Alternate Version
As was common with Universal Pictures films at the time like Earthquake and Two-Minute Warning, a television version of the film was prepared with a great deal of new footage, in order to air Airport '77 as two separate two-hour installments (with commercials). Unlike those films, which had new material shot with new actors adding unrelated subplots, Airport '77 added an hour of material shot during production with the film's stars. Numerous scenes were added and extended, and flashbacks were shot for most of the characters to show their lives back home, which they contemplated as the plane rested at the bottom of the ocean. The extended version aired on television many times, but has never been released on commercial video/DVD.
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