Désastre à la centrale 7

Original title: Disaster at Silo 7

TV Movie
1988
Not Rated
1h 36m

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A fuel leak inside an ICBM silo creates a dangerous situation that sends the local military and civilian authorities into a panic.A fuel leak inside an ICBM silo creates a dangerous situation that sends the local military and civilian authorities into a panic.A fuel leak inside an ICBM silo creates a dangerous situation that sends the local military and civilian authorities into a panic.

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5.3/10

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total

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8/10

Good but one part wasn't made clear.

I thought this was pretty good - scary that an actual event inspired this. One part I didn't understand was the soldier who was one of the ones that went in the silo and then it blew up, told major Hicks he gave the order to go in and turn the switch. Unless I missed something the radio transmission was crackling and messed up where the one who went back in assumed they said turn the switch. The wounded soldier acted like major Hicks was trying to blame it on his friend (who died) when he really wasn't doing that he just wanted to know why he was telling the military that he gave the order when I don't think he did. Maybe i missed it but the radio transmitter was definitely messing up when the guy with Hicks told the guy something but it wasn't clear. I just thought it was odd the show didn't make that clear and gave the impression the wounded soldier was right in being mad at Manor Hicks who would probably get blamed by the higher ups and he did nothing wrong.

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Based on a true story. On September 18, 1980, a Titan II ICBM inside Silo 374-7 of the US Air Force's 308th Strategic Missile Wing, located outside of Damascus, Arkansas, suffered a fuel leak due to a dropped socket wrench which struck and pierced the missile's skin. The missile exploded as two Propellant Transfer System airmen, Sgt. Jeff Kennedy and Sr. Airman David Livingston, were attempting to vent the leaking fuel and potentially save the missile. SrA Livingston died of his injuries. Sgt. Kennedy and twenty other airmen were injured in the blast. The nine-megaton W53 warhead was ejected from the missile and was found outside the complex with minimal damage. Jeff Kennedy was a technical advisor for this film.

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The movie takes place at a Titan II missile silo in East Texas, surrounded by desert and scrub brush. For one, East Texas is dense forest, not desert. Second, there were never any Titan II silos in Texas. The actual 1980 incident occurred in Arkansas, and the film was shot at the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, which is the only fully-intact Titan II complex still in existence.