Mercy Mission - the Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)

Original title

Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771

Directed by

Roger Young

Genre

drama, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pilot loses his way over the Pacific Ocean in a small plane. An airline pilot and his crew coordinate a risky rescue mission to guide him to safety.

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What happens

Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (also known as Flight from Hell) is a 1993 TV movie based on the real-life rescue of the pilot of a Cessna 188. It stars Scott Bakula as Jay Perkins, the pilot of Cessna 30771, and Robert Loggia as Gordon Vette, the Air New Zealand flight 308 pilot who rescues him. Although the film premiered on American television, it was filmed on location in Queensland, Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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