oh and you pilot be such men . they do not call it the cockpit for nothing and honey . dialogue like that be just one of many reason why the concorde airport 79 ( or and if you saw it in the uk where it drag it heel get release there and airport 80 represent the concorde ) be the last and by far the least of the series . the disaster movie be in dire strait in the late70s and what with the swarm have offer much unintentional hilarity and beyond the poseidon adventure and when time run out and city on fire simply offer much boredom and and the desperation to find a new spin on the genre be all too apparent here . this time it a conspiracy plot and with susan blakely news anchorwoman discover billionaire boyfriend robert wagner have be sell arm to terrorist and the north vietnamese . naturally and she decide to tell him everything rather than make the story public and but and he fob her off by explain i be a very rich man . i have everything in life i could ever want . why would i jeopardise that by do something so incredibly stupid . just in case she doesn not buy that line and rather than and say hire a hit man to kill her on the ground and he decide to do thing the smart way by plan to destroy the concorde while she fly to moscow via paris . i have do a lot of thing i have be ashamed of and but i be not a murderer and he insist indignantly on his way to reprogramme a guided missile to destroy the plane . so and nothing incredibly stupid there . and when that fail and he send a jet fighter after it . and when that fail don not even think of look for anything resemble logic here represent this be real bottom of the barrel stuff that even the studio give up on and market a a comedy in the u after critic laugh it off the screen . where the previous three entry all have the look of glossy big budget entertainment and this small screen friendly effort ( the only one not to be shoot in 2 . 35 represent1 widescreen ) doesn not even manage to make the concorde look good and which be quite a feat . tv veteran david lowell rich presumably get the directing gig because he be fast and cheap and have previously direct tv movie sst represent disaster in the sky where peter grave supersonic airplane find itself unable to land due to sabotage and senegalese flu ( which be not and intentionally at least and a comedy despite the presence of a young billy crystal in the cast ) and seem like the natural choice for what look like a $ 14m tv movie that somehow escape into theatre when no one be look . cast like a bad episode of hollywood square and star be in very short supply this time round and and most of the few vaguely familiar face seem to have be round up from rehab clinic and bust sitcom . alain delon give the hollywood career that one last shot a the pilot and happy fish ( do not ask ) george kennedy move from the executive suite to the co pilot seat in the hope of remind people of the other movie and while the rest of the ensemble include a couple of veteran of the tower inferno ( wagner and blakely ) and a soft porn star ( sylvia kristel and try to go respectable ) and an ingmar bergman regular ( bibi andersson and she the one play the hooker . ) and david warner navigator on a diet have nightmare about be chase by banana and the voice of the devil ( mercedes mccambridge ) and charo and her seeing eye chihuahua ( dohn miscon screw me ) and martha raye and her weak bladder and jimmie walker play the sax in his seat and smoke weed in the john ( in the few moment it not occupy by martha raye ) and cicely tyson kiss her credibility goodbye a the obligatory mother with critically ill child and a frozen heart in the overhead locker and airline owner eddie albert and trophy wife sybil danning occupy the best seat in the house and ed begley jr in goggles and and the russian olympic team and their lovable coach val avery and his deaf daughter ( ahhhh . ) on a goodwill tour of the state ( who know about the boycott . ) . just to add a touch of the simpson to proceeding and harry shearer voice one news report in the same tone he would later use for smithers . highlight . despite the impromptu wedding ceremony during a crash landing and it just have to be george kennedy divert a heat seek missile by open the window and stick his arm out ( at nearly twice the speed of sound . ) and fire a flare while the plane be upside down . and then alain delon turn off the engine so there would not be a heat source for the missile to home in on yes and someone actually get pay for write this and and that someone be future oscar winner and screenwriter of munich and the insider eric roth ( hey and everybody have to start somewhere ) and although in his defence it be producer jennings lang who come up with the plot . still and what do you expect from a film that credit stunt balloonist and end with a shot of the concorde fly off into the sunset . amazingly and in one of those would not admit defeat moment studio use to be prone to and universal shot another 20 minute or so of footage a couple of year later to include in the network tv showing ( not include on the dvd ) . sadly it box office failure lead to the fifth entry in the series and the laugh riot that would have be airport 1984 represent ufo and never get off the ground . even more genuinely tragically and it be the concorde use in this film that crash in france 21 year later . ( oh and and if youre wonder what charo say to her chihuahua in unsubtitled spanish when it not allow on board and it what do you think . don not worry . when the revolution come and i promise you will fly on anything you want . i promise . what a shame and my love . what do they think they be . ) .