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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 238601" data-attributes="member: 95">Because it was the storyline that perhaps saved the show from cancellation perhaps, and although other soaps did depict plane crashes before, this was the first time it was done on such a major scale and was aired 5 years and one week after the Lockerbie And it did change the soap genre, soaps did  more big disaster storylines in the years that followedThat’s why it’s a landmark storyline, plane crashes don’t happen that often for it to be portrayed</blockquote>