Originally Posted by
BonnieLass
Wasn't that scenario the base plot for the original Airport film (the one with the 707 that had a crack running almost entirely around the tail after a briefcase bomb went off in the rear toilet and Patroni had to clear another aircraft off the runway that was stuck in the snow to allow the bombed aircraft to land....and he managed it all whilst chewing a cigar in true Hollywood fashion?)
That I do not know and if I saw the movie it was so long ago that I don't recall it. A classic of the silly B movie genre.
You're probably right, though and the actual event was probably the inspiration for the novel upon which the screenplay was based. I do recall reading the novel and finding it not very good.