Miracle Landing (Movie review)

The disaster that occurred on April 28, 1988 is quite memorable. An Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 lost an 18 ft. section of its fuselage at 24,000 feet, due to metal fatigue. Miraculously, only one occupant, a flight attendant, perished during the sudden decompression.

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (Movie review)

Air disasters can be very painful for the friends and relatives of the victims, particularly for the wife of a pilot who is quickly blamed for the disaster and the casualties. This is the subject of this made-for-TV movie, also known as Aftermath.

Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (Movie review)

Imagine you've been flying for over 14 hours non-stop over the Pacific Ocean. You see nothing but the ocean around you. You try to contact your destination airport but get no answer. You then realize you are lost in the middle of nowhere... on a Cessna airplane.

Airline TV commercials

Since its creation in 1998, airodyssey.net has featured a collection of airline television commercials. Here are 30 of my favourite ones over the years.

Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (Movie review)

If I say "fuel starvation", you might think it would be unlikely on a commercial aircraft in a developed country. But what if I told you that this happened on a state-of-the-art Boeing 767 on a Canadian airline in 1983? This is the story depicted in Falling from the Sky: Flight 174

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (Movie review)

As part of my series of reviews on movies based on true air disasters, this is Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac, also known as Florida Flight 90 or simply Flight No. 90, a movie about the crash of an Air Florida jet near the 14th Street Bridge near Washington National Airport on January 13, 1982

Blackout Effect (Movie review)

A mid-air collision is every air traffic controller’s nightmare. And if it happens, the controller may be the first person to be blamed. This is what Blackout Effect is all about. It is a made-for-TV movie first aired on NBC in January 1998 as a “World Premiere Movie”