Crash Landing (aka Rescue at Sea) is a 1958 American dramatic disaster film directed by Fred F. Sears starring Gary Merrill and Nancy Davis.

In command... Captain Steven Williams... hours in the air... fifteen thousand four hundred and twenty-one, engineer... Howard Whitney, co-pilot... John Smithback, navigator... Jed Sutton.

They include Teddy Burton, a child on the flight whose dog Wilbur is in the rear cargo area of the airliner.

After his death in November 1957, Crash Landing (originally known by the working title "Rescue at Sea") was one of five films that were finished but remained unreleased for a year.

[9] Following some of the now-familiar plot devices in disaster films, as a recent review by Jeff Stafford noted, "There’s also plenty of drama going on in the passenger section with an assortment of disagreeable and problematic travellers caught up in their own personal crisis."

Stafford further described the climactic crash as "As for the final splashdown in 'Crash Landing', it’s bound to be a disappointment for most considering the big dramatic buildup to it, but did you really expect much from a Sam Katzman-Fred F. Sears production?

A miniature model airplane, some jerky camera movements, a water tank and some intensely dramatic music, courtesy of composer Mischa Bakaleinikoff ..."[11] A scene where passenger Maurice Stanley offers Mrs. Willouby a cup of coffee is parodied in the satirical comedy film Airplane!, with their respective roles assumed by child actors David Hollander and Michelle Stacy.