![]() If you’ve seen his last decade of work, Neeson characters do things on their own they don’t need help. The role screams for Liam Neeson – right down to Maggie Grace having a do-nothing supporting role – except for the fact that the protagonist needs assistance from a journalist to track down his target. But the various elements of the movie are interesting and it is a case that less would have made 'Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501' more.Have you ever watched a movie and thought that a different actor was probably pitched the screenplay, rejected it for one reason or another, and therefore we got the one who wound up accepting it instead? That’s the feeling I came away from with Aftermath, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cheryl Ladd and the other actors are convincing, but the special effects and footage used aren’t." Andy Webb, in his review for The Movie Scene pinpointed the problems with the film: "What this all boils down to is as a whole movie 'Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501' doesn't work it is too contrived and now seriously dated. In a later review of Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Sergio Ortego in, commented: "I like the depiction of the media and their misinterpretation of air disasters. The accident was a startlingly similar echo of the events in the film. In 1996, six years after the release of Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, ValuJet Flight 592, a DC-9, as depicted in the film, crashed after dangerous goods illegally loaded into the cargo compartment caused an in-flight fire which brought down the aircraft. The aircraft is flown by the fictional ConWest Airlines, flight 1501, on the Baltimore–Kansas City–San Francisco route. The aircraft depicted in Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 is the ubiquitous DC-9 or its look-alike twin McDonnell Douglas MD-80. Principal photography began on Jand was finished by August that year. With the working titles, Aftermath: The Mystery of Flight 1501 and The Mysterious Crash of Flight 1501, the television film was mainly a studio-made affair with stock aerial footage. Joe Horváth as Booth (credited as Joe Horvath). ![]() Gregory Feith as Co-Pilot Pasco (credited as Greg Feith).Doug Sheehan as Gregory "Greg" Halstead.With the help of a few experts, she is able to prove that there was a fire in the cargo hold of the aircraft, the fire starting by spontaneous combustion of a piece of cargo, this in turn caused the crash. Diane makes an official statement in which she claims her husband was not responsible, but she is not considered a reliable source, in view of the fact that she could lose pension and other benefits.ĭiane refuses to accept that her husband will be blamed for the crash and does everything to get the entire truth revealed. Diane asks if that was the reason why Greg crashed, but Cody explains that it is more complicated. Cody finds out that the CIA was spying on the aircraft with on-board surveillance equipment, interfering with the aircraft's radar. Stirred up by news reporter Spense Zolman ( Jim Metzler), who senses a good story, the investigators find there was no bomb on board, and all the evidence points to Greg. He tells her that Greg is the prime suspect in the crash investigation and collects information from her, finding out that Greg was on medication. She is contacted by Scott Cody ( Jeffrey DeMunn), who works for the Air Line Pilots Association, International union. Diane is devastated when she hears the news, until she finds out that Greg is one of the few survivors. The FBI notices that the CIA immediately collected cargo out of the wreckage and labeled it top secret. Amid speculation about the cause of the crash, some suspect Greg of refusing to follow orders. The Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Transportation Safety Board jointly investigate scene of the accident. ![]() Greg decides to make an emergency landing in Dayton, Ohio, but due to severe thunderstorms, the DC-9 crashes, killing almost everyone on board. Unknown to the killer, however, the politician has already left the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airliner because of an hour-and-a-half delay. The person carrying the bomb supposedly wants to kill another passenger, Senator Charleston (John Rayburn) a politician with an outspoken opinion on abortion. On his latest ConWest Airlines flight, Greg, a professional pilot, is alerted to a bomb threat. She does not become pregnant and becomes estranged from her husband. Diane ( Cheryl Ladd) and Greg Halstead ( Doug Sheehan) were once happily married, in later years, even deciding to try to have a baby, despite the fact that she had already suffered two miscarriages. ![]()
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