The Crash of Flight 401
Drama
TV Movie
The nerve-shattering experience of a lifetime. More astonishing because it actually happened.
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.
1978-10-29
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Cast
Director
Barry Shear
William Shatner as Carl Tobias
Adrienne Barbeau as Veronica Daniels
Brooke Bundy as Camille Lawrence
Christopher Connelly as Mike Tagliarino
Lorraine Gary as Emily Mulwray
Ron Glass as Jerry Grant
Sharon Gless as Lesley Fuller
Brett Halsey as Standish
Joyce Jameson as Sophie Cross
George Maharis as Evan Walsh
Ed Nelson as Philip Mulwray
Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Larry Cross
Artie Shaw as Elderly Passenger
Joe Silver as Alvin Jessop
Laraine Stephens as Ginny Duffy
W.K. Stratton as Ray Ordway
Richard Yniguez as Osario
Eddie Albert as Capt. Dunn
Maria Melendez as Cecilia Tagliarino
George Murdock as Claypool
Don 'Red' Barry as Helicopter Pilot
Lurene Tuttle
Shirley O'Hara
Susan Brown
J. Kenneth Campbell
Royal Dano
Jerry Douglas as Miami Approach Controller
Marcy Lafferty
Read Morgan
Lane Smith
Donna Kei Benz
Bob Hastings
Buddy Lester
Julio Medina
Mark Pinter as Stretcher Bearer
C. Lindsay Workman as Dr. Baylor
Leoda Richards as Passenger (uncredited)