The Doomsday Flight (1966) on Netflix
Approved19661h 40mCrimeThriller
A DC-8 takes off from Los Angeles with a bomb hidden in its cabin. A caller demands $100,000 for information, and Captain Anderson's crew searches the aircraft while the plane stays aloft.
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Plot summary
A Douglas DC-8 leaves Los Angeles for New York. Shortly after it is airborne, the airline gets a call: a bomb is hidden in the cabin, and $100,000 in small bills is demanded for information about it. The caller once worked as an engineer in aviation. Chief Pilot Bob Shea warns the flight crew, and Captain Anderson circles near Las Vegas while the crew searches the cabin. Crew members open hand luggage and tear into panels in the cabin and cockpit without finding anything, and the passengers learn of the emergency. The bomb carries an aneroid switch that responds to altitude and will detonate when the aircraft descends. The caller telephones again to arrange payment of the ransom.
Cast
- Robert Pickeringas Willoughby
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Doomsday Flight (1966)
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- In 1971 the Federal Aviation Administration urged American television stations not to air the film, on the basis that it could inspire other unstable individuals to commit similar acts to the villain's.
- On NBC, The Doomsday Flight was the most watched made-for-TV movie up to that time, with a Nielsen rating of 27.5 and a 48% share, until Heidi surpassed it in 1968.
- The Doomsday Flight was the first TV movie for John Saxon and the first American television film for Michael Sarrazin, who was then under contract to Universal.
