Crisis in Mid Air

Crisis in Midair is a 1979 US made for TV movie. Unlike other airport disaster movies popular in the 1970s, it concentrates on the stresses at Air Traffic Control. The film was shot partially on location at the LA Terminal AreaApproach Radar Control TRACON.

Nick, an LA Air Traffic Controller, in his late 50s, feels trapped in his job. The stress is affecting his mental and physical health. He is driven to prove himself despite his years. His nightmare turns real as he experiences an accident similar to his dream. After the incident, the civilian flight passengers are all dead, and the military pilot has bailed out, survived, and is lying during the inquiry. As a final hearing approaches, Nicks career is in danger. He smokes and drinks coffee incessantly, and begins to take pills to calm his nerves.There follows a confrontation with the authorities employee charged with the inquiry who is trying to frame him believing the accident was the Air Traffic Controls mistake but Nick replies back to him that it is because this employee was a previously rejected Controller of the service that he tries to retaliate picking on him. ........

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