Ernest K. Gann's 1961 book, "Fate Is the Hunter," is a series of vignettes about Gann's flying career before, during, and after World War II. In Chapter XVIII of the book he describes a situation where a strange vibration occurred intermittently in an airliner he was flying, much like what occurred in "The High and the Mighty." Instead of this vibration leading to a catastrophic engine failure as was seen in the movie, it turned out that the problem was a missing elevator hinge bolt in the tail of Gann's airliner. However, had Gann not taken the exact actions that he did, the airliner would gone into an uncontrollable dive into the ocean.

Film

Nessun dato in archivio