Flight 174
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Just recently I have taken to watching old air-crash films as I tend to follow documentaries explaining what goes wrong with crashed airliners,and the feature films recreate these scenarios in dramatic circumstances.<br /><br />
One of the more recent films I looked back on was 'Falling from the sky:Flight 174' with William Devane.<br /><br />
This flight had to do an emergency landing at Gimli when it was headed for Montreal and found the runway full of people on a car rally,including some kids on bikes. Nevertheless it landed.<br /><br />
Today I was watching 'Urban Legends' where one is supposed to pick out true and false stories from those told. Two guys in one story,claimed to have been cycling on a runway and chased down it by an airliner at Gimli.<br /><br />
Of course I knew it was true,because I'd only just watched the film about the same flight!
Date submitted:Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:52:12 +0000Coincidence ID:9031
