Champion was based off of a true events.
Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner . Crash ( also known as The Crash of Flight 401 ) is a made-for-TV docudrama released in 1978 , based on the true story of the first crash of a wide-body aircraft , that of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 , a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar which crashed in the Florida Everglades near Miami on the night of December 29 , 1972 .