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Cone of Silence (film)
''Cone of Silence'' is a 1960 British drama film directed by Charles Frend and starring Michael Craig, Peter Cushing and Bernard Lee. The film is about the investigation into a series of crashes involving the fictional "Atlas Aviation Phoenix" jetliner. ''Cone of Silence'' is loosely based on the 1952 crash in Rome and investigations into the structural integrity of the de Havilland Comet.〔("Cone of Silence (1960)." ) ''Britmovie.com.'' Retrieved: 21 November 2011.〕The film was based on David Beaty's novel, ''Cone of Silence'' (1959), later renamed ''Trouble in the Sky'', the title of the film, as released in the United States.
==Plot==
Captain George Gort (Bernard Lee) is a pilot for British Empire Airways, flying their route London - Rome - Cairo - Ranjibad - Calcutta - Singapore. He has been found to be at fault after crashing his Phoenix 1 jetliner on takeoff from Ranjibad airport, killing his co-pilot. He is accused of rotating too early, increasing drag to such an extent that the aircraft cannot achieve flying speed.
Gort is reprimanded but is allowed to return to flying the Phoenix after a check flight under Captain Hugh Dallas (Michael Craig). Meanwhile, Gort's daughter Charlotte (Elizabeth Seal) refuses to believe he is at fault. Gort's flying skills are again called into question when an approach to Calcutta is apparently made dangerously low, causing the aircraft to hit a hedge just before the runway threshold. It is later discovered that there was no hedge at the threshold of the Calcutta runway, and that the piece of hedge wrapped round the undercarriage leg had actually come from Ranjibad, where the aircraft had been taken off by Captain Clive Judd (Peter Cushing) - this shows that Gort is not the only pilot to have problems taking off.
Gort is later involved in a second crash, this time killing all on board. The crash is remarkably similar to the first - both involve a fully loaded aircraft on a hot night, taking off under Captain Gort from the same runway at Ranjibad airport. Dallas eventually discovers that the aircraft's designer had deliberately withheld information on potential take-off difficulties in hot conditions. A third crash is avoided by seconds when a crew about to take off are contacted by Air Traffic Control, and told to add eight knots to all unstick speed and keep the nosewheel on the ground until just before unstick speed is reached.
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