Mayday at 40,000 Feet!
Mayday at 40,000 Feet aka Panic in the Open Sky and Mayday 40,000ft is a 1976 American madefortelevision drama film, directed by Robert Butler. The film stars David Janssen, Don Meredith and Christopher George, along with an allstar cast primarily playing the roles of passengers and crew aboard an airliner in crisis.
During a major snow storm, Transcon Airways Flight 602, Boeing 727 airliner piloted by Captain Pete Douglas David Janssen, First Officer Stan Burkhart Christopher George and Second Officer Mike Fuller Don Meredith on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, makes a scheduled stop in Salt Lake City. Greco Marjoe Gortner, a twotime killer in the custody of Sam Riese, a Federal Marshal Broderick Crawford comes aboard. Among the passengers are Burkharts girlfriend, nurse Susan McKenzie Margaret Blye and Joseph Mannheim Ray Milland a disillusioned and possibly disgraced medical doctor drowning his problems with scotch. Captain Douglas has a family emergency that is making him anxious to return home as soon as possible.After leaving Salt Lake City, the Federal Marshal suffers a fatal heart attack and his prisoner gets his gun. In the ensuing scuffle, Greco fires wildly, wounding the pilot and Susan McKenzie, as well as puncturing the hydraulic oil lines controlling all major systems on the airliner, including flaps and landing gear. Fuller tackles Greco and knocks him unconscious, disarming him and putting one of the passengers, an Army officer, in charge of the prisoner. While the remaining flight crew take charge of the cockpit, head flight attendant Terry Dunlap Shani Wallis with flight attendants Cathy Armello Lynda Day George and Cindy Jensen Christopher Norris, tend to the passengers. ........
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