Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (also known as Lost in the Wild and Race Against The Dark[1]) is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film starring Lindsay Wagner and Robert Loggia. It was aired on CBS on November 23, 1993. It is set in Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico.

Lost in the Wild
Also known asNurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
Race Against The Dark
GenreAdventure
Drama
Written byAndrew Laskos
Norman Morrill
Directed byLarry Shaw
StarringLindsay Wagner
Robert Loggia
Jennifer Lopez
David Clennon
Farrah Forke
Paula Marshall
Theme music composerCurt Sobel
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersJohn Cosgrove
Terry Dunn Meurer
Carrie Stein
ProducersJohn Perrin Flynn
Lorenzo O'Brien
Production locationsCatemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
Los Angeles
CinematographyRobert Primes
EditorScott Vickrey
Running time87 min.
Production companiesCosgrove/Meurer Productions
World International Network
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseNovember 23, 1993 (1993-11-23)

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A couple of student nurses decide to join some doctors to work in a medical station in the rain-forest a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town Catemaco. As they fly from Catemaco towards the clinic (which actually consists of just a few huts and almost no equipment) one of their three planes goes down because of engine malfunction. It crashes somewhere in the middle of the jungle causing bad injuries to the passengers. The following day describes the attempts by the passengers to save their own lives in spite of the few poor chances they seem to have. There is almost no medicine available, the supplies they brought with them were all on the plane going down and were stolen by native drug-dealers when they arrived at the site of the crash first. In the afternoon they decide to take the injured to a nearby village with a runway long enough that the Learjet of the Californian Air Rescue team could take them to a clinic in the U.S. Not only is the journey there very complicated (one of the injured could pass away any minute) but it may also be futile: due to recent anti-drug operations no plane is allowed to fly after dark, so the Air Rescue Team is not able to get clearance for their mission. Dr. Daniel Perrin sets off to Catamaco to persuade the authorities into giving their permission for the flight while the rest is trying to get to the runway by dawn.

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References

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  1. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 4 November 1995. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
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