Final Descent (1997) (TV)

Director:

Mike Robe

Writers (WGA):

Robert P. Davis (book)
Roger Young (teleplay)

Release Date:

12 October 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position...

Plot Keywords:

Mid Air | Disaster | Aviation | Based On Book

Cast

Robert Urich	...	Capt. Glen (Lucky) Singer
Annette O'Toole	...	Connie Phipps
John de Lancie	...	Capt. George W. Bouchard
Jim Byrnes	...	Duke Houston
Ken Pogue	...	Ian Pryce
Blu Mankuma	...	Jack Eberly
Tom McBeath	...	Pilot of Private Plane N9478C
Kevin McNulty	...	Henry Gibbons
Stephen E. Miller	...	Lt. Col. Frank O'Hearn
Gwynyth Walsh	...	Patty
Lorraine Landry	...	Jill Zimmer
Carrie Cain-Sparks	...	Crystal Dupree (as Carrie Cain Sparks)
Aaron Joseph	...	Adam Dupree
Louva Meloche	...	Tasha
Cody Serpa	...	Freddie

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:PG | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Columbia TriStar Television

Trivia:

The aircraft is a Gallant 270, made by Gallant Aviation, a fictitious company; probably named after producer Michael O. Gallant.

Goofs:

Factual errors: If '48C had taken off from 9L as it was supposed to, it would be on almost the same course, only displaced to the left by the distance between the runways. If the actual position of '48C following takeoff from 9R created a collision course with Quest 19, then the intended position would still have created a dangerous close approach. Therefore no such order to turn would have been given.

Quotes:

Glen "Lucky" Singer: I don't want to hear any more about the Internet. I HATE the Internet.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Final Run (1999) (TV)

Surely unrealistic, but pretty funny Tv-movie

This movie is not much realistic, sure. It is more realistic than airport 79 (that movie where a Concorde is far more manouverable than a military jetplane!), but it is obvious... Indeed, I have to say that this Tv-movie is full of nice ideas in the plot, movie ideas, OK, but also funny for this reason. So, if you like the catastrophic genre, take a look at this very economic movie. But don't expect a realistic movie: no one has realized, up today, a really realistic movie about the airplanes.