Heroes of this picture - crew of the Soviet plane transporting cargoes and passengers somewhere in Africa - get in a situation of "doomsday" when the ground leaves from under legs, the fiery lava, and the plane - as if an ark - a unique saving haven is nearby thrown up. It is accepted to estimate "Ekipazh" as the first (and quite worthy respect) an example Soviet the films-accidents, naturally caused agiotage of public even in so record Olympic year - 1980 when not only at once five movies have exceeded a boundary in 50 million more often, but three of them ("Piraty XX veka" - action too was developed "far from the Native land", - "Moskva slezam ne verit" and "Ekipazh") became the most popular for all history of the Soviet cinema. Still paid special attention to that inadmissible boldness from which director Aleksandr Mitta and actors Leonid Filatov and Aleksandra Yakovleva have shown intimate illegitimate mutual relations between flight engineer-lady's man Skvorcov and the stewardess by name Tamara.
