Originally Posted by
longer ron
It is a shame that the Films of EKG's books were never done very well - there is usually enough aviation content for us aviation enthusiasts (if only for a laugh sometimes).
The Film called
Fate Is the Hunter is actually more akin to the EKG novel
Band Of Brothers.
His book
The High and The Mighty is a very impressive read but the film is nowhere near as good - John Wayne plays the older co pilot very well but the cabin scenes are straight out of
Airplane 
Island in the sky is an interesting film for us but probably a bit slow for the average punter.
Fate is the Hunter is definitely at the top of my reading list and I must dig it out again sometime - it has been a while LOL
More accurate to say that the cabin scenes in Airplane are straight out of The High and the Mighty (and Airplane's direct source, Zero Hour, via the Airport films)
The film version of Fate is the Hunter did give us the interesting jet conversion of a DC-6....