It's watchable but terrible script, lots of bad acting and just laughable at the end. An aircraft emergency landing and couples hugging and holding young kids in front of them. I guess it'd make for a soft impact for the adult. Passengers still out of their seats on that long final approach for an emergency landing? Silly. Maybe emergency procedures have improved, I hope so. But even in 1995 they were better than that.
Right from the start when the guys fuelling the aircraft were demonstrating their incompetence I thought this looks very stupid. And it was.
I fly and how that aircraft continued to glide on and on I'll never know. The glide ratio of a jumbo jet is 18 to 1 but even at 1000 feet and still tavelling at 150 - 200 konts it took forever to get down. Oh and the shoreline when they were looking for the small airstrip didn't change view at all? I guess it was made in 1995. I liked the sideslipping to slow the descent, but did they forget the flaps? Doh.
Oh and the comms, ATC and pilot, all a bit poor. Never mind. Amazon always has the rubbish B films. It killed an hour or two of lockdown anyway.
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174
(1995 TV Movie)
No wonder William Devane is making adverts now selling gold coins on TV
26 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers