In 1937 a small passenger plane vanishes without trace in the Australian bush. One man believes everyone else is looking in the wrong place for the crash site and sets out to prove them wrong. But will he reach the survivors in time?  

SYNOPSIS:

On a Wing and a Prayer is an epic true story of survival against almost insurmountable obstacles.

In 1937 an Airlines of Australia Stinson aircraft takes off from Archerfield Aerodrome, Brisbane carrying two pilots and five passengers (one American, one Englishman and three Australians). Just over twenty minutes later it flies into the teeth of a cyclone and crashes in the wilderness of Queensland’s Lamington National Park.

Three men survive the crash and find themselves lost, alone and in the middle of an inhospitable and alien environment. Surrounded by almost impenetrable forest, two of them decide to wait to be rescued. The third man impetuously chooses to go to find help himself.

The two who remain at the crash site soon discover a mutual dislike for one another but circumstances force one of them to work to keep the other alive. They are bound together by fate and if they cannot overcome their hatred they will die.

The survivor who sets out for help is soon in even more trouble as he attempts to negotiate the Australian wilderness alone.

Battling against a pack of wild dingos, blistering heat, shattered bones, near starvation, poisonous snakes, treacherous terrain and their own fraying personalities, for ten days the survivors cling to life against all the odds.

Meanwhile, a vast air and land search is focused on completely the wrong locations and only one man is looking in the right place. Can local bushman Bernard O’Reilly find them in time? Can he even find them at all in the wilderness, or will all his efforts be in vain?