Terror in the Sky
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Terror in the Sky | |
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Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
Written by | Arthur Hailey (novel) Elinor Karpf |
Starring | Doug McClure Lois Nettleton |
Release date(s) | 1971 |
Running time | 74 min. |
Country | U.S.A. |
Language | English |
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Terror in the Sky is a 1971 television movie based on Arthur Hailey's book, Runway Zero-Eight. It stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and Keenan Wynn. Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest (Winnipeg in the book) to Seattle (Vancouver in the book) get sick after eating the fish entree. Both pilots also ate fish. A man who hasn't flown since the war (helicopters in the movie, single-engine planes in the book) is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes a rotten, but survivable landing. The theme was later used in Airplane!.