Skyjacked (film)

Skyjacked is a 1972 disaster film, directed by John Guillermin. The film stars Charlton Heston, James Brolin, and Yvette Mimieux, along with an ensemble cast primarily playing the roles of passengers and crew aboard an airliner. Skyjacked is based on the David Harper novel, Hijacked.

During a routine flight to Minneapolis, a passenger Susan Dey aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written on the mirror of one of the firstclass bathrooms. A second threat is soon found left on a napkin in a galley. Captain Hank OHara Charlton Heston takes the cryptic threats seriously and follows the instructions Bomb on plane divert to Anchorage Alaska. No Joke, No Tricks. Deathby changing course for Alaska. To avoid an explosive decompression if a bomb goes off, he flies at lower altitude, increasing fuel consumption.The weather at Anchorage is so poor, a United States Air Force groundcontrolled approach specialist Claude Akins is called in. His radar shows a small aircraft with radio failure that is approaching the same runway, but Flight 502 has too little fuel to go around. OHara sees the other aircraft at the last moment and manages to avoid a collision and land safely. ........

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