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German Airlines Captain Tom Hutton plane crashes, causing the death of 169 people (including the wife of his best friend), and the investigating committee accuse him of pilot error. He has a breakdown, and disappears...

Two years later, a haunted Tom living in a shack on the Florida Keys, divides his time between his work as a weather man, and the local bar. A second crash brings the past back when Tom’s best friend Frank Wilkens, now owner of the German airline, is hauled in front of the Federal Air Bureau’s investigation committee. There are similarities between the two disasters. Tom is cross-questioned by the F.A.B.’s determined hot-shot lawyer Maria Phillips, a woman he is furious to recognise from a drunken night in the local bar where she flirted with him in order to elicit information about his crash. Maria suspects some kind of conspiracy, and attempts to persuade Tom to investigate. Tom flies to Frankfurt where he discovers the airline may have been involved in the illicit trade of bogus airplane parts, a scam which appears to have gone tragically wrong. Whilst searching for the missing Head of Technical Operations at the airline, Berniers, a man who would seem to hold some of the answers,Tom begins to succumb to the charms of the seductive Maria. And slowly but surely, he finds himself being pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse... But who can he trust? Maria, says she is investigating the cover-up, but always seems to turn up whenever Tom is in danger. Raab, a shadowy figure, claims to work for some kind of pilot’s organisation, but certainly doesn’t want Tom muddying his investigations. Berniers, a man on the run and terrified for his life, but in it up to his neck and Wilkens himself, Tom’s oldest and best friend, who Maria claims is behind the whole sinister operation. With time against him, only Tom can piece together the clues that will lead him to the truth, and only Tom can save a third plane from disaster... Based on a novel by Heinz G Konsalik. A Gemini film in association with ARD/Degeto Film, Premiere and DGK

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Science

  • Producers: n/a

  • Broadcaster: n/a

  • Duration: 1 x 89'

  • Tags: Mystery

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