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Jul 28th, 2010 at 8:21pm

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Hey guys. Im looking to get a bunch of airplane disaster movies. Can you guys name any or recommend any for me to get? Here is a list I've compiled of ones so far in the vein of what I'm looking for:

Airport (70, 75, 77 and 79)
Airplane! (1 and 2)
Con Air
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Air Force One
Turbulence (1 and 2*)
Executive Decision*
The High and The Mighty*
Snakes on A Plane
Flight of the Dead*
Passenger 57*
FlightPlan (not exactly what I was looking for but Noted anyway)


and thats all I got. the ones with the * mark are ones I still don't own and am currently ordering. Can you guys recommend any more? Im not talking about movies like Alive!, but in the air disasters mainly.

On a second note, I have a vague memory of seeing a movie (probably made sometime in the late 70s-80s) of a jet liner having about 1/4 of the cabin roof/hull blown off. I always used to think it was one of the Airport movies (70 or 75) but I have since discovered that it was not either one of those movies. I was pretty young and it wasn't something I wanted to watch at the time but its driving me nuts that I can't place it. I don't hold out great hope for this, but does anyone know an airplane movie that had that happen?
 
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Reply #1 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 8:52pm

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I recommend "Alive"

True story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106246/
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 8:56pm

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I kinda hoped to avoid Alive! actually.  Can you recommend any others?  Something where about 50-60% of the movie is on the plane, or airport, etc. at least.
 
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Reply #3 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 9:02pm

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This may help.
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 9:03pm

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JimPhelps wrote on Jul 28th, 2010 at 8:21pm:
On a second note, I have a vague memory of seeing a movie (probably made sometime in the late 70s-80s) of a jet liner having about 1/4 of the cabin roof/hull blown off. I always used to think it was one of the Airport movies (70 or 75) but I have since discovered that it was not either one of those movies. I was pretty young and it wasn't something I wanted to watch at the time but its driving me nuts that I can't place it. I don't hold out great hope for this, but does anyone know an airplane movie that had that happen?


Are you thinking of Miracle Landing?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100154/
 
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Reply #5 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 9:30pm

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Wow, Miracle Landing? Holy....I think that might be it. From the description of it, and from the timeframe that it was made....that might be it. I really didn't think I had a chance that one of you guys might know what movie I was talking about with such a small amount of info. I need to check that out. Thanks ApplePie.

Are there any on that list that you posted Webb that you recommend in particular?
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 11:24pm

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Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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USAF Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, initiates a plan to attack the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons in the paranoid belief that there is a Communist conspiracy involving water fluoridation which will lead to contamination of everyone's "precious bodily fluids". Ripper orders his nuclear-armed B-52s, which were holding at a fail-safe point as part of a special training exercise, to move into Soviet airspace. Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, an RAF exchange officer serving as General Ripper's executive officer  issues the command on Ripper's order, but later realizes that it was issued inappropriately and not in retaliation to a Soviet attack on America. He resolves to recall the planes on his own authority, but Ripper refuses to disclose the three-letter code needed to get the bombers back to base and locks the two of them in his office ...


I think it's safe to say this ends in disaster.
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 28th, 2010 at 11:28pm

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I never saw this and I don't think I want to.

United 93

September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 29th, 2010 at 4:49am

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Yeah, unfortunately that one still stings a bit, so I think Id have to pass on that one. Any others?
 
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Reply #9 - Jul 29th, 2010 at 7:23am

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Every day of my long life, I try to avoid anything involving the word; "Disaster"..... Shocked...!

...it generally ends in tears!...  Cry...!

Paul..... Wink...!

Watching/suffering the Film; "The Sound Of Music" was the biggest disaster for me.... Embarrassed....!

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Reply #10 - Aug 10th, 2010 at 5:54am

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JimPhelps wrote on Jul 28th, 2010 at 9:30pm:
Wow, Miracle Landing? Holy....I think that might be it. From the description of it, and from the timeframe that it was made....that might be it. I really didn't think I had a chance that one of you guys might know what movie I was talking about with such a small amount of info. I need to check that out. Thanks ApplePie.

Are there any on that list that you posted Webb that you recommend in particular?


Yep it sure is. Tells the tale of the Aloha Airlines 737 that suffered decompression and partial destruction due to fatigue.

I rememeber watchign it as a small boy, and then hopping into the car and pretending iwas in the movie flying
 
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Reply #11 - Aug 10th, 2010 at 6:00am

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another one is Mercy Mission: The rescue of Flight 771. Stars Scott Bakula from Quantum leap
 
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Reply #12 - Sep 10th, 2010 at 9:49pm

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This looks more like a sports/human interest movie than an airplane disaster.  It's based on a true incident that happened on November 14, 1970.

We Are Marshall

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n November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971? 


Southern Airways Flight 932
 
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Reply #13 - Sep 18th, 2010 at 5:37pm

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Not a movie but ...

MASH Season 3, Episode 11.  March 18, 1975.

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Lt. Col. Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan... it spun in. There were no survivors.


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Reply #14 - Sep 26th, 2010 at 12:57pm

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The one about the L1011 crashing in the swamp.  'Ghost of Eastern...........'.  'Flight of the Phoenix'.  A Jimmy Stewart/Marlene Dietrich thing about a plane that was destined to break.  A weak version of Ernie Gann's 'Fate is the hunter'.
 
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Reply #15 - Sep 26th, 2010 at 1:01pm

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Fozzer wrote on Jul 29th, 2010 at 7:23am:
Every day of my long life, I try to avoid anything involving the word; "Disaster"..... Shocked...!

...it generally ends in tears!...  Cry...!

Paul..... Wink...!

Watching/suffering the Film; "The Sound Of Music" was the biggest disaster for me.... Embarrassed....!

..... Grin....!
'Doe, a deer - a female deer........' come on sing it with me Fozz  Cheesy.
 
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Reply #16 - Sep 29th, 2010 at 11:36pm

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olderndirt wrote on Sep 26th, 2010 at 1:01pm:
Fozzer wrote on Jul 29th, 2010 at 7:23am:
Every day of my long life, I try to avoid anything involving the word; "Disaster"..... Shocked...!

...it generally ends in tears!...  Cry...!

Paul..... Wink...!

Watching/suffering the Film; "The Sound Of Music" was the biggest disaster for me.... Embarrassed....!

..... Grin....!
'Doe, a deer - a female deer........' come on sing it with me Fozz  Cheesy.

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
 
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Reply #17 - Oct 5th, 2010 at 11:55am
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Nobody's mentioned "Island In The Sky"........an excellent character-study movie starring John Wayne, and others.

Pretty realistic look and how behaviors change when facing extreme circumstance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sky_(1953_film)
 
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