Themes: Fathers and Daughters, Air Disasters, Race Against Time
Main Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Joe Mantegna, Charles Powell
Release Year: 1998
Country: US
Run Time: 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Joe Mantegna stars in this action drama in which a wealthy businessman sends his private jet to pick up his 13-year-old daughter and two of his most trusted employees for an important banquet at which he will speak. In transit, the jet is caught in a serious electrical storm that kills the pilot and the other two adults, leaving the girl to try and land the plane with only the radio contact of the air traffic controller to guide her. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Airspeed is a 1998Canadian film from Lions Gate Entertainment & Melenny Productions. In the movie, the passengers and crew of a private jet are incapacitated by an explosive decompression. The teenage daughter of the owner of the private jet is the only survivor.