Falling from the Sky: Flight 174
Falling from the Sky Flight 174 also known as Freefall Flight 174 is a 1995 madefortelevision film based on the reallife events of Air Canada Flight 143, nicknamed the Gimli Glider, starring William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack and Mariette Hartley. Set in 1983, the film follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, from the preparations for departure to the emergency landing on an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between.
A few years earlier, on July 23, 1983, at Dorval Airport in Montreal, the ground crew of Canada World Airways struggles to convert gallons into liters and pounds into kilograms, as they prepare to refuel a brandnew Boeing 767 bound for Edmonton. This is the first aircraft in the fleet to use the metric system and they are about to make a terrible conversion mistake. Meanwhile, Beth Pearson Mariette Hartley drives her husband, Captain Robert Pearson William Devane, to the airport, unusually anxious about hosting her inlaws later that day. Elsewhere in Montral, First Officer Maurice Quintal Scott Hylands reluctantly agrees to cover for an injured colleague, leaving behind his sick wife.The two airmen feel uneasy about their 767 having an inoperative fuel gauge, but are somewhat reassured to see the ground crew measuring the quantity of fuel in the tanks 20,345kg, or so they believe, enough to take them to Vancouver. Their Flight Management Computer will constantly indicate the quantity on board. After a delay, the passengers board flight 174, including Rick Dion Winston Rekert, the airlines chief mechanic, as well as his wife and threeyearold boy. ........
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