True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Philip Maurice Hayes
- Bob Rand
- (as Philip Hayes)
David James Lewis
- Frank Farr
- (as David Lewis)
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- TriviaAt the start, when the two pilots exit the simulator, they complain to the simulator examiner about "a dumb set of scenarios" and "an impossible set of conditions, who ever dreamed that up". The examiner responds with "It isn't a dream, it happened". He would know, he is the real life Bob Pearson, the actual captain of the Gimli Glider.
- GoofsWhen the aircraft is shown taking off, it is a 737-200, as the engines are long and thin, whereas a 767 has wider engines
- Quotes
[after the two pilots crash in the simulator]
Simulator pilot: Is this some kind of joke? There's no way to land that aircraft the way you guys got it programmed!
Simulator co-pilot: Dumb scenario if you ask me! Impossible set of conditions! Who ever dreamed that up?
Inspector: It isn't a dream. It happened.
- Crazy creditsBob Pearson, the real pilot of the "Gimli Glider" (the story that inspired this film), features as the Examiner in the simulator footage at the beginning of the film.
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Bloopers from the Sky
This movie is a docudrama based on an actual event, so there's little excuse for criticizing the storyline, particularly since the acting was decent. However, the directing and casting were less than perfect.
For starters, the event takes place on a Canadian airliner on it's way to Winnipeg. The principle Winnipeg air traffic controller is Al Williams, played by Nicholas Turturro who is from Queens, New York. Nick as the presumably Canadian air traffic controller didn't leave his thick New York accent back home when he went to Winnipeg to speak his lines, and the director apparently did not believe native English-speaking viewers would notice it.
Among commercial airline pilots, the captain is typically considerably older than the first officer (co-pilot), and normally noticeably so. However, on this particular version of Flight 174, the first officer looked older than the captain, and the actors IMDb bios show only a three-year age difference between them.
Towards the latter part of the story, the pilots start preparing for an emergency landing near Winnipeg. However, in every cockpit scene during that segment, the view of the outside terrain from the cockpit windows is always the same as if the plane was in suspended celestial animation.
But again, maybe the director thought we wouldn't notice.
For starters, the event takes place on a Canadian airliner on it's way to Winnipeg. The principle Winnipeg air traffic controller is Al Williams, played by Nicholas Turturro who is from Queens, New York. Nick as the presumably Canadian air traffic controller didn't leave his thick New York accent back home when he went to Winnipeg to speak his lines, and the director apparently did not believe native English-speaking viewers would notice it.
Among commercial airline pilots, the captain is typically considerably older than the first officer (co-pilot), and normally noticeably so. However, on this particular version of Flight 174, the first officer looked older than the captain, and the actors IMDb bios show only a three-year age difference between them.
Towards the latter part of the story, the pilots start preparing for an emergency landing near Winnipeg. However, in every cockpit scene during that segment, the view of the outside terrain from the cockpit windows is always the same as if the plane was in suspended celestial animation.
But again, maybe the director thought we wouldn't notice.
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- Sep 21, 1999
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- Freefall: Flight 174
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- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada(exterior scenes)
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What was the official certification given to Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995) in France?
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