I like how George was worried about the discolouration on his lip, View production, box office, & company info, Larry David (created by), With Hanyu Zhang, Hao Ou, Jiang Du, Quan Yuan. The Pilot (also known as Danger in the Skies) is a 1980 American action-drama film by director and star Cliff Robertson and is based on the novel of the same name by Robert P. Davis Contents 1 Plot summary See high school TV and movie icons then and now, from "Dawson's Creek" and more favorites. The only bright spots in his life are his loving relationship with his daughter Cricket and his girlfriend Pat. A Soviet defector lands a jet fighter aircraft on an American airstrip. Directed by Tom Cherones. I felt like I was hit hard in the chest while watching the plane.Make sure the little kiddies stay home, but you need to see this movie.
Whip awakes in an Atlanta hospital with moderate injuries and is greeted by his old friend Charlie Anderson, who represents the airline's pilots union. Many elements from the accident were used in the film such as the cause of the accident, segments of the radio communication, and the decision to invert the airplane. Oliver Platt. Gatins explained in a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times that the dramatic fictional crash depicted in Flight was "loosely inspired" by the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261,[11] which was caused by a broken jackscrew. With Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, Frank Converse, Milo O'Shea. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, AF1 Science Officer [15], The footage of the "Soviet parasite fighter and mother ship" matches the same footage used in the movie, The Soviets reverse engineered the B-29 from three examples that made emergency landings in the USSR during World War II, and produced 847 of them as the, "Jet Pilot (1957); Screen: 'Jet Pilot' lands; Film at Palace barely gets off the ground. Unable to regain control, Whip is forced to fly inverted, before righting the plane to make a controlled crash landing in an open field in Clayton County, Georgia. Hagan's skill at the controls is shown when he guides his plane through turbulence that almost causes another airliner to crash. (2012). To save her, they hatch an escape plan, steal an aircraft, and fly to Soviet airspace. A box office success generating positive reviews, Flight is the first live-action film directed by Zemeckis since Cast Away and What Lies Beneath in 2000, and his first R-rated film since Used Cars in 1980. Kate Curtis. Categorizing Jet Pilot as a stealth comedy, Sarris praises its "humor and sensuality" as "enduringly enjoyable" despite a poor reputation among critics. As a plane flies overhead, Whip replies, "That's a good question". She then states the only other member of the crew to test positive for alcohol was Katerina. She then reveals that two empty vodka bottles were found in the plane's trash, despite beverages not being served to passengers, and that Whip's blood test was excluded for technical reasons. It was written and produced by Jules Furthman, and presented by Howard Hughes. In that incident the broken jackscrew caused a catastrophic failure from which recovery was impossible but Pilot Ted Thompson and First Officer Bill Tansky were actually able to fly their plane inverted in the last moments of that flight. Immanuel Ambhara. Official Sites He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. It stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. "[19], The film received some criticism from airline pilots who questioned the film's realism, particularly the premise of a pilot being able to continue flying with a significant substance-abuse problem.