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Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995) (TV)
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20 February 1995 (USA)
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True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield. full summary | add synopsis
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Smoking or non-smoking?
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Devane | ... | Capt. Bob Pearson | |
| Scott Hylands | ... | Maurice Quintal | |
| Shelley Hack | ... | Lynn Brown | |
| Kevin McNulty | ... | Larry Roberts | |
| Gwynyth Walsh | ... | Pearl Dion | |
| Gloria Carlin | ... | Meg | |
| Suzy Joachim | ... | Florence Bisaillon | |
| Nicholas Turturro | ... | Al Williams | |
| Winston Rekert | ... | Rick Dion | |
| Mariette Hartley | ... | Beth Pearson | |
| Philip Granger | ... | Phil Lyons | |
| Phil Hayes | ... | Bob Rand (as Philip Hayes) | |
| David Lewis | ... | Frank Farr | |
| Sheelah Megill | ... | Mrs. Hebert | |
| John Novak | ... | Len Daniels |
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USA:93 min
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In real life Pearson did not return to the smoky cockpit alone, requiring Quintal and Dion to rescue him. He and Quintal returned together, did what they could, and left the airplane by the forward slide.
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Factual errors: Since the former Gimli air base was still in use by small planes, detailed information about it should have been (and was, in the actual event - see trivia entry) available at the Winnipeg airport.
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Rick Dion:
You don't want the oxygen masks popping out. It might panic the passengers.
Capt. Bob Pearson: "Might panic"? Heh. I'm surprised they're not back there knitting their own parachutes right now.
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Capt. Bob Pearson: "Might panic"? Heh. I'm surprised they're not back there knitting their own parachutes right now.
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This is a surprisingly gripping made-for-TV movie for two reasons: (1) It's based on a true story so you're not guaranteed a happy "Hollywood" ending; you're compelled to sit on the edge of your seat to find out what eventually happens, and (2) Unlike the "Airport" movies that spend most of their time on the soap opera aspects of the passenger's lives, for the bulk of "Falling from the Sky," you're in the cockpit - sweating it out with the pilot (the excellent William Devane) and his crew attempting to keep aloft this jet airliner with no fuel. How did this ordinarily routine flight wind up in such peril? At the outset of the movie, we see the ground crew obviously having trouble with gallon-to-liter conversion. As we find out later, their math was a little off.