The Twilight Zone: The Odyssey of Flight 33 (1961)
Season 2, Episode 18
7/10
A hole in the sky
19 March 2014
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** On what first is a non eventful non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the spring of 1961 Flight 33 runs into what seems like a jet-stream accelerating it's speed to almost 3,000 mph. What's strange is that it's in fact flying at its normal 400 mph but the air that it's flying though is as much as ten times as fast! With the plane's Captain Farver, John Anderson, not being able to make heads or tails in what he and his plane is going through and at the same time trying to keep the passengers from panicking he decides to make a low level flight over Manhattan Island and finds to his surprise he had traveled back in time to the age of dinosaurs!

It takes a wile for Captain Farver and his crew to realize that Flight33 had somehow broken through the time barrier and with fuel running low he aims the plane into the same jet-stream in order to get back to the present before the plane crashes! Sure enough Captain Fraver does get caught into the mysterious Jet-stream and goes back into the future, the future after 60.000.000 B.C, but falls some 20 years short of his target 1961! Ending up flying his plane over Flushing Medows but this time it's 1939 the year of the New York World's Fair! Insteasd of landing and saving himself and his passengers & crew the Captain decides to give it just one more try and thus ends up, with his plane almost out of fuel, in danger of getting lost forever in a time and space black hole or crashing, in whatever time period he's in, into the dark and endless reaches of the "Twilight Zone".

P.S A lot like the real life episode of the now missing Flight 370 over the vast Indian and Pacific Oceans that has disappeared with its passenger & crew of some 250 into thin air some two weeks ago and as of today, March 19,2014, seems to have vanished into some kind parallel universe in the time/space continuum?
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