Family Flight is an American television movie that originally aired on ABC on October 25, 1972.
The film stars Rod Taylor and centers on a family whose plane crash-lands in the Baja California peninsula.
But the attempt is ruined by a family member draining the battery by falling asleep listening to the plane's FM radio the night before takeoff.
After admonishing the boy, the father attempts to manually start the plane from spinning the propeller with his arms.
Howard Thompson gave Family Flight a positive review in The New York Times, praising Rod Taylor's "fine, gutsy performance" and the "credible precision of the climax.