Airport (film)
Overview
 
Airport is a 1970 American film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey
Arthur Hailey
Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist.- Biography :Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Hailey's last novel, Detective , is a mystery told from the perspective of a...

 novel of the same name. This film, which earned more than $100,000,000 equivalent to $558 million today (2010), focuses on an airport
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 manager trying to keep his airport open during a snow storm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a four-engine narrow-body commercial passenger jet airliner developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Its name is most commonly pronounced as "Seven Oh Seven". The first airline to operate the 707 was Pan American World Airways, inaugurating the type's first commercial flight on...

 airliner in flight. The story takes place at the fictional Lincoln International Airport near Chicago.
 
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