On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades, resulting in 101 fatalities.On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades, resulting in 101 fatalities.On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades, resulting in 101 fatalities.
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- Trivia'Bob Crane' - actor from Hogan's Heroes - was originally cast in this movie, but was murdered before filming commenced.
- GoofsWhen the Flight Attendants arrive into New York on another aircraft the plane they disembark from has a pointed red livery - that of another L1011 operator at the time; TWA. Eastern had a two tone blue livery. Also as they are running late to catch 401 most of the Cabin Crew leave the incoming aircraft with the passengers leaving only two Flight Attendants on board - something that would have not been permitted as there would be no Flight Attendants guarding the remaining emergency exits during disembarkation (in case they need to evacuate the passengers)
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Carl Tobias: On any given day, Eastern Airlines launched 1400 flights, it had flown for 7 years without a passenger fatality.
- ConnectionsFollows The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)
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Upon technical issues aiming for to clarify the fateful Flight 401!!
In the seventies Hollywood was took by a wave of disasters movies, mainly focusing aircrafts due the successful AIRPORT in late sixties, however this one is based on real events of the flight 401 from New York to Miami, unfortunately the producers didn't resist to fit in those hideous cliches in the narrative, despite some were real indeed, said that all remains is a sort of documentary-drama concerning on technical issues to find out what really happened that led to crash the first high-tech Jumbo Boeing ever since.
The plot is split in two parts, firstly exposing the crash itself on everglades without many details, then came up the flashbacks on previous three days prior of the fateful flight, where enters William Shatner's character Carl Tobias as security inspector aiming for figures out what were the key reason that triggered the crash, on final sequence he reaches in a fair conclusion, reporting at cabin step by step all occurrences concerning the light bulb, landing gear and automatic pilot and so for, in other hand his superior wants close the case and all mismatches, including the veteran Pilot Captain Dunn (Eddie Albert) had a brain tumor that should be appointed as the main reason, which Tobias disagrees.
As low-budge TV-movie astounds us on the spot area where the many parts of the aircraft scattered all around on everglades, also based on reported facts told by the crew and survivors to enlighten the disaster, this notorious crash also had another version in same year THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401 lead by Ernest Borgnine, instead it had another approaching.
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First watch: 1985 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.
The plot is split in two parts, firstly exposing the crash itself on everglades without many details, then came up the flashbacks on previous three days prior of the fateful flight, where enters William Shatner's character Carl Tobias as security inspector aiming for figures out what were the key reason that triggered the crash, on final sequence he reaches in a fair conclusion, reporting at cabin step by step all occurrences concerning the light bulb, landing gear and automatic pilot and so for, in other hand his superior wants close the case and all mismatches, including the veteran Pilot Captain Dunn (Eddie Albert) had a brain tumor that should be appointed as the main reason, which Tobias disagrees.
As low-budge TV-movie astounds us on the spot area where the many parts of the aircraft scattered all around on everglades, also based on reported facts told by the crew and survivors to enlighten the disaster, this notorious crash also had another version in same year THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401 lead by Ernest Borgnine, instead it had another approaching.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 1985 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.
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