In the seventies Hollywood was took by a wave of disasters movies, mainly focusing aircrafts due the successful AIRPORT in late sixties, however this one is based on real events of the flight 401 from New York to Miami, unfortunately the producers didn't resist to fit in those hideous cliches in the narrative, despite some were real indeed, said that all remains is a sort of documentary-drama concerning on technical issues to find out what really happened that led to crash the first high-tech Jumbo Boeing ever since.
The plot is split in two parts, firstly exposing the crash itself on everglades without many details, then came up the flashbacks on previous three days prior of the fateful flight, where enters William Shatner's character Carl Tobias as security inspector aiming for figures out what were the key reason that triggered the crash, on final sequence he reaches in a fair conclusion, reporting at cabin step by step all occurrences concerning the light bulb, landing gear and automatic pilot and so for, in other hand his superior wants close the case and all mismatches, including the veteran Pilot Captain Dunn (Eddie Albert) had a brain tumor that should be appointed as the main reason, which Tobias disagrees.
As low-budge TV-movie astounds us on the spot area where the many parts of the aircraft scattered all around on everglades, also based on reported facts told by the crew and survivors to enlighten the disaster, this notorious crash also had another version in same year THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401 lead by Ernest Borgnine, instead it had another approaching.
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First watch: 1985 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.
