This film is the last of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster struck role as Joe Patroni who has to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps! This is all because a lady on board, Maggie has some documents which put Harrison Industries in big trouble (showing that they make nuclear weapons) and their leader, played by Robert Wagner, wants the Concorde to crash with Maggie (Susan Blakely) in it!!

The Concorde featured in the film first flew as F-WTSC on 31 Jan 1975, and was the 7th Concorde built. It was re-registered as F-BTSC (serial number 203)in May 1975, and it appears with this registration in the film. The Concorde was leased from Aerospatiale (France) for the movie, and was sold to Air France in October 1980. This Concorde was the same aircraft which crashed after tyre bust caused a fule tank to rupture and the leaking fuel catch fire on July 25th 2000, while taking off from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.

Isabelle:
You pilots are such... men.


Capt. Joe Patroni:
Well, they don't call it a "cockpit" for nothing.

Continuity: The runway the Concorde uses to land at Le Bourget turns into a taxiway and changes color continuously. The same happens when it takes off from Roissy afterwards.