A Thousand Heroes (1992)

Original title

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Directed by

Lamont Johnson

Genre

disaster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A true story about a passenger plane that loses control in the air and the pilots struggle to land it safely. The film follows the crew and emergency workers as they race to save people after the crash.

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What happens

A Thousand Heroes aka Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 is a 1992 American disaster drama television film directed by Lamont Johnson and written by Harve Bennett. The film stars Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, and James Coburn. It is based on a true story of United Airlines Flight 232, which crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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