Product Details

• Actors: Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland, Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Gail Strickland
• Directors: Jerry Jameson
• Producers: Starflight One ( Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land ) ( Airport 85 ), Starflight One, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, Airport 85
• Format: Import, PAL
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: EuroCine Films
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0019D6H3G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,695 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The fictional story of the first 'hypersonic' commercial passenger plane, which can make the flight from New York to London in a mere four hours. On the maiden flight of this plane, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore time) running out, the crew of the plane and the crew on the ground must figure out a way to return the plane and it's passengers to safety.; ...Starflight One ( Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land ) ( Airport 85 )

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Airplane Disaster Movie meets the Space Age, July 19, 2007

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Jim Liftin "Jim" (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Starflight One (VHS Tape)

This movie may or may not have been inspiration for the 1982 parody AIRPLANE! II -- THE SEQUEL, but it does stand out as unique of the genre of Airplane Disaster movies. Man has thought of ways to shorten flying time of great distances throughout the century. First it was the jet; then it was the SST; so, it's only natural for the next idea to be for the airline industry to collaborate with NASA to create an aircraft that could skim our atmosphere as one would skim a stone over water. So, this Airplane Disaster movie has a Sci-Fi flavor to it.

TV-stars Hal Linden of BARNEY MILLER fame and Lee Majors head this all-star cast of a flight crippled by debris from a NASA "disaster" causing it to fly higher than intended and its fuel to burn out, leaving it in orbit above the earth. Don't miss this one!