Directed and written by George Seaton, Airport (1970) is an air disaster-drama film. It follows the combined escapades of the officials of a busy airport as they attempt to fix several openings ...

Disaster movies dominated Hollywood in the 1970s, and the trend even spread into made-for-television projects. Most of these films featured ensemble casts with big name actors enduring some sort of ...

JOSE GALVEZ / ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1972 The first recorded airplane hijacking took place in May 1930, but it wasn't until the late 1960s that the number of hijackings really started to increase. It was ...