In “The Odyssey of Flight 33,” Global Airlines Flight 33 is traveling from London to New York City. The episode opens with the Boeing 707 roughly 55 minutes from Idlewild Airport, the former name of New York’s principal international airport, when its ground speed begins increasing inexplicably.
The flight’s journey soon becomes a time-travel nightmare. After passing through a flash of light and severe turbulence, the crew discovers that the aircraft has traveled back to the age of dinosaurs. They eventually return to the New York area, but not to their own time: the visible structures belong to the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Rod Serling’s 1961 story turns a routine transatlantic flight into a modern version of the Flying Dutchman legend. The crew tries to regain the present by recreating the conditions that carried them into the past, climbing higher and increasing speed before their fuel runs out.
The destination is sometimes confused with Los Angeles because that city appears in other aviation stories, but the episode explicitly establishes the route as London to New York. The aircraft later reaches LaGuardia, though it is still stranded in the wrong era.