Cheryl Ladd played a strong female character that seemed like one out of a Lifetime movie in Aftermath (1990), an airplane disaster movie that dealt more with, you guessed it the aftermath, then with the disaster itself. The film touched on topics like "crib death" ("go ahead, you can say it", Ladd says to a friend afraid to bring up the subject) and "pilot error". The latter term was thrown around a lot due to the fact that her husband, one of the pilots and one of the few survivors of the crash, was due to take the fall for that very reason. As any good wife would do, Ladd fought to prove her husband's innocence by insisting there was a fire on board which brought the plane down. There were obstacles, of course, along the way, including a driven and determined reporter (played by Jim Metzler, also a star in a 1998 airline disaster film called "A Wing and a Prayer") asking tough questions about her husband's past. I'll admit I enjoy these 'women-in-peril' films that often appear on Lifetime now and Cheryl Ladd has filled her resume with plenty of them. This one is very good and also very touching in some scenes, especially the ones involving an elderly survivor of the crash who is mourning the loss of his wife. This movie was also more believable than most airplane disaster movies because it involved real drama and the very real ramifications and consequences of the pilot's flying of the plane.
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