Airport 80 Concorde (1979)

Storyline :   American based Federation World Airlines has just acquired a Concorde jet, which will make its inaugural commercial flight ...

Storyline :  American based Federation World Airlines has just acquired a Concorde jet, which will make its inaugural commercial flight from Washington, D.C. to Paris, and then to Moscow as a goodwill gesture prior to the 1980 Olympic Games. Among those on board is Maggie Whelan, a television reporter, who is taking both legs of the trip. Just after boarding at Dulles International Airport, she receives documents conclusively and unequivocally stating that her boyfriend, Dr. Kevin Harrison, the Chairman of Harrison Industries, an aerospace contractor, is complicit in illegally selling arms to enemy regimes. Regardless, Maggie loves Kevin, who vows to do the right thing by making a public statement to his illegal activities. Maggie also intends on making an on-air report of the story once she arrives in Moscow. Kevin, however, has other thoughts. He plans on destroying the documents, the most convenient way being to bring down the Concorde with Maggie aboard, initially having the attack on the ... {full_page}

Stars :  Alain Delon,  Susan Blakely,  Robert Wagner,  Sylvia Kristel,  George Kennedy, Eddie Albert,  Bibi Andersson,  Charo,  John Davidson,  Andrea Marcovicci, Martha Raye,  Cicely Tyson,  Jimmie Walker,  David Warner,  Mercedes McCambridge, Sybil Danning  {fbt_slider_post}