It's common knowledge that 9-1-1 borrows ideas for its opening emergencies from popular movies or headlines. Season 8 saw the show pay homage to Airport 1975 after Athena (Angela Bassett) became ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) is now home to a 1975 model plane that was originally built in celebration of the United States’ bicentennial. The unveiling took ...

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A work of art given to the city of Grand Rapids more than four decades ago has a new home. A model airplane, called “Flying Colors of the United States,” made by ...

During the last three months of 1974, three all-star-cast “disaster” movies drew fans to U.S. theaters. Airport 1975, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno were each rousing successes. Another film ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Dec. 30, 1975. This story was written by Michael Oreskes, Patrick Doyle and Harry Stathos.) A powerful bomb ripped through a baggage area crowded with ...