Terror in the Sky is a
1971 television movie based on
Arthur Hailey's book,
Runway Zero-Eight. It stars
Doug McClure,
Lois Nettleton,
Roddy McDowall,
Leif Erickson,
Kenneth Tobey, and
Keenan Wynn. Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest (
Winnipeg in the book) to
Seattle (
Vancouver in the book) get sick after eating the fish entree. Both pilots also ate fish. A man who hasn't flown since the war (helicopters in the movie, single-engine planes in the book) is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes a rotten, but survivable landing. The theme was later used in
Airplane!.