I saw this as a kid and it really stuck with me. People in these huge accidents are .. .people. It can happen to any of us no matter what our plans. I was only 10 years old at the time and over the years I started wondering if this film were real or just some dream I had once.
The 70's saw a lot of natural disaster and air disaster films. This one seems to really ring the "Oh my gosh that could happen to me!" bell. In a way I wish they'd called it something different and not put in the accident scene at the beginning. It would have had a "Sixth Sense" or Hitchcock-style twist to it then. In any case by the end the accident scene had totally changed because now these were people I knew. My little 10-yr old brain was shocked by that.
(Kind of hard to write a non spoiler comment on a movie that starts out with a spoiler at its beginning, eh?)
The 70's saw a lot of natural disaster and air disaster films. This one seems to really ring the "Oh my gosh that could happen to me!" bell. In a way I wish they'd called it something different and not put in the accident scene at the beginning. It would have had a "Sixth Sense" or Hitchcock-style twist to it then. In any case by the end the accident scene had totally changed because now these were people I knew. My little 10-yr old brain was shocked by that.
(Kind of hard to write a non spoiler comment on a movie that starts out with a spoiler at its beginning, eh?)