Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174) is a 1995 television movie based on the story of Air Canada Flight 143 Known as Gimli Glider. It follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, set in 1983, from the preparations for departure to the crash landing in an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between. Unlike the novel Freefall (by William and Marilyn Hoffer), the airline and flight...
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Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174) is a 1995 television movie based on the story of Air Canada Flight 143 Known as Gimli Glider. It follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, set in 1983, from the preparations for departure to the crash landing in an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between. Unlike the novel Freefall (by William and Marilyn Hoffer), the airline and flight number were changed from Air Canada Flight 143 to Canada World Airways Flight 174.
The movie starts with two airline pilots experiencing a sudden loss of power in the two engines of their airliner due to a fuel pump failure, and crashing shortly afterwards. It is revealed that they were in fact in a flight simulator. In complete disbelief that such a scenario could ever happen in real life, they protest to the examiner (played by the actual Robert Pearson). He tells them that "It isn't a dream. It happened."
Flashback to a few years earlier,...
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