Final Descent
The transfer job to a DVD-R was excellent in both sound and viewing quality. A huge passenger plane, upon take-off is hit by a small aircraft merging from another runway and causes the plane to have damaged flaps. The plane can only ascend at full throttle. The Captain must figure a way to bring the nose of the plane down or it will fall apart at a high altitude and all passengers will be lost as the plane will fall to the ground. Robert Urich, the captain, with the help of the military, and the control tower, devises a plan to transfer thousands of gallons of water into the cockpit opening into the plane's lower holding area, in hopes that the additional weight will bring the nose down. Then, just before landing at the airport, the water will be drained out so the plane can make a crssh landing.
The problem is that Urich's girl friend and co-pilot, with the help of 3 technicians aboard, and a corporate airplane examiner who is a rival of Urich for a while, will have to put on heavy clothing transfered to the plane by a military plane, along with oxogen masks while the water is being transfered, and has to be done in 2 minutes or less. The co-pilot, played by Annette O-Toole will have to fly the plane without the clothing or the masks until Urich and the men can pull her away from the cockpit and put onto her the heavy clothing and mask before she freezes to death.
Just a super movie that I had originally on a faded recorded VHS tape. I had been waiting for this movie to be put on DVD for years. I was not disappointed.
The only criticsim I have is that the DVD does not have the feature of going to the "Scenes" or other extra features. This means that if one wants to go forward, one has to run the fast forward feature, or use the "Skip chapters" feature on the DVD player or remote. But, compared to the quality of the DISC and the movie, itself, this is a minor deficiency.
There have been many airplane disaster movies out there that were good; but this one ranks right up there, or in some cases, it is better. Get this one for your collection.
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