It is followed by the failure of the two engines and the complete shutdown of the instruments. The 767 is still far from that airport when an alarm suddenly sounds, indicating they are nearly out of fuel. Quintal revisits the notepad used by the ground crew in Montréal and discovers they loaded 20,345 pounds (instead of kilograms) of fuel, less than half what they should have. Later, another pump failure is signaled and the crew realizes that their problem is not with the fuel pumps, which are working. After activating the cross-feeding valve between the tanks, the alarm stops. Their conversation is suddenly interrupted by a series of beeps indicating a failure in one of the fuel pumps. After a delay, the passengers board flight 174, including Rick Dion (Winston Rekert), the airline's chief mechanic, as well as his wife and three-year-old boy.Īfter takeoff, Dion visits the pilots the flight deck. Their Flight Management Computer will constantly indicate the quantity on board. The two airmen feel uneasy about their 767 having an inoperative fuel gauge but are somewhat reassured to see the ground crew measuring the quantity of fuel in the tanks: 20,345 kg, or so they believe, more than enough to take them to Edmonton. Elsewhere in Montréal, First Officer Maurice Quintal (Scott Hylands) reluctantly agrees to cover for an injured colleague, leaving behind his terminally ill wife. Meanwhile, Beth Pearson (Mariette Hartley) drives her husband, Captain Robert Pearson (William Devane), to the airport, unusually anxious about hosting her in-laws later that day. This is the first aircraft in the fleet to use the metric system and they make a terrible conversion error. Two years earlier, on July 23, 1983, at Dorval Airport in Montreal, the ground crew of Canada World Airways struggles to convert gallons into liters and pounds into kilograms as they prepare to refuel a brand-new Boeing 767 bound for Edmonton. The airline pilots protest to the examiner that such a scenario could never happen. In a flight simulator, an airliner experiences a sudden and complete loss of power, causing it to crash. Set in 1983, the film follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, from the preparations for departure to the emergency landing on an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between. Based on the events of Air Canada Flight 143, the film stars William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack and Mariette Hartley. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174) is a 1995 Canadian thriller film directed by Jorge Montesi.

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