Overview
Crash Landing (aka Rescue at Sea) is a 1958 American dramatic disaster film directed by Fred F. Sears starring Gary Merrill and Nancy Davis.
This was the last film in which Nancy Reagan (billed as Nancy Davis) appeared, though she continued to work in television for some years thereafter. It was one of the last films of director Fred Sears who died of a heart attack after filming completed.
Crash Landing was based on Pan Am Flight 6, a real-life ditching at sea.
Opening narration by Fred F. Sears
"This is Transatlantic Flight Six-Two-Seven. Flight of origination Lisbon, Portugal... destination New York, USA. Crew... six, including two stewardesses. Passengers... twenty-five... ten first class... fifteen tourist. Men fifteen... women eight... one little boy and an infant. In command... Captain Steven Williams... hours in the air... fifteen thousand four hundred and twenty-one, engineer... Howard Whitney, co-pilot... John Smithback, navigator... Jed Sutton. Between eternity and the thirty-one persons aboard... a one-inch envelope of metal and four man-made engines."
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).