Flight into Danger

Flight into Danger is a 1956 Canadian live television play starring James Doohan, Corinne Conley and Cec Linder.

While on a flight from Toronto, Ontario, to Vancouver, British Columbia, the pilots at the controls of a Canadair North Star, a large commercial airliner, fall victim to food poisoning.

The story of an airliner whose passengers and crew were threatened by an unforeseen event such as food poisoning was written in only nine days and shopped about as a screenplay.

[4] When Flight into Danger was broadcast live-to-air on April 3, 1956, on the network's General Motors Theatre, it was seen by two million people and received a resounding positive reaction.

[11] The story was again produced for American television in 1971 as Terror in the Sky, a Movie of the Week, and more famously parodied in the 1980 comedy feature film Airplane!.

The Canadair North Star was a derivation of the Douglas DC-4 airliner and was a common sight in North America in the 1950s.