But when a storm rolls directly into the path of the flight, killing communication with air traffic control, Kari realizes that other contact must be made, direct with Doug, or else the pharmacist and his family will not survive the flight.Ī cursory Google search didn’t produce a detailed enough account to determine how faithful this film is to the event that inspired it, but even taking its depiction at face value, what’s remarkable about “On a Wing and a Prayer” is how lazily it reduces some profound personal, professional and spiritual epiphanies to bullet points in a checklist of “uplifting” clichés and dramatic pivots. But in a last-ditch effort to find a solution, aspiring controller Dan Favio (Myers) makes a cellular call from inside the center - a federal offense - to connect with Kari (Metcalfe), an experienced pilot living in Connecticut who also knows the plane that Doug is flying, but is also carrying the weight of another plane crash in his past.Īfter Kari agrees to help by passing information through Dan to the flight official in touch with Doug, both the Whites and flight officials begin to breathe a sigh of relief. With nominal experience behind the yoke, Doug promptly panics, and air traffic control prepares for the worst the likeliest outcome is a crashed plane and multiple lives lost, especially without any experienced pilots available to coach him. But only minutes into the flight back to Louisiana after the service, the pilot of their private plane succumbs to a fatal heart attack. Jeff dies days later, and the Whites travel to Florida for the funeral, where Doug experiences such a crisis of faith from the loss that he can’t even speak publicly about his brother.
Quaid personifies flop sweat as White, a Louisiana pharmacist who brings his brother Jeff (Rice) along on his pilot lesson - to heckle him, apparently - before the two of them, aided by his wife Terri’s (Graham) sauce, take first prize in a barbecue cook-off.
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