The twilight zone
The OdYssey of Flight 33
WITH John Anderson Pa u l C o m i Sandy Kenyon Wayne Heffley Harp McGuire Betty Garde Beverly Brown Nancy Rennick Jay Overholts Lester Fletcher 1 A MODERN PASSENGER JET FLIGHTING FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK...
THE CREW KEEPS ALL UNDER CONTROL.
Give me flight progress report...
2 We are four minutes behind flight plan...
Well, thanks to the quali- tà of the aircraft, we’ll land under schedule...
3 Global 33, we’ll land at 18:30 !
A STEWARDESS ENTERS IN THE CABIN.
How are the passen- gers, Jane?
4 Passengers are well… ste- wardesses wish to land in New york as soon as possibi- le because they have their dates...
BUT THE COMMANDER NOTICES SOMETHING STRANGE. Hold a moment… the- re’s something… a sensation of speed!
5 It looks all Ok... Maybe a tail wind!
But… ground spe- ed is 1,500! It’s im- possibile!
6 Check with the weather ship...
We are up to 3,400! Still in- creasing!
7 I hope the wings hold...
Nothing. I can’t reach the weather ship...
8 A jet flighting from London to New York. A safe, well- engineered machine, and the crew is a trained, cool, very effi- cient team. The problem is simply that the plane is going too fast...
This plane is moving into the twilight zone! This is the odyssey of flight 33...
9 I am seeing the Valkyrie tonight… shall we make it in time…?
We are in trouble… they don’t know yet how bad it is…!
10 Now, Paula, go ahe- ad… Milk, coffee, and tea… and smile!
LUCKILY, PASSENGERS ...when that woman passed DON’T REALIZE. away… would you believe that there were five medical associations which wanted her liver...
11 Don’t you feel this… a strange sensation of… acceleration…?
I checked communications four times… nobody an- swers!
MEANWHILE, PILOTS ARE TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY...
12 What’s going on?
Did we hit some- thing?
BUT SUDDENLY THE PLANE IS SHAKED!!!
So 1 and 2! Some- Numbers 3 and 4 are one make a check still on their way... for damage!
13 That was not a turbu- lence, looked more like a sound sho- ckwave...
You mean we hit the sound barrier… it’s im- possibile!
14 Ground speed was 3,700… it was not the sound barrier. Can we have a fix now?
That hit has broken everything...
15 We don’t know our position. We must go down and esta- blish visual contact...
We risk a collision with other flights!
You got any alternative?
16 We’d better make some public rela- tions...
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the cap- tain! Everything is under control and the plane has no damage! We only met some atmospheric phenomena… we have only some radio malfunctions. We should be landing in New York in 40 minutes.
17 Well, we have no radio contact, no ground radar points and we don’t know where we are… and this beast is gobbling all the fuel… Let’s go down…!
THE ALARM RINGS FOR LANDING.
18 That’s Manhattan island down there...
...but I don’t see the buildings! The city is missing!
19 Look at that… hurry!
But… it’s not possible!
20 INTO THE FOREST, THE WELL KNOWN SHAPE OF A BRONTHOSAURUS CAN BE SEEN...
What is going on…?
21 I have a single expla- nation… somehow and someway we ha- ve gone back in time!
But… what will we do about it?
22 There’s only one thing… we have to climb again, go as faster as we can, and trying to go back where we were...
All right, let’s do it...
23 Now let’s go down again...
THE PLANE IS SHAKEN AGAIN...
I know we are in trouble, but passengers are clai- ming...
24 Look… we have made it!
AT LAST THE FAMILIAR NEW YORK SKYLINE APPEARS...
25 Thanks to God...
Ladies and gentlemen, we should be landing in the next few minutes...
...thank you!
26 La Guardia, this is Global 33… come in, please!
Global 33? We do- n’t know it...
ANSWER IS NOT THE EXPECTED ONE.
27 Global airlines, flight 33! Request radar vector...
Request WHAT? And what kind of aircraft is this?
28 This is a jet aircraft, and we are in need for fuel! We need radar vector...
We don’t know anytihng about jets or radars! But if you are in need for fuel, you are cleared for landing on runway 22. The captain has to report in CAA office immediately after lan- ding!
29 CAA? We haven’t called it that way in years...
Skipper… do you know what that is…?
30 IN PLACE OF THE U.N. BUILDING, ANOTHER ONE VERY UNUSUAL...
The New York world’s fair… in 1939! We came back… not far enough!
31 We got to try What now? again...
What about the passengers…?
32 We let them know it! Ladies and gentle- men, this is you cap- tain… I can’t explain this by myself, but...
...somehow, someway, in some manner this aircraft has gone back into time, and that is 1939...
33 We will try to increase speed and go back through the same sound barrier as we have do- ne twice before… I don’t know if we can do it! I ask to you to remain calm… and prey!
IF SOME MOMENT, ANY MOMENT, YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF JET EN- GINES FLYING ATOP THE OVERCAST, SHOOT UP A FLARE OR DO SO- METHING. THAT WOULD BE GLOBAL 33 TRYING TO GET HOME… FROM THE TWI- LIGHT ZONE!
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