Sometimes, you've just got to wonder about these movies based on best-selling novels. Let's at least hope that the CBS telepic "Mayday" looked better on the printed page than it does on a television screen, where the execution -- despite a name cast -- proves divertingly dopey. Here's the premise: A commercial jetliner is accidentally struck by a covert U.S. Navy test missile, which for some reason is testing missiles in the air rather than on the water.

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