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Airport 1975 (1974)

Airport 1975 poster
Directed by
Jack Smight
Genre
action film, disaster film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 298 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A small plane crashes into a Boeing 747, killing two pilots and blinding the captain. With no one else qualified to land the plane, the crew and passengers must find a way to survive.

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What happens

Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American disaster film, and the second installment in the Airport film series. It is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, and from a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Olson, Ed Nelson, Myrna Loy, Augusta Summerland, Helen Reddy in her film debut, and Gloria Swanson in her final film. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit, causing the fatalities of the First Officer and Flight Engineer and the blinding of the Captain, leaving no one aboard qualified to take the controls. Airport 1975 was released by Universal Pictures on October 18, 1974. Despite generally poor reviews, the film was a commercial success, becoming the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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