Airport '90

Airport '90
Episode	Season 2, Episode 12
Summary	Helen decides to take flying lessons from Joe but his classes are too long and boring so Brian offers to let her fly the plane. Shortly after, Brian is injured and Helen finds herself behind the controls.
Air Date	January 3, 1991
Writer	Bruce Rasmussen
Director	Noam Pitlik
Previous	A Terminal Christmas
Next	Love Is Like Pulling Teeth

Airport '90 is the twelfth episode of the second season on Wings and the 18th episode overall in the series.

Synopsis

• Coming Up

Credits

Main Cast

• Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
• Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
• Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
• Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
• Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
• David Schramm as Roy Biggins

Guest Cast

• Rascal as Brutus
• Elizabeth Ince as Cathy Windsor
• Ralph Bruneau as Walter

Quotes

• Joe Hackett - "Brian, are you ok?"
  Brian Hackett - "Yeah, my head's still sore. I banged it pretty bad."
  Joe Hackett - "Well, you take care of yourself. I want you strong and healthy when I beat your brains out."

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• Helen Chapel - "I know what I did was wrong, Joe, I'm sorry! Please, just don't yell at me! Don't yell at me--"
  [Joe pulls her into a long, deep kiss]
  Helen Chapel - "I guess I deserved that."

Trivia

• The title of this episode is a play on Airport '77, a 1977 American air disaster film and the third installment of the Airport film series including Airport (1970) and Airport 1975 (1974).
  • One of the stars of the Airport film series, George Kennedy, later appears in the series in Season Seven's What About Larry?.
• This episode is the first appears the interior of the Air Traffic Control Tower and Walter.