SST: Death Flight
SST Death Flight aka SST Disaster in the Sky, Flight of the Maiden and Death Flight is a 1977 madefortelevision film, directed by David Lowell Rich. Produced by ABC Circle Films, the film featured an allstar ensemble television cast. SST Death Flight capitalized on the popularity of 1970s aircraft disaster films, this time with a crippled supersonic transport SST aircraft that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a deadly strain of influenza.
On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh Robert Reed is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. The flight crew includes the navigator Robert Ito, stewardess Mae Tina Louise and steward Billy Crystal. The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. On board is Willy Basset Burgess Meredith, the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon Bert Convy, the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with Miss SST Angela Garland Misty Rowe, the model who is the public face of the new aircraft. Hank Fairbanks Doug McClure, an expilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae.Harry Carter Regis Philbin, a television broadcaster and a reporter Ric Carrott are on the flight to cover the festivities. Other passengers include Paul Whitley Peter Graves, Bob Connors John de Lancie, former sportscaster Lyle Kingman Martin Milner and his wife Nancy Susan Strasberg. ........
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