Free Fall

Free Fall (1999)

An NTSB investigator and her boyfriend, who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.

Date of release
1999-01-17
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Thriller, Action, TV Movie
Director
Mario Azzopardi

Casting

Interesting facts

Free Fall is a 1999 action television film directed by Mario Azzopardi and written by Ken and Jim Wheat, based on a story by Mark Homer. The film stars Jaclyn Smith, Bruce Boxleitner, Scott Wentworth, Hannes Jaenicke and Hayden Christensen. It documents an unusual series of crashes involving sabotaged airliners. It aired on Fox Family Channel on January 8, 1999.

Production

Free Fall was filmed by Falling Productions Inc on locations in Toronto, at Toronto Pearson International Airport's old Terminal 1 and in Uxbridge, Ontario. The use of stock footage of airliners is evident. The crash scenes including the first crash is edited from Fearless (1993), while scenes from Miracle Landing (1990) are also used.

The film aired on Fox Family Channel in the U.S. on January 8, 1999, with 1999 releases in Italy as Freefall - Panico ad alta quota (later broadcast on Rai 1 in 2008), in Germany as Angst über den Wolken. The film had its video premiere in Spain in 2000, followed by video releases in France as Crashes en série, Germany as Freefall: Todesflug 1301, Japan, and New Zealand. It had its television premiere in Sweden on February 19, 2007.

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