The circumstances of the plight of Flight 232 are well documented. With it's stellar cast I felt this would be a can't-miss. How totally wrong was I. Instead of focusing on the drama in the cockpit, we're seeing so little of that but rather the happenings in the personal life of Richard Thomas's character, which are probably all fiction . We don't even see the cockpit until off duty pilot Denny Fitch comes into it. In the real life event, they had been struggling to keep the plane flying for awhile before Fitch came into the picture & offered to help. The mock up of the DC-10 cockpit is as phony as a $3 bill in which nothing at all resembles the real thing. The only thing real was when they used the actual footage of the plane coming in and crash landing. This was clearly a showcase for Richard Thomas and not for the actual event. This DVD got tossed in the trash.
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
(1992 TV Movie)
One of the worst films about an actual event.
3 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers