![]() ![]() Unfortunately, a disgruntled employee ( George Maharis), wanting to get back at Willy Basset, the designer of the airliner, sabotages the hydraulic system, causing an inflight massive leak of hydraulic fluid. Harry Carter ( Regis Philbin), a television broadcaster and a reporter ( Ric Carrott) are at the airport terminal to cover the festivities. Other passengers include Paul Whitley ( Peter Graves), Bob Connors ( John de Lancie), former sportscaster Lyle Kingman ( Martin Milner) and his wife Nancy ( Susan Strasberg). Hank Fairbanks ( Doug McClure), an ex-pilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae. On board is Willy Basset ( Burgess Meredith), the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon ( Bert Convy), the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with "Miss SST" Angela Garland ( Misty Rowe), the model who is the public face of the new aircraft. The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. The flight crew includes the flight engineer ( Robert Ito), stewardess Mae ( Tina Louise) and steward ( Billy Crystal). ![]() On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh ( Robert Reed) is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. Joseph and Meyer Dolinsky from a story by Guerdon Trueblood.ĭavid Lowell Rich also directed the airplane disaster films The Horror at 37,000 Feet and The Concorde. It follows a crippled supersonic transport (SST) that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a deadly strain of influenza. The film stars an ensemble cast including Barbara Anderson, Bert Convy, Peter Graves, Lorne Greene, Season Hubley, Tina Louise, George Maharis, Doug McClure, Burgess Meredith, Martin Milner, Brock Peters, Robert Reed, and Susan Strasberg. SST: Death Flight is a 1977 American disaster television film directed by David Lowell Rich.
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