On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:30:53 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Kev" wrote in message
roups.com...

Ouch, that _does_ sound bad. Okay, how about that recent one where
the airplane's trim (and throttle?) were stuck in an "up" position...
so they used a hose from an aerial tanker to fill the nose wheel well
with water (which froze into ice)... and when they got close to the
ground it melted and fell out when they dropped the nose gear. What
was that title? Awful !!!


There was a real piece of crap made for TV about twenty years ago. As I
recall an HST evades a meteor shower by climbing, flies too high and
inadvertently enters orbit. I think Lee Majors was the pilot.

"Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086357/

The sorry thing is, I actually *remembered* the title....

Ron Wanttaja