Zemeckis air disaster flick.

[igneousy2]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment...-real-life-alaska-airlines-disaster-1.1016435

Denzel Washigton flick with initial crash based on AS 261.

 

[N1atEcon]

Here come the "you'all ain't been drinking hev ya" comments.

 

[GogglesPisano]

Yup. Although I hear DZ's performance is Oscar-worthy, everything else about the movie makes me want cringe.

 

[The Drizzle]

Yup. Although I hear DZ's performance is Oscar-worthy, everything else about the movie makes me want cringe.

What, the part where the captain is doing the walk-around in the rain?

 

[GogglesPisano]

What, the part where the captain is doing the walk-around in the rain?

That's Nobel material.

 

[Lear70]

No, no, no... it's in the snow.

 

[The Prussian]

No, no, no...it's just the captain doing the walk-around...:cartman:

 

[densoo]

Yup. Although I hear DZ's performance is Oscar-worthy, everything else about the movie makes me want cringe.

The FA working the throttles?

 

[FlyinGuy]

Who's throttle is the FA working?

 

[Whine Lover]

Picking it apart already, from the trailers...


Interior cockpit shots seem to be ( I'm not a Douglas man ) an advanced MD product...MD-90/95/717 ?

Inverted flight scene seems to be a Douglas BUT....with Winglets?

Hangar scene where the NTSB reconstructs the A/C is clearly a Douglas nose and walk around shots show the familiar MD strakes just below the cockpit.

I'm sure they had to purposely muddy the waters and obfuscate the identification of the aircraft ....for legal reasons.

What say you....the intelligentsia of Flight Info?

Whine

 

[BoilerUP]

Airplane in the trailer is an MD80 series with a fake cockpit and winglets. In other words, fictional airplane.

Zemeckis is a PPL and very involved in aviation, and the Alaska MD80 jackscrew accident was supposedly inspiration for this film.

 

[Crash Pad]

This is my Sex and the City. I'm grabbing some pilots, a limo, wearing an old uniform, and a 12 pack.

 

[Stukadriver]

Douglas wing vs. small building: Douglas wing wins.

Realistic enough for me.

 

[C-150ETOPS]

Heard he swigs some beer and snorts some coke before the hotel pickup for his morning flight. Then crashes.

Sounds like the typical drunk battling his personal demons. What could have been a better story line would be him testing .0023 or something like that and his battle fighting the airline, the manufacturer, the US and foreign goverments and investment banks trying to pin the accident on him when the truth is half the worlds airline fleet is unsafe and should be grounded.

As of now it sounds like a movie about Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane" trying to come back after sniffing airplane glue and hanging upside down.

 

[Abernathy]

Heard he swigs some beer and snorts some coke before the hotel pickup for his morning flight. Then crashes.

Sounds like the typical drunk battling his personal demons. What could have been a better story line would be him testing .0023 or something like that and his battle fighting the airline, the manufacturer, the US and foreign goverments and investment banks trying to pin the accident on him when the truth is half the worlds airline fleet is unsafe and should be grounded.

As of now it sounds like a movie about Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane" trying to come back after sniffing airplane glue and hanging upside down.

You're a bigger buzzkill than buzz killington.