Lloyd Bridges credited as playing...
Steve McCroskey
- Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this?
- [Hands him the weather briefing]
- Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...
- Steve McCroskey: [56:14] Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
- Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
- Steve McCroskey: [1:16:42] Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
- Steve McCroskey: [1:03:35] Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
- [reading newspaper headlines]
- Rex Kramer: Passengers certain to die!
- Steve McCroskey: Airline negligent.
- Johnny: There's a sale at Penney's!
- Ted Striker: [53:49] Mayday! Mayday!
- Steve McCroskey: What the heck is that?
- Johnny: Why, that's the Russian New Year. We can have a parade and serve hot hors d'oeuvres...
- Rex Kramer: Steve, I want every light you can get poured onto that field.
- Steve McCroskey: Bein' done right now.
- [On the runway, a truck dumps a full load of lamps onto the ground]
- Steve McCroskey: Gunderson, check the Radar Range. Anything yet?
- Gunderson: [gets up and opens the door of the Radar Range microwave, which is roasting a turkey] About two more minutes, chief.
- Steve McCroskey: Two more minutes? They could be miles off course!
- Rex Kramer: That's impossible. They're on instruments!
- [cuts to the cockpit, where Striker, Elaine, Randy and Rumack are all playing musical instruments]
- Steve McCroskey: [to Mrs. Oveur] Now your husband and the others are alive, but unconscious.
- Johnny: Just like Gerald Ford.
- Steve McCroskey: [seeing airplane from tower] It's coming right at us!
- [he then jumps out of a window]
- Elaine Dickinson: Oh, my God! The automatic pilot! It's deflating!
- Steve McCroskey: Now, Elaine, don't panic. On the belt line of the automatic pilot there is a hollow tube. Now that is the manual inflation nozzle. Pull it out - and blow on it.
- Steve McCroskey: I need the best man on this. Someone who knows that plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.
- Johnny: How about Mister Rogers?
- Steve McCroskey: [talking to Rex Kramer] Ease off, Rex. He hasn't flown for years; it's not his fault. It could happen to any pilot.
- Johnny: It happened to Barbara Stanwyck.
- Steve McCroskey: Can't push him too hard; he might break. You gotta remember who you're dealing with.
- Johnny: Nick! Heath! Jared! There's a fire in the barn!