Yes I know it looks like a model, but remember CGI was many years off.

Of all the Airport movies, Airport ’77 gets the prize for the most incredible plot line.

As usual their are some shenanigans on a plane, but this time the plane ends up falling out of the sky (after being hijacked by robbers) and submerging in the ocean off the coast of Bermuda.

Crew and passengers then spend most of the film stuck under the ocean watching water drip, drip, dripping into the cabin which mysteriously is as air tight as your average submarine on the bottom. Isn’t it always the way: although the submarine was “never built to take this pressure” some how it always manages to, well this time a plane claims the same incredible feats of withstanding water pressure.

In some ways this film reminded me of the Poseidon Adventure, but that’s hardly a bad thing.