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Name: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1983-11-18
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton

Original title: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

TV Movie
19831983
K-12K-12
1h 55m

4.8/10

990

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)

Sci-Fi Thriller

On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually le... Read allOn the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tilin... Read allOn the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore ti... Read all

4.8/10

990

Director
- Jerry Jameson
Writers
- Robert Malcolm Young(screenplay by)
- Peter R. Brooke(story by)
- Gene Warren(based on an idea by)
Stars

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Lee Majors in Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)

Director
- Jerry Jameson
Writers
- Robert Malcolm Young(screenplay by)
- Peter R. Brooke(story by)
- Gene Warren(based on an idea by) (uncredited)
All cast & crew
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On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore time) running out, the crew of the plane and the crew on the ground must figure out a way to return the plane and its passengers to safety. —Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>

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Taglines
- The first hypersonic flight turns into a terrifying nightmare...in space. [Australia Theatrical]
Genres
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
Certificate
- K-12
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
The movie is loosely based on the novel "Orbit" by Thomas H. Block, from 1982. In the novel, a hypersonic plane on a cruise from New York City to Sydney exceeds its cruise altitude, due to sabotage by a revenge-seeking company engineer.

Goofs
The footage of a rocket referred to as "Delta" is clearly that of the Saturn V moon rocket.

Quotes
Joe Pedowski: You're gonna try to fly this thing back?
Captain Cody Briggs: Joe, did you ever skip a flat rock across a lake and watch it skim and bounce along the surface? I wanna give reentry that kind of shot.
Joe Pedowski: I have skipped a few rocks on a few lakes in my time and I never saw yet one that didn't sink. It's one chance in a million.
Captain Cody Briggs: So was this accident.
Joe Pedowski: I am scared out of my mind being up here inside this plane and you want me to go outside?
[laughs nervously]
Joe Pedowski: oh no!
[pause]
Joe Pedowski: I'll need a wire stripper and some wire nuts... and a dry pair of pants when I get back.
Joe Pedowski: cannot unselect the speaker.

Crazy credits
While the credits list the character played by Herbert Jefferson Jr. as 'Kenny', at 1:31:57 Capt Cody Briggs (Lee Majors) addresses the character as 'Benny', in conjunction with the subtitles. At 1:32:07 the character, and the subtitles clearly note the characters name as 'Benny'

Top review

5/10

Silly disaster flick

"Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land" is a silly made-for-TV disaster flick that could have been titled "Airport '83: Trapped in Space". While the film is modestly entertaining at times, it's just too preposterous to believe. The plot: a hypersonic jet takes off for Australia and ends up stuck in outer space by accident. Director Jerry Jameson fared better with "Airport '77", and the cast (Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Tess Harper, Ray Milland, etc.) have done better work than this. Not a real bad movie but not a real good one either. This movie originally aired as a three hour movie on TV; the home video version was edited by about 30-40 minutes and retitled "Starflight One".

** (out of four)

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