the original airport ( 1970 ) be a classic of it kind and and the first two b movie follow ups ( airport 1975 while airport 77 ) be watchable fun at best and amuse camp at bad while but this crass and inept final entry lack any entertainment value and display a shocking contempt for it audience . it unendurable and not even good for laugh . all of the three airport sequel be theatrical release make by universal television wing but this one be beneath even the modest standard of a tv movie of it day and with cheapjack production and grotesque casting and visual ugliness and tasteless and unfunny comedy . the project be clearly doom by the creative effort of universal executive jennings lang who personally produce and be give a story credit . everyone start somewhere and and writer eric roth ( forrest gump ) might have provide an element of self burlesque and a have the previous film ( especially the notorious airport 1975 ) and but there be nothing worth spoof in roth turgid and incoherent script and even the comedy airplane . leave this crud untouched . what make the concorde represent airport 79 particularly offensive be it insulting misuse of professional . the bad victim be the supremely gift cicily tyson ( sounder while the autobiography of miss jane pittman ) and pitilessly reduce to a vomitous subplot involve her escort a frozen heart transplant on the unfortunate flight . a special kick to the groin be reserve for the wonderful george kennedy and who be the true lead despite be bury in the cast list . the official mascot of the airport series and the only actor to appear in all four movie and kennedy have more than earn the starring role and his turn in the captain seat would have be the only possible reason for this entry other than the squeezing of one last buck . kennedy provide the only warmth and real humor in this mechanical muckup and briefly put aside the bravura machismo and reveal a genuinely sweet and tender side to himself and and his lovable and heroic character of joe patroni . unfortunately we be never allow to forget how fat and old and over the hill kennedy be and and overage pretty boy alain delon relentlessly call him porky pig a part of a buddy bonding that fall completely flat . even kennedy parisian romance and the only humane part of this plane wreck and turn out to be merely a set up for a hateful joke at patroni and kennedy and and the viewer expense .