Two years later, on July 19, 1989, a commercial jetliner loses pressure simultaneously in three engines its pilot, Captain Haynes (Charlton Heston), is directed to the tiny Siouxland Gateway Airport.
Brown persuades Hathaway to join him in an uneasy alliance, realizing Brown's dream of a Disaster Preparedness Committee. Political turncoat by old-boy hard-liners, his fortunes change in a one-on-one confrontation with National Guard honcho Jim Hathaway (James Coburn). Gary Brown (Richard Thomas), a maverick fire official in Sioux City, Iowa, is seeking to consolidate civil defense programs, local fire departments, and Air National Guard disaster relief efforts into a single coordinated plan to deal with major acts of God. Shot in 1992, this routine made-for-television movie focuses almost exclusively on ground crew A THOUSAND HEROES is a behind-the-scenes retelling of the real-life disaster of United Airlines Flight 232, the Denver-to-Chicago 747 hop that went awry somewhere in the skies over Iowa.
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