Thought I'd take a chance and buy it from Warner Archives in the hope
it would be one of those TV movie gems I missed in the 70's. I like air
disaster flicks and TV has a done a few good ones. Also like David
Janssen and the director Robert Butler looked promising. But Mayday at
40,000 feet should have been pushed out of a plane at 40,000 feet.
I can't help but think that the folks who made the movie "Airplane" mined this one for tropes.
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I heard it was a spoof they created after the brothers accidentally taped this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051221/referencep
They had taped one of the midnight movies looking for commercials to spoof.
I've seen it, it would be hilarious even without knowing what it led too.
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I found this film to be a good deal of campy fun. Janssen was properly stalwart as the tough, but troubled captain of the plane.
I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find