713 Requests Permission to Land

713 Requests Permission to Land (Russian: 713-й просит посадку, romanized: 713 prosit posadku) is a 1962 Soviet disaster film.

In an attempted political assassination, the crew of transatlantic flight 713 is poisoned by contaminated coffee, gradually rendering them unconscious, and leaving the plane to temporarily fly on autopilot.

Soon the cockpit door is opened and the state of the crew is discovered and panic erupts.

A doctor, played by Vladimir Chestnokov, forces his way into the cockpit and regains control of the plane.

In the Soviet box office in 1962, the film ranked 13th (27.9 million viewers).