Movie · 1978
The Crash of Flight 401
“The nerve-shattering experience of a lifetime. More astonishing because it actually happened.”
Released 29 October 1978 95 min Drama / TV Movie More from 1978 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
FR·01
How old were they?
Artie Shaw
as Elderly Passenger
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as Larry Cross
Joe Silver
as Alvin Jessop
Shirley O'Hara
C. Lindsay Workman
as Dr. Baylor
Bob Hastings
Joyce Jameson
as Sophie Cross
George Maharis
as Evan Walsh
Ed Nelson
as Philip Mulwray
William Shatner
as Carl Tobias
Brett Halsey
as Standish
Lane Smith
Lorraine Gary
as Emily Mulwray
Christopher Connelly
as Mike Tagliarino
Laraine Stephens
as Ginny Duffy
Brooke Bundy
as Camille Lawrence
Sharon Gless
as Lesley Fuller
Adrienne Barbeau
as Veronica Daniels
Ron Glass
as Jerry Grant
J. Kenneth Campbell
FR·02
The numbers
37years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Artie Shaw — oldest on the call sheet
31J. Kenneth Campbell — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast