Terror in the Air
Description
After the entire airline crew gets sick from bad food, a doctor has to figure out how to safely bring the plane down while also helping a woman who is about to give birth.
A commercial airline faces crisis when both the pilot and copilot become incapacitated. Stewardess Fran Carwell recruits Dr. Sam McCall, an out-of-practice pilot, who receives guidance from an unidentified ground control operator. The situation grows complicated when a passenger requires medical assistance during childbirth. At landing, a shocking revelation emerges: the voice is discovered to be that of a pilot who supposedly died in a crash with Dr. McCall's son.
When the pilot and copilot of a commercial jet become disabled, stewardess Fran Carwell finds the only one aboard who knows how to fly is a Dr. Sam McCall. Although he hasn't flown for years, a voice from an unidentified ground control station guides him, and all is well until he has to assist a passenger who's having a baby. At the airport, the tension deepens when the voice is discovered to be that of a pilot who supposedly died in a crash with Dr. McCall's son.
When the whole flight crew of a commercial airline falls ill due to food poisoning, a doctor must find a way to land the plane safely as well as attend to a woman in the throes of labor.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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