Family Flight


Family Flight is an American television movie that originally aired on ABC on October 25, 1972. The film stars Rod Taylor and centers on a family whose plane crash-lands in the Baja California peninsula. The film was one of the first times Taylor was cast to play a father.

Plot

A family on a small plane gets caught in a storm and crash lands in the desert. Short on food and water they manage to repair the plane. But the attempt is ruined by a family member draining the battery by falling asleep listening to the plane's FM radio the night before takeoff. After admonishing the boy, the father attempts to manually start the plane by spinning the propeller with his arms. The plane starts but the propeller lacerated the father's arm severely. The family takes off with the son at the controls and attempt to land on a nearby aircraft carrier! They fail and have to try again. In the end they are rescued and the father is given emergency surgery by the ship's hospital.

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