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Speaker 7: All right, class, quite down, please, Jimmy, would you tell
the class what you learned about squirt fruit?
Speaker 8: Squirt fruit is what happens to real grapefruit when it
gets inside bottles of sport. Anything else, well, I couldn't
find much more about sport fruit, but I learned a
lot about sport. It's a natural soft drink with no
artificial colors or flavors.
Speaker 9: I guess it makes sense.
Speaker 8: To call grapefruit squirtfruit. Maybe they should put squirt fruit.
Speaker 6: In the dictionary.
Speaker 3: Also, I like squirt very much.
Speaker 10: Very good, Jimmy, Now, class, it's time for music appreciation.
Speaker 7: Oh the grape brit don't grow on a bye. It
ain't even purple, and it makes.
Speaker 11: Loudly whis so call it sport work.
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surcus covid wirter it word it gives. It's the tangy
af drink eatment, great party mix, So.
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Speaker 7: Tape is lungwort, and that's good.
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metric system. The names of this new system may sound
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a few words that have to be learned for everyday use,
and these are the millimeter, centimeter, meter, and kilometer for
describing length and distance, the millimeter and leader for capacity
or volume, the gram, kilogram and ton for weight, the
kilometer per hour for highway speed, and the degree celsius
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National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC. Flight one one three
Transaway's Airlines took off from Miami a sleek DC nine
four engine jet bound for Seattle, Washington, with one set
down at Kansas City. The bulk of her manifest was
a large charter of meatpackers returning from the convention to
be dropped off of Kansas City. The small remaining nucleus
of passengers was to be increased by only one pick up,
sixty five year old doctor Sam McCall, a man the crew,
and his fellow passengers were to thank God for.
Speaker 5: The rest of their lives.
Speaker 2: For Flight one one three was a junction ship doomed
to a nightmare that is shared by anyone who flies,
and against which every precaution is taken so that it
won't come true. This is the story of the million
to one chance when it did, and which began before
the Flora had to take off. This is Flight one
one three, Transways Airline Post K two. I'm ready to
roll as soon as you get me someone to hold
my hand.
Speaker 1: He's on his way right now from reserve. What happened
to Davey?
Speaker 2: His father had a corner. It's pretty hairy, I guess
second time around. Dave took off for the hospital like
he was fired from a gun.
Speaker 6: We're all checked out.
Speaker 2: I'll get back as soon as Dave's relief gets here.
Come hi, Franny, Well, what the sam Hill is out?
Speaker 5: Just a moment?
Speaker 7: Captain that's our jolly little cargo one hundred and fifteen
slap happy meat packers on their way.
Speaker 2: Home from the convention.
Speaker 6: Oh brother, just be.
Speaker 7: Glad you don't have to move among them. It's worse
than being in Rome. I probably won't be able to
sit down.
Speaker 5: For a week.
Speaker 6: I'll get my blast on a horn.
Speaker 5: I told them down.
Speaker 7: Oh no, they're all right. I can handle them. Just
wanted you to know we're loaded and your relief co
pilot is on the way.
Speaker 6: Who does draw it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Like it day, Captain Thomas, Look what you.
Speaker 3: Goto, Doug Flitcher?
Speaker 6: Not you? Uh no, I know we're jaxed.
Speaker 2: Dicks and stones will break my bones. But a few
breasts coming through that crowd out there, and I'm already.
Speaker 1: As high as a kite.
Speaker 6: Oh come on, let's cut the comedy.
Speaker 2: We're ten minutes late already, fran did Charlie check you.
Speaker 6: Out on the manifest?
Speaker 7: Yes, Captain, is the off plan yet we're all buttoned up.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll go get that bunch quieted down out there.
Speaker 3: Hit the no smoke and seatbelts right.
Speaker 5: Nice to have you board.
Speaker 6: Let's earn our pay.
Speaker 2: This is k Flight one one three Transways Port K
two to ground control, request permission to start engines.
Speaker 1: You have permission, Captain hitting Doug.
Speaker 6: Ready to roll soon as we get the good word.
Speaker 2: Called it a second, Roger, Doug, we'regie.
Speaker 5: Call it home the little woman, you and babies.
Speaker 2: I never can pass up that Chiffon pumpkin pie.
Speaker 5: Hey, that's funny. You know I have my way down.
Speaker 1: That's still on the pipe. Transways one waiting to roll.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're player to taxi the runway five, Roger, we
still have CAVU for the flight as far as Kansas City.
Ceiling and visibility unlimited.
Speaker 6: Thanks our way A nice sight, fame.
Speaker 2: Please with the load we're caring, we can't lose.
Speaker 6: Most of them can make it under.
Speaker 3: Their own power.
Speaker 5: Oh, it looks like a milk run all the way.
Speaker 2: Our milk run. The flight where nothing happens, where everything
goes according to the book. And so it did as
far as Kansas City, in spite of the slightly raucous
conventioneers who soon passed out quietly to be poured off
the plane gently by the stewardess. Is Two and a
half hours later, waiting to take off again, Captain Thomas
and his co pilot feed Fletcher would have no slightest
suspicion that the second half of the flight was to
make disaster history.
Speaker 7: What are we waiting for, captain to our clearance?
Speaker 13: Anything wrong?
Speaker 6: Something coming in?
Speaker 2: I guess outload you could shoot deer back there.
Speaker 7: Let's see, we have only thirty two left.
Speaker 3: We didn't pick up anyone here.
Speaker 7: To only one a doctor, very handy.
Speaker 2: To have a board.
Speaker 6: Now what does that mean?
Speaker 7: Well, just that we have a lady aboard, a married
lady who's very pregnant.
Speaker 2: Ooh, I hope we don't pick up any rough weather.
Speaker 6: Will you knock it off?
Speaker 2: YouTube Cassandra's and now let's get airborne before you discourage me.
Speaker 5: From the whole flight.
Speaker 2: This is flight one one three Transways Airlines. I am
at number one requesting permission for takeoff. Acknowledge one one
three Transways be applied. You are now cleared for takeoff.
Though here goes nothing. We're on our way, my happy captain,
the only way to go.
Speaker 6: Thanks Kansas and out.
Speaker 7: Any takers I need?
Speaker 10: Yes, but now you have to get the drink card
out to Scotches and butter been a stinger for the
lady in first we.
Speaker 2: Got that a stinger.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll take that one to a personally crabby old bitty.
Speaker 1: I can manner.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm going up front anyway, and is maybe the
boys want some coffee?
Speaker 1: Shall I call them?
Speaker 7: No, I need a little exercise. I want to check
on our little mother to be anyway, she is pretty
near up time, I think, Oh, not too. I hope
ever been a midwife of what?
Speaker 1: Did you ever deliver a baby?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Not me, either for myself or anyone.
Speaker 2: I think I would freak out.
Speaker 7: How that makes two of us? I hope we don't
have to find out?
Speaker 1: Are you sure? If you all right? Honey?
Speaker 7: Will you stop worrying?
Speaker 1: Free? Well, it's just maybe I.
Speaker 3: Worry we shouldn't have.
Speaker 7: Then it's a little late for that now.
Speaker 1: So I didn't mean the baby. I mean find the
sea apple.
Speaker 7: It's still too late. Everything okay with you to love bird?
Oh sure, So everything's just fine. Stuart is make it
friend where it's small enough group to be a family.
Anything I can get you?
Speaker 1: No, thanks, friend? How about you? Mister beer?
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no launches funch.
Speaker 5: He's on me, Jackie A.
Speaker 10: Worry word of the world about everything.
Speaker 5: It's just his nature.
Speaker 2: All this time, I really have something to worry about.
Speaker 7: Well, not much longer, only about an hour and a
half to Seattle. I wouldn't want anyone to be embarrassed.
I hold on until then. Oh, Jackie, she's putting you on.
Speaker 10: He bought a stop watch so he can time the
pains when they start.
Speaker 7: But don't get me wrong, I love him.
Speaker 1: That that's my execue.
Speaker 7: I've got to deliver this drink to someone. Excuse me,
and doctor McCall, isn't it why?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Oh yes, I just delivered a drink to your only companions,
the lady in the back.
Speaker 13: Is there anything I can get for you?
Speaker 2: For me?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 11: Bys in your.
Speaker 5: Seat belt, doctor, it is fast.
Speaker 7: Mind if I sit beside you for a moment.
Speaker 11: Oh not tall?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 6: Freak storm?
Speaker 7: They weren't expecting it, or the seatbelt lights would have
been up for now. Are you feeling okay?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, yes, Why well it's just their.
Speaker 1: Party in general, turbulence.
Speaker 7: We should be through it in a moment. I just
wanted to make sure you didn't feel sick.
Speaker 5: I feel sick, all right, but not from this.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: What can I say?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 5: What can anyone say?
Speaker 2: Heat would have been thirty next week from my angle,
that's where life begins.
Speaker 11: But he.
Speaker 2: Ended Pete, my son, the first time I ever flew
first class in my life.
Speaker 5: Thanks to the Air Force, they're flying Pete's.
Speaker 2: Body and the rest of his crew back for Guapa.
Speaker 5: That's when he crashed.
Speaker 2: His mother is buried in We're Notchkisy where I used
to practice. I wanted him to lie with her.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. I misunderstood about the way you were looking.
Speaker 5: That's all right if it worked for the rest of
you board. I just soon cash in my chips right here. Well,
it won't be that bad.
Speaker 2: It's just a peewee squall. We're coming out of it.
You can go on a bunch of business forget me.
Speaker 7: I guess we did blow right through it. Maybe I
should get up and see if the captain the copilot
wants to call.
Speaker 2: Do you get to traffic control yet, Doug, I'm on my
third frequency nor response where the devil are and I
couldn't have picked up what we just came through on
the radar.
Speaker 5: Search me.
Speaker 2: There's flight one one three transways to control tower.
Speaker 1: Do you read me.
Speaker 6: The breakers up?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 14: Captain, I checked, Well, what do you.
Speaker 6: Want from what happened?
Speaker 13: No warning on the fireworks came out of nowhere, no
advance from control.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we can't dig them up. Not do you want anything?
Speaker 7: No, just as long as we're off the bumps, though.
I thought you might like some coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heavy on the cream, easy on the sugar.
Speaker 3: Hug Now skip the coffee.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling a little off for feet.
Speaker 2: Holy this is flight one one three trans Waves traffic Control.
Speaker 1: Do you read me anything serious?
Speaker 2: Duck it will be we don't make contact, I'll forget it.
There's so many backups. Just it's beyond the regular frequencies.
Emergency Army, Navy Sea Rescue relayed through another plane one.
Speaker 13: No sweat, baby Frow was worried about you. You don't
look so hot, and you should feel my stomach. Look,
bring me a colar with lots of ice.
Speaker 5: Hun, Wait a.
Speaker 1: Minute, we read you loud and clear. Where the hell
have you been? We've been trying to raise you did
oh here?
Speaker 6: Now, where the devil have you been?
Speaker 2: I'm an emergency back up now and we are twenty
seven thousand, cruising speed four eight five knots, holding steady
heading two nine zero.
Speaker 6: You didn't get anything from us on the regular channels.
Speaker 2: Negative And we just came through a freak electrical storm,
didn't you picked that up on radar. That's why we
were trying to reach you. It came in from nowhere.
It's a whole front by now.
Speaker 6: Now maybe that's what not the radio asked.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of turning back, but maybe on better
off as we go. What's up ahead, CAVU on present course.
A little storm to the north over the rockies, but
you should bypass it.
Speaker 1: And we better.
Speaker 6: We got a pregnant lady aboard.
Speaker 2: I'd like to avoid any more turbulence, just in case
you want to send us.
Speaker 1: Up top stand by till I clear you standing by.
Speaker 2: Well, it looks okay now except.
Speaker 6: For you, Doug.
Speaker 5: What's the matter with me?
Speaker 6: You're a little green around the gills. It's at home
cooking or did a few buffs make years sick?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I don't know what it is.
I got the cold sweats seeing double, but it wasn't
anything I got from Helen. Maybe I should have five
passed ant bibious?
Speaker 6: What do you mean ant bibious?
Speaker 2: I can tell you. Before we took off at Florida,
I couldn't resist stopping off and having some shift on
pumpkin pie for dessert. Damn it, that's what I am.
So you're lucky it wasn't too rich for you, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna pass out of friend, Friend, I hate the lateness
on you, but.
Speaker 6: I've been having the symptoms. Dog's complaining about good Lord Captain.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 6: It can't be happening. It just couldn't be. But you'd
be to good Bay and bring that doctor up here.
Speaker 15: I feel like I can hardly move.
Speaker 6: Look at Doug, he's out here. Doc, Friend, there to
be for real, and get one of us where there's
going to.
Speaker 2: Be nobody left to land his baby. Flight one one
three trans Ways.
Speaker 6: Two Traffic Control.
Speaker 2: You read me, damn Fly one one three the Traffic
and Truck Oh you read me?
Speaker 1: Read me.
Speaker 6: Here trans see he can't be out Fly one one
three Transways reading.
Speaker 2: May day, the final and ultimate cry for help when
an aircraft is disabled or out of control. The last
word air traffic control, ever wants to hear. For once
that dread alert is sounded, everything moves with controlled pandemonium.
I'll return shortly with that two I'mheimen Brown, producer of
Radio Mystery Theater, delighted to announce the name of the
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Congratulations to missus Athelda Barrows of Melrose, Massachusetts.
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We could be announcing your names next week.
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Hello everybody, this is cousin Bruce Morrow for the Foundation Church.
Speaker 3: Now these are troubled time.
Speaker 2: Let's not have a lot of money around. Work's got
a tough to get half of these here with dissolutions,
wondering what's going to go down next.
Speaker 3: Well, it's easy to go along with it, right, I mean, just.
Speaker 6: Sit around and say, who cares?
Speaker 1: You know what the next guy?
Speaker 6: Worry about it? But does it have to be like this?
Speaker 2: Pride, dignity, truth, being straight with one another?
Speaker 3: Now, these qualities have not disappeared.
Speaker 6: They've just gone to sleep for a while, right.
Speaker 5: But now's the time to wake them up.
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What I Love at East thirty eighth Street, New York, New.
Speaker 6: York, Zip one zero zero one six.
Speaker 2: In the air, secure on automatic pilot, the Big DC
nine is a symbol of man's ability to conquer a
hostile medium, to make it his own, as safely and
sure as any bird inside this big From the cockpit aft,
the passengers have no notion of what lies ahead as yet,
But on the ground, if.
Speaker 1: The May day alert has gotten through.
Speaker 2: Control tower will be in charge. His voice calm but precise,
but underlying it the ragged edge of knowledge he shares
with every pilot who receives that man may conquer the elements,
but never wholly subdue them.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, doctor mccaller. Oh, oh, yes, Stewardess, I'm sitting
down beside you because I have no wish to alarm
the rest of the plane. You are a medical doctor,
aren't you.
Speaker 2: If I'm not, I've kept up the pretense successfully for
more years than I care say.
Speaker 7: Do you have a doctor's bag with you? By any chance?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: I don't know why, force of heaven?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 7: Yes, trouble in the cockpit. The pilot and the co
pilot seem to be in some sort of well, have
some sort of food poisoning. Could we just walk up
there casually?
Speaker 2: We better get there fast, not too fast as.
Speaker 7: A lady watching us who is volatile for one of
a better word.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get the rest of.
Speaker 7: The plane alarmed.
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
Speaker 7: I left the cabin door open.
Speaker 5: I'll keep her busy while you go forward. Whatever you say,
my dear, h they conscious.
Speaker 7: I don't know the captain was when I left.
Speaker 1: Don't worry.
Speaker 7: The plane's on automatic pilot.
Speaker 6: Well, missus Miller, did you enjoy your stinger?
Speaker 1: Perhaps you'd like a ringbeat.
Speaker 2: The scene in the control room of the plane is
enough to turn anyone's blood to water. In the co
pilot's seat, Doun Fletcher is half slumped to the floor,
out cold.
Speaker 5: In the pilot's seat to.
Speaker 2: The left, Captain Thomas is valiantly trying to fight off
his blackout, but only half oxus himself.
Speaker 6: One one, three, there see you rescue?
Speaker 1: Do you do you read?
Speaker 2: I'm a doctor, Captain. What's trouble?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 5: Pain in the stuffach here? I want to throw up,
but I can.
Speaker 6: Let's see the devil.
Speaker 2: I can't keep my eyelids from clothing, I said.
Speaker 5: Look the same with your co pilot. Yes, did you heat.
Speaker 2: Together before you're left on this flight?
Speaker 11: I know?
Speaker 2: But both have the same pie in Miami place called
anne babies before them can shift from And it doesn't
sound so lethal.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm afraid.
Speaker 5: I'm a friend.
Speaker 1: How are they doctor?
Speaker 5: What's your name again?
Speaker 1: Friend?
Speaker 2: Okay, friend, I ain't got to make a snap diagnosis.
And damn little lip from a looks like we have
a couple of cases of botulism.
Speaker 1: And what's that?
Speaker 2: That's kind of food poisoning that affects the nervous system.
Speaker 5: And both of them are in coma and.
Speaker 2: There's some toxins that might be helpful, but I don't
have them in my bag. The best we're going to
do is get plenty of cold towels and hope that we.
Speaker 5: Can bring one of them out of it. If we don't,
we are in real trouble.
Speaker 7: Any idea of our eta about midnights, Seattle time.
Speaker 5: That's about an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: It's about well.
Speaker 5: The first thing is to try to save these boys.
Speaker 2: Can you call back on the intercom to one of
the other hostesses and get some ice and play it towels? Yes, sir, First,
help me move the captain out of the floor.
Speaker 1: He know what you want to control. Take a deep
breath on you. Sound like he's bad enough news for
me to.
Speaker 9: Possibly or outn't good, but I'm counting on you.
Speaker 5: You put it that way from you can come.
Speaker 9: Oh, we have much of trouble up front, but we
don't want to get the passengers panicked.
Speaker 5: Sure, but kay, you what goes?
Speaker 9: We need all the ice and towels we can get
up front, use the drink card of the cover and
come through as fast as you can.
Speaker 1: Mob and Kady.
Speaker 5: Leave it the way there is.
Speaker 1: Are you all right, baby?
Speaker 7: I'm fine. Why fred, I don't know.
Speaker 6: You seem to be sort of squirming around.
Speaker 14: That isn't me.
Speaker 10: It's your first born.
Speaker 2: He comes to hostess with a Cartno, he wants some
milk or something.
Speaker 7: You're sun and air may be active, but he's not
quite ready.
Speaker 2: For that yet.
Speaker 1: What what milk?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Jackie. I get the notion you're working
me over. Maybe we shouldn't have taken this trip.
Speaker 5: Why not because you resent it.
Speaker 2: I just thought, you know, want first baby and all
you'd be safer in Seattle with mom and then all
alone in Kansas City.
Speaker 7: I wasn't exactly alone there.
Speaker 5: Well, you didn't have any kids. Hope to help us.
Speaker 7: Did it ever occur to you, I'd just like to
have my baby by myself.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's my baby too, Sure it is.
Speaker 7: You've just got to excuse us.
Speaker 10: Uptight females at the end of the pregnancy roots we
forget it's anything but just us.
Speaker 5: In junior, you're the only two the count and you.
Speaker 1: First cheer up.
Speaker 7: Honey, everything's going to be all right. I was thinking
about something cold to drink, but we missed the boat,
or I should say cards. Deanez is already all the
way through the first class.
Speaker 6: I could go and get us.
Speaker 7: No, no, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: So I'll catch her to find the way back.
Speaker 7: Who dene's with the towels and ice them?
Speaker 10: Let me in quick, big nose. There are smelling trouble.
Who the lady with the singers?
Speaker 5: She doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Help me and the.
Speaker 7: Doctor get some cold towels.
Speaker 1: On the captain and Doug.
Speaker 5: You are fast out.
Speaker 1: I hope that's all.
Speaker 5: Then who is flying the plane?
Speaker 7: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: It's no use. Girls, they're in deep coma.
Speaker 1: Can't you bring them out of it?
Speaker 5: I doubt it. Then we get them hospitalized.
Speaker 2: If then they are not going to die from food
poisoning botuism, that may be academic. Unless we figure out
some way to land this plane. Either you pilots, no,
not me.
Speaker 5: Are we dead heading any back?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: No jet the manifesto, I've had it right here. None
of our pilots, anyone on the list who flies?
Speaker 1: I doubt it?
Speaker 5: No, So that leaves me.
Speaker 7: You're a pilot.
Speaker 2: And in the manner of speaking, before my wife died,
when we lived in Wenatchki, I used to share beat
up old Cherokee one prop plane with another doctor, the
only way to get to patients in outlying areas.
Speaker 5: I guess that's what got Pete all strung out on
the fly.
Speaker 3: Oh that was small potatoes.
Speaker 5: It's over six years since I touched the controls.
Speaker 3: What can I do with this?
Speaker 7: Somebody's got to do something, not only to save the
captain in duct lives, but thirty four more of us,
including you.
Speaker 5: Well, what do we got to lose?
Speaker 2: You keep those coal towels on, the captain on the floor,
and I will leave the coal pilot in a seat.
Speaker 5: To save room.
Speaker 1: Duck.
Speaker 2: Oh this maze the forest prime ehle, All right, give
you the headphones.
Speaker 5: Now, where's radio in this mess?
Speaker 1: Right here?
Speaker 7: Doctor, But they were having trouble with the regular frequencies.
Speaker 5: What's it set on now?
Speaker 7: I don't know Army Air Rescue.
Speaker 5: So let's see what we can raise. Hello, Hello, anyone,
can you call me?
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? We are receiving identify yourself? Please?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, this is doctor Sam McCall.
Speaker 1: We are awaiting identification.
Speaker 3: I just told you this is.
Speaker 2: I guess I have to remember to press down the
button on.
Speaker 1: The wheel for you to hear me. On we can
hear your reply. What did you say?
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what did you say?
Speaker 2: But oh, to explain to you that to receive us
you must release the red button on the wheel, and
to transmit you must press it.
Speaker 1: Down over it to you. I get it. Then what
do you identify?
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm doctor Sam McCall, but Pete McCall's father.
Speaker 1: You go, my son, very well, but that doesn't matter
for the moment. When do you identify your aircraft?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, this is flight what's the number one.
Speaker 7: One three Transways Airlines? And as you hang in here,
I'm going back to check the.
Speaker 2: Passengers the flight one one three Transways Airlines.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, you're the may.
Speaker 3: Day that's us, brother.
Speaker 1: Well can you give us your position?
Speaker 2: All right, I can try, but with this maze of instruments,
I'm not familiar with them. Where are your pilots both
in a coma botulism poisoning.
Speaker 1: Any chance they'll be out of it within the next
hour and.
Speaker 2: A half hard to tell, I'd say, kind of doubtful.
Speaker 3: They both hit so bad it's a toss.
Speaker 2: Up where they can hold out against respiratory paralysis.
Speaker 1: And there's no other qualified commercial pilot aboard. That's right.
Speaker 2: The only guy ever flew anything as me, and then
it was just a little over one lung Cherokee prop.
You flew by the seat of your pants.
Speaker 1: You can fly a Jeroche, you can fly a DC nine.
Speaker 2: You're going to have to teach me, brother, and I
sure hope you can in the next hour and a half,
because if you don't tell me how to bring it down,
I guess we're just going to head out over the
Pacific till we run out of.
Speaker 3: Gas and drop into the sea.
Speaker 2: A situation to challenge the worst nightmare you ever dreamed.
Behind him are over thirty people depending on him for
their lives. Facing him is a mass of instruments, dials, switches, buttons,
and levers, most of them unfamiliar to him, which control
one hundred plus tons of airplane that he must put
down on the ground safely within a short span of
ninety minutes. I shall return as soon as I can
with Act three, like a carnival to.
Speaker 11: The mind of the good.
Speaker 1: Big Summers.
Speaker 11: I'd like to play hide and see.
Speaker 2: When you get cool pats where.
Speaker 5: They're They're around the corner.
Speaker 11: We need fight.
Speaker 1: S.
Speaker 4: It's happy eating at the Sonic Drive in at twelve
ten West Miller Road in Garland, because tonic in summertime,
go together.
Speaker 7: And.
Speaker 14: Oh, great spirit voice and the winds here, who's reaped?
Speaker 2: You have life to all the world hear me.
Speaker 17: The voice is parnized code of the Cherokee Nation. The
words are a prayer for spoken four hundred years.
Speaker 5: Ago by his people, of people who loved the land.
Speaker 14: Make me walk, and you make my heart respect all
you have made. Make me wise that I may know
all you have fought, my people, the lesson who have
hid in every rock.
Speaker 1: In some Americans.
Speaker 17: Today, that spirit is reborn throughout the land. Areas of
buttless litter and pollution are being restored to their natural beauty.
And yet we still have so far to go. So
everyone must get involved. To contact the Keep America.
Speaker 6: Beautiful team there, ist you right.
Speaker 17: Keep America Beautiful, ninety nine Park Avenue, New York, New York.
People start pollution and people can stop it.
Speaker 12: A public service message in this station and the advertising Council.
Speaker 1: He sits in the cockpit of.
Speaker 2: A four engine jet monster, thirty one thousand feet above
the ground alone, a sixty five year old man who
joined this flight with nothing but death on his mind.
Doctor Sam McCall widower, now flying to pick up the
coffin and the body of his pilot's son who died
tragically in a crash on Guam. Now suddenly, by a
massive wrench of fate, he is thrown back into the
stream of life.
Speaker 1: Because he is the only person aboard who.
Speaker 2: Can fly this plane, and landing it safely depends on
the quiet voice in his headphones.
Speaker 1: Now, did you locate the altimeter? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have it.
Speaker 1: What does it read?
Speaker 3: Thirty ten?
Speaker 1: Good? Good?
Speaker 2: Now you're at thirty one thousand and that is your
altitude until further instructions.
Speaker 1: Look at the instrument panel.
Speaker 3: I hate too, it scares the hell out of me.
Speaker 2: Here's the bank and turn indicator, and this looks like
it could be the airspeed indicator.
Speaker 1: So just take it easy, Doc, you've got this thing licked.
You know enough about it?
Speaker 2: Okay, Doc confirm Hey, I like the doc part too.
Something about having a mad makes me feel more at home.
Speaker 1: Do I get one for you, affirmative. This is Colonel Blake.
Speaker 2: Okay, Colonel, we'll use our titles.
Speaker 3: I want to fly this crazy.
Speaker 1: That's a breeze. Doc.
Speaker 2: To just look down and you'll see the rudder pedals.
Put your feet on them. Now look for your airspeed indicator,
then get familiar with it. That's the one left of
the circles dead ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: And above that is your climb and dive indicator. I
see it.
Speaker 2: Directly to your right are stabilizer and trim leverie. Now
you come to your throttles.
Speaker 1: They should be set at cruising speed. What is your
ear speed indicator? Read?
Speaker 3: I have four eighty five roger.
Speaker 2: That's right where she should be. Now the pedestal, those
are the yellow throttles. The forward increases your speed jack
jack a back decreases right right right, But they must
be coordinated and gentle. Now do you locate the automatic
pilot switch. It's up there on the console over.
Speaker 1: Your head to the right slightly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a kernel.
Speaker 2: Now you are ready to fly the plane. Doc, I
no sweat. You've flown before.
Speaker 1: This baby's just a little bit bigger. Now, hands on
the wheel, feet on the runners, reach forward and flip
off automatic shake what she lurks?
Speaker 3: Tona, Now that's to be expected.
Speaker 1: You now have control of the aircraft keeper just as
she is. Watch your climb and dive indicator. Watch your
air speed, hold it steady. How's she coming? Brother?
Speaker 3: What a difference. I can feel every ton of her
sluggish heavy.
Speaker 1: Don't let her fool you, George, Sure she feels different
from a Cherokee. But remember, Doc, all.
Speaker 2: Controls are on serble mechanism, the reacting you know, from
the slightest.
Speaker 1: Touch, and like power controls in a car. And we're
gonna let you feel that out very very gently. We're
gonna have you descend a little.
Speaker 3: Okay, Doc, you're the boss, kind of just.
Speaker 1: You take over. So rip the four knobs in the center.
We're going to ease up on the throttle. Not so fast, easy,
ease it off. You notice it's getting quiet. Now easy,
push forward slowly on the wheel.
Speaker 5: Boy, she responds, quick, full.
Speaker 1: Back, all back Now the ease forward again. You notice
she's going quiet? Yeah, I don't like it. That's the
way she goes. Now push forward on the wheel easy, easy.
Speaker 3: She's getting away from me. Took it right out of
my head. But yeah, I am. But she's buffing like
a street.
Speaker 1: You're over correcting.
Speaker 2: Easy, he does it, member, Doc, It's just to touch
the Serbo mechanism.
Speaker 1: Does all rest bring your nose down will come. That's
a comforting old word.
Speaker 2: It's all scary, real scary. You don't know if I
can make it.
Speaker 1: You can cut it, Doc.
Speaker 2: As soon as we get you up top again, we're
gonna dry banking left and right a little, just.
Speaker 1: So you have the plane well in hand.
Speaker 3: What is a Jackie baby? The baby?
Speaker 8: I'm afraid, Yes, it's so near.
Speaker 1: Peans romans every minute.
Speaker 6: Oh oh lord, what are we gonna do.
Speaker 7: I'll try to hold on, honestly I will, But.
Speaker 2: Stewardess, friends, it's Jackie's my wife, she's having the baby.
Speaker 5: Can't help me?
Speaker 7: Get these seatbacks down in front, stretch her out.
Speaker 1: I'll get blankets and.
Speaker 13: As yes plan, get up to the cockpit.
Speaker 7: And tell doctor missus Pearce's baby is coming. I'll do
my best to handle it. I'll try not to bother him,
but I might have to call for instructions on the intercom. Sure, sure,
so get going, Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me, please,
there is no reason for panic. The plane is in
good hands.
Speaker 9: I want to get all of.
Speaker 7: Us as far back towards the tail as we can.
Everyone find their life jackets and inflate them as instructed
when we were taking off.
Speaker 1: We have a lady who is.
Speaker 13: About to deliver her child.
Speaker 7: I'm asking you to the rear as much for her
privacy as for any other reason. We are all going
to be all right. If the Good Lord grants us
a new somebody into the world, he sure doesn't plan
to take.
Speaker 1: All the rest of us out of it. Excuse me, doctor, how.
Speaker 5: Is it going?
Speaker 11: Not so bad?
Speaker 5: Now? Back on automatic and taking a little rest. How's
everything back there?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 5: Not bad, not good?
Speaker 13: I mean, Frank.
Speaker 5: She asked me to tell you.
Speaker 10: She is handling it, but she might have to call
by the intercom in case because there's a lady having
a baby.
Speaker 5: Oh that's nice. Oh, try to set it down easy
as I can. When does it do?
Speaker 2: I I don't know exactly when.
Speaker 1: But he's on the way right now, in the midst.
Speaker 5: Of death, we are in life? Or is the other
way around?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 5: Does fran know what to do? I don't know.
Speaker 1: She said she would do her best.
Speaker 2: But what's that intercom? You you throw this switch here?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Hello, hello, doctor, it's Frank.
Speaker 2: Everything okay up there for the moment.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry to bother you, but I have a problem.
Speaker 6: The lady who's giving birth.
Speaker 9: Yes, the baby is coming, but it's positioned.
Speaker 11: The wrong way.
Speaker 3: Breach birth. Look, you can't handle that. I'll tell you what.
We have an odd twenty five minutes to play around with.
Hold everything, I'll be right back.
Speaker 6: Flight one one.
Speaker 3: Three to Control.
Speaker 1: I am receiving you.
Speaker 3: Well, how much time do I have before we start
to send approaching?
Speaker 1: Twenty five or thirty minutes?
Speaker 2: All right, then I hang on till I get back
to you. Before I try to land this plane. I
got to do something I really know about it. I've
got to go deliver a baby. This is flight one
thirteen of my term to control.
Speaker 1: We have you, Doc, how's the baby?
Speaker 2: A fine boy? Kind of makes up a little for
my own. How do we stand? You're ready to get
off automatic and commence descent at four.
Speaker 1: Hundred and eighty five knots. You should be coming down
at fifteen hundred feet per.
Speaker 2: Minute, Roger, I'm now commencing dissent. Very good. Now, all
that descent rate to eighteen hundred feet a minute, and
then we'll go into landing approach.
Speaker 3: Funny thing, Colonel, what's that?
Speaker 1: Doctor?
Speaker 2: I just accomplished something very difficult.
Speaker 6: Bringing one life into the world.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm a successful in keeping thirty seven lives
protected that are already here. We're now coming in on
your final approach. The descent is fine. How do you feel?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm okay, going a little fast?
Speaker 1: Fat?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, okay, all right, now we lower the wheels.
Speaker 1: You you remember the exercise.
Speaker 2: Affirm, pull out rear lever and push down. Watch for
three green lights indicating wheels down.
Speaker 11: I have the green.
Speaker 1: Okay, the landing gear is down. We have you in sight.
Now give her some throttle as the gear slows you down.
Speaker 2: I feel the drag boys from Watch the flap indicator.
Speaker 3: You remember, yeah, I remember? Ten degrees of flaps at it?
Confirm Roger older there.
Speaker 1: Maintain air speed at one twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Maintaining speed.
Speaker 1: You're doing fine. To keep your feet on the pedals.
Keep her knives to the level. Again, you see the runway,
I see you. All right? All right now, maintain all configurations.
You're doing just fine. Doctors fine, we like them. Come
as easy as you are.
Speaker 3: I'm getting awful close.
Speaker 1: Just keep your nose up. Watch the air speed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's drop ten twenty.
Speaker 1: That's that's all right. You know you're slowing her up
and you're in So get your brakes and.
Speaker 2: Drop your nose a firm Hey, she's joy on your rudder. Firm,
hold your attitude.
Speaker 1: Keep back you back, hard, back, keep back you up
back much hard on those breaks, not push hard? Should
I reverse?
Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, No, steady on the rudder pedals, keep that
nose down, Give it all you have on the.
Speaker 11: Brakes, radium radies.
Speaker 1: That's all your son asked for. Signing off now talking,
turning you over.
Speaker 2: The plane is down, and in the operations office of
the airport, the hero of the hour has been sequestered
in blessed relief from all the hoopla and excitement by
the airport director. Anything I can get you a drink
or something, doctor.
Speaker 5: Bed mainly.
Speaker 2: First, I've got some thank yous to dispense.
Speaker 5: Was it you who talked me down?
Speaker 2: I don't understand with somebody on ground communications landed that
big crate without damage.
Speaker 5: Not me, who's on the horn with me all the
way in? Well, nobody, what do you mean nobody? I
was talking to myself.
Speaker 2: All I mean is that out of Kansas City everyone
lost contact with flight one P one three as far
as we're concerned on the ground. Only one man set
her down, Doctor Sam McCall, Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Colonel Blake was the one who monitored every move I made.
If it wasn't for him, me and everyone aboard, including.
Speaker 5: The new young man, would have been gone.
Speaker 2: Geese, I couldn't have landed that skyscraper by myself. You'd
say you were in radio contact all the way for
sure with Colonel Blake, Colonel Jackson Blake.
Speaker 5: I never did get his first name. Well, why you
know him?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: No, not personally, but well he was the pilot of
the plane in which your son crashed and all personnel
were lost.
Speaker 5: He said he knew my son Pete. You trying to
say he was dead all the time.
Speaker 2: Well, the only thing I know is that right beside
your son Pete's coffin is one that contains a Colonel Blake.
Speaker 1: And your radio was out cold.
Speaker 6: But no one else could have talked you down.
Speaker 3: What can you add to that?
Speaker 1: An elderly man.
Speaker 2: Who hadn't touched a plane control in six years and
then only a single engine, landed several tons of modern
multi engine jets by himself in radio silent or was
there some other forces beyond that which brought him home.
Speaker 5: You make up your minds.
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1: When you get before the real pay for the suns
where they're.
Speaker 11: There.
Speaker 1: Ride around the corner by here.
Speaker 4: It's happy eating at the Sonic Drive in in Stephenville,
because Sonic in summertime, go to get.
Speaker 3: I won't vouch for the story you just heard.
Speaker 2: It's part and parcel of many legends.
Speaker 3: There was a whole crew who got poisoned.
Speaker 6: Eating key lime pie.
Speaker 2: There is a story of the radio operator of a
sunken aircraft carrier who talked a plane home.
Speaker 6: Tale of a dead son who brought his father down,
and so on and so on.
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Earl Hammond, Richard Seth, and Hetty Galen. The entire production
was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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