Lost Flight trap. When a child is born, the survivors unite to create a new society. Producer Frank Price originally came up with the idea of stranded passengers on a deserted island in 1966, naming his proposed TV series "Stranded". When that project failed to attract much interest, it was put on hold with a new two-hour pilot movie later hatched in 1970 that resulted in "Lost Flight". Although aired in 1969, the pilot did not lead to a series. Capt. J.S. Solomon from Trans World Airlines (TWA) was the technical advisor on the film. A Boeing 707 N790SA on lease from
American Trans-Oceanic Company also included a full-time flight school in Long Island and Palm Beach using Curtiss aircraft. New innovations were deployed, such as a Sperry autopilot. Rates varied from $15 for a 15-minute flight to $250 for a 320-mile flight to Cuba. Four five-hour flights a week were flown to Bimini at night. By 1918, the company carried four to five thousand passengers without incident. The company's most distinctive aircraft was "Big Fish", A Curtiss H-16 painted as a fish that flew between Palm Beach, Havana, Nassau, and New York City. In 1927, Wanamaker sponsored Richard E. Byrd through the American Trans-Oceanic