| Plot (Year) | Movie |
| D. O. Guerrero attempts to blow up the Golden Argosy flight to Rome carrying stowaway Ada Quonsett and Capt. Vernon Demerest (1970) | |
| David Mann driving a 1970 Plymouth Valiant outlasts the unseen truck driver (1971) | |
| Fire breaks out during the dedication party for the Glass Tower in San Francisco (1974) | |
| George Kennedy appears in a role other than Joe Patroni as a 9.9 tremor destroys Los Angeles (1974) | |
| A Boeing 747 collides with a Beechcraft Baron; Scott Freeman doesn't make his sales meeting (1975) | |
| Capt. Don Gallagher's plane is hijacked and crashes into the Atlantic (1977) | |
| Terrorists demand trigger of every nuclear device at Charleston naval base; Charleston destroyed by nuclear bomb (1983) | |
| The Kansas City area is destroyed as part of a nuclear attack on the U.S. (1983) | |
| The city of Sheffield is destroyed as part of a nuclear attack on the U. K. (1984) | |
| Wakita, Oklahoma is destroyed by a tornado, though Dorothy survives (1996) | |
| Real-time account of the events of one of the planes hijacked on September 11, 2001 (2006) | |