19 December 2003

Airspace Over the Pacific

Watched one of our favorite Christmas movies tonight, Mercy Mission. This is a television movie starring Scott Bakula as a rather feckless young pilot who doesn't want to give up his free-agent life as a pilot, despite a pregnant wife, who takes on an assignment to fly a small crop-dusting plane to Australia. His navigational equipment goes on the fritz after he leaves Pago-Pago and he's lost over the Pacific. The pilot (played by Robert Loggia) of the only aircraft in the area, an Air New Zealand flight, is determined to save him. Even James gets teary-eyed as Jay guides his rain-battered Cessna into Auckland airspace.

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