Tension packed and heart-stopping action as Lucky Singer & Co. try to get the disabled plane to land. Where at the same time Quest's CEO Ian Pryce, Ken Pogue, and the man who's the company's top engineer Henry Gibbons, Kevin McNuttly, looking at the bottom line and relying on facts figures try to trick the common sense thinking Capt. Singer into sacrifice some 40 passengers, the old the sick and the very young, by sticking them in the back of the plane. Where the oxygen will be the scarcest.
I took not Capt. Singer or his co-pilot Connie Phipps to realize what the devious Pryce & Gibbons were trying to pull and then have the unsuspecting Lucky Singer take the blame, and life-long guilt in the the purposeful death of 40 human beings. It was non-other then company man and all around butt-kisser Capt. Bouchard who got a sudden change of heart when he saw just how right Singer was. In relying on his god-given and flight experienced instincts and alerted Capt. Singer of his boss' cold-blooded plan.
Powerhouse finish as Capt. Lucky Singer threw the passenger liner into full throttle as it headed downwards towards Seattle Airport. With Lucky having the wheel-section opening up and the thousands of gallons of water gushing out giving the airplane just the right equilibrium to successfully land. While at the same time, at the split second of landing, having it's nosecone turn upward in order to prevent it from smashing head, or nose, first into the tarmac and exploding with everyone on-board.