Airport '77 -

Released on March 11, 1977, is the third installment in Universal Pictures' famed Airport franchise. Deviating from the typical mid-air mechanical crisis, this film plunges into a high-stakes underwater rescue mission after a luxury 747 is hijacked and ditched into the Bermuda Triangle. Plot Overview

The story follows Phillip Stevens, a wealthy art collector and airline tycoon, who uses his private Boeing 747 to transport a cargo of priceless masterpieces to his new museum in Florida. A team of art thieves, led by the co-pilot, hijacks the plane using sleeping gas. However, their plan to fly below radar goes catastrophically wrong when the plane clips an offshore drilling rig and crashes into the ocean. The aircraft sinks to the seafloor, trapping the survivors in a pressurized cabin 100 feet underwater as they wait for a daring U.S. Navy rescue. Airport '77

The film maintained the series' tradition of featuring an ensemble of veteran Hollywood stars: Re-Submerging into "Airport '77" - Poseidon's Underworld Released on March 11, 1977, is the third