"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onApril 28, 1952 with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich reprising their film roles.
The concept of an airliner suffering catastrophic failure due to metal fatigue after a certain number of flight cycles, as outlined in the 1948 novel and this 1951 film, came true with the failures of the de Havilland Comet in 1954. There are a number of eerie parallels between the fictional account and the later actual events.