Hi, all,
I have a very random "what was that movie?" question.
At the Pole, there is almost always some movie or other playing in the movie lounge, so I saw the second-half only of quite a lot of movies. One day I watched the last 20 minutes or so of some movie about air traffic controllers. The last 20 minutes were pretty good, and I'm interested in digging it up on Netflix if possible.
From what I remember of the wardrobe and hair, I would say it was early 80's but I can't be sure. No famous actors or actresses that I recognized. What I remember of the plot... well, I only saw the climactic ending in which a big airliner had some kind of total electrical failure and our brave band of ATC protagonists had to bring the crippled plane in safely. They argue over how to do this... "They can only turn left, we have to bring them over <whatever>" "Dammit, no, that'll take them right over downtown!" ...this kind of thing. I remember one of our heros giving a sort of "Look, I know I'm a screw-up, but you're just going to have to trust me!" speech, and all ends well. (If I'd seen the beginning of the movie, it would probably make more sense; some "troubled soul" backplot I'm sure.)
This was several years ago, PPPL (pre-PPL), so I didn't notice any flight-related details. Except that the pilots were very calm in the midst of their multiple failures.
Sound familiar to anyone?
--Kath
I have a very random "what was that movie?" question.
At the Pole, there is almost always some movie or other playing in the movie lounge, so I saw the second-half only of quite a lot of movies. One day I watched the last 20 minutes or so of some movie about air traffic controllers. The last 20 minutes were pretty good, and I'm interested in digging it up on Netflix if possible.
From what I remember of the wardrobe and hair, I would say it was early 80's but I can't be sure. No famous actors or actresses that I recognized. What I remember of the plot... well, I only saw the climactic ending in which a big airliner had some kind of total electrical failure and our brave band of ATC protagonists had to bring the crippled plane in safely. They argue over how to do this... "They can only turn left, we have to bring them over <whatever>" "Dammit, no, that'll take them right over downtown!" ...this kind of thing. I remember one of our heros giving a sort of "Look, I know I'm a screw-up, but you're just going to have to trust me!" speech, and all ends well. (If I'd seen the beginning of the movie, it would probably make more sense; some "troubled soul" backplot I'm sure.)
This was several years ago, PPPL (pre-PPL), so I didn't notice any flight-related details. Except that the pilots were very calm in the midst of their multiple failures.
Sound familiar to anyone?
--Kath
