Collision in the sky
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Collision in the sky |
| Original title | Blackout Effect |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jeff Bleckner |
| script | Matthew Bombeck |
| production | Anthony Santa Croce |
| music | Gary Chang |
| camera | Alan Caso |
| cut | Geoffrey Rowland |
| occupation | |
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Kollision am Himmel (also: Die Kollision - Inferno am Himmel ) is an American disaster film from 1998 with Eric Stoltz .
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185 people are killed in the collision of a passenger plane with a cargo plane on approach to Chicago airport . The cause of the accident is apparently an incorrect instruction from air traffic controller Henry Drake - as he claims, due to a brief failure ('blackout') of his control monitor . John Dantley from the aviation security agency is supposed to investigate the case, but is shocked to discover that his former partner, a stewardess, is among the victims.
When John's superior finds out about it, he accuses him of bias and wants to withdraw the case; but John promises not to let his personal feelings influence his judgment and continues the investigation.
Meanwhile, air traffic controller Henry Drake is being blamed in the media. However, the latter protests his innocence and points to a malfunction in the flight control computer system . John Dentley has since learned from an acquaintance that his former partner was expecting a child and that she was on the plane to tell him about this. He believes Drake's statement and gets to the bottom of it. Eventually, it turns out that a fan in the controller had failed, causing the system to overheat and causing the malfunction. Those in charge at the control center had replaced this fan after the crash and tampered with the documentation to cover up the fact that Drake had warned them but that they had done nothing about it.
Henry Drake is no longer allowed to work as an air traffic controller; instead, he does messenger services in the control center. During one of his tours, he happened to witness a power outage when he was near the power generator in the basement. Now he is also held responsible for this incident because he was at the said location at the time of the power failure and this was recorded by a surveillance camera.
Drake is released and now wants to make the public aware of the technical breakdowns at Midway Airport on his own. He builds a kind of EMP weapon with which he wants to paralyze the entire control center on a Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving ), if those responsible don't shut down the system and renew it on their own. Drake hacked into the system and issued warnings that no one should fly on Wednesday.
Finally, he gets a forged ID from the company that maintains the equipment in the control center. Drake - disguised as a maintenance technician - can regain access to the control center. He holed up with his EMP weapon in the basement and wanted to paralyze the entire system, just as he had previously disabled the electronics in the tower with the same weapon .
Fortunately, John Dantley finds out about Drake's whereabouts in time and is able to prevent him from using the EMP weapon after confirming his innocence in the plane crash.
Reviews
“Jeff Bleckner, director of the Hitchcock remake 'Das Fenster zum Hof' (1998) with Christopher Reeve , ensures an intelligent thrill despite small inconsistencies. Although his film does not fall out of the TV framework, there is still more behind the story than in the usual disaster movies. The actors are also impressive. "
"Dramatic crime film borrowed from conventional disaster films."
Web links
- Blackout Effect in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Collision in the sky in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tvspielfilm.de/filmlexikon/?type=filmdetail&film_id=459022
- ↑ Collision in the sky. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .