Film Versions
Over the years, the film has been re-titled and several versions of it exist.
- Version 1: Death Flight
This cut of the film has been screened twice on RTÉ in Ireland in recent years. It has a scene after the take-off sequence which garnered the film an 'MA' programme classification tag by RTÉ. The scene in question involves Bert Convy and Misty Rowe depicted in the lower galley of the jet where Rowe's character Angela Garland questions Convy's character about whether or not he had a vasectomy. During this scene, Convy's character removes Rowe's dress, exposing her breasts. Another scene just before this one has a slightly alternate take-off where there is a different shot of the plane ascending into the skies used. Instead of it swooping down and leveling off and then the picture going to a fade-out and resuming back to a shot of the plane in the skies, it just climbs directly into the skies and there is no fade-out and no shot of it leveling off.
- Version 2: SST- Death Flight
This cut of the film is a re-cut of sorts. It has a take-off sequence consisting of the plane lifting off the ground and leveling off, then a fade-out and the film resumes with a shot of the plane in the skies and the scene with Anne Redding and Paul Whitley meeting on board the jet. This version of the film was used for the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 showing and is considered by many to be the most 'family-friendly' and daytime television appropriate cut of the film.
- Version 3: SST Disaster In The Sky
This is the same cut as Version 2, only the scene of the plane leveling off, followed by a fade-out fade-in is present. The fade-in is accompanied by the shot of the plane ascending along with the footage of the pilots changing altitude, which is present in Version 1, is restored here to the film. The scene of Misty Rowe and Bert Convy in the lower galley has be re-filmed for this version. The same scene is present, only there are no scenes involving nudity, but other than that, it remains exactly the same.
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