Mayday at 40,000 Feet poster

Movie · 1977

Mayday at 40,000 Feet

Released 29 April 1977 More from 1977 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Tom Drake
as Harry Jensen
58
William Bryant
as Kent
53
Jane Powell
as Kitty Douglass
48
David Janssen
as Capt. Pete Douglass
46
Christopher George
as Stan Burkhart
46
Hari Rhodes
as Belson
45
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
13years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Tom Drake — oldest on the call sheet
45Hari Rhodes — youngest billed
49average age of the credited cast
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