I'm curious why all this publicity came up at the same time for something
that happened in 1983. Movie promotion?
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> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Alan Dahl
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:08 AM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Air Canada Flight 174
>
>
> At 11:26 PM 06/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >The movie of the unfortunate incident was just on the local TV station
> >today. They never announced the title, and I can't find the first post.
> >What is the name of the movie again? Shelly Hack was the flight
> >attendant IINM. The guy that always plays a Kennedy in movies was the
> >pilot.
>
> The movie was "Falling from the Sky: Flight 174" also known as "Freeall:
> Flight 174" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113018). William Devane played the
> pilot. They changed the name and flight number, it was really Air Canada
> flight #141.
>
> >Of course the movie makers had to add a child in peril. There was a kid
> >was riding his bike down the runway, one of the competitors had to run
> >after him yelling to get off. OF course the kid, being the brat that he
> >was wouldn't listen.
>
> Believe it or not there really _was_ a boy bicyling on the
> runway. From the
> IMDB trivia section on the movie:
>
> >>
> In real life the pilots were not told to use the left runway -- since only
> the right runway was in use (by aircraft), it was considered a one-runway
> airport, nobody thought to advise them, and they simply guessed wrong. But
> they didn't have to dodge cars, which happened to already have been parked
> at the edge of the runway. There really was a boy bicycling on the runway,
> though.
> <<
>
> - Alan Dahl
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