Today’s film is a drama with a scene that happens on December 23. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.
MERCY MISSION: THE RESCUE OF FLIGHT 771
Jay Parkins and his partner Frank are free wheeling seasonal crop dusters. Jay’s pregnant wife wants him to get a steady job. Jay and Frank take a job to fly two cropduster planes across the Pacific to Australia. On December 23, 1978 [12:13 to 18:40]they leave San Francisco, bound for Honolulu. Franks crashes on takeoff from Pago Pago, but escapes unharmed. Jay heads on to Norfolk Island, his next stop. Jay realizes after he doesn’t reach the island that he is off course and his automatic direction finder doesn’t work. Air traffic control contacts the only plane in the area, an Air New Zealand airliner piloted by Gordon Vette. After determining that Jay is to the west of them, he turns and flies directly at the airliner. After failing to make a contrail with the engines, Gordon dumps some fuel to make a contrail. Jay flies in a circle while the airliner flies on the edge of his VHF radio coverage zone. By comparing when the sun sets at his plane and at Auckland they zero in on his location. Gordon relays a conversation between Jay and Ellen. The passenger plane finds Jay and leads him into Auckland and in spite of a thunderstorm manages to bring him in for a safe landing.
Based on a true story.
The date is given in the film at 12:27
Producer – Derek Kananagh
Director – Roger Young
Screenwriter – George Rubino and Robert Benedetti
Runtime – 1 hour 35 minutes
Released – December 13, 1993
Starring –
Scott Bakula as Jay Parkins
Robert Loggia as Gordon Vette
Rebecca Rigg as Ellen
Alan Fletcher as Frank
Michael Bishop as First Officer Mann
Kit Taylor as Warren Banks
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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