List of aviation accidents and incidents in fiction
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Following is a list of aviation accidents and incidents in fiction.
Aviation accidents and incidents, particularly airplane crashes. are a common theme in popular culture,[1][2] both in fictional depictions of such incidents and their consequences, including investigations, lawsuits, and the effect on the lives of persons involved. Airplane crashes have been described as "the easy and obvious device" for dramatically incorporating an airplane into the plot of a film.[3] However, as one reviewer asserts in assessing the 2012 film, Flight, which is centered on such an event, "when it comes to planes and pilots, Hollywood never gets it right".[4]
Film[edit]
- Alive (1993): the true story of members of a Uruguayan soccer team who survive the crash of a Fairchild Hiller FH-227D operating as Uruguayan Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya) Flight 571 T-571 in the Andean mountains, and had to find a way to stay alive until rescue.
- Bounce (2000): a commercial flight crashes after one character had given his ticket on that flight to another, leading the surviving character to feel guilt over the death of the person to whom he had given his ticket.
- Cast Away (2000): a plane crash leaves the protagonist, played by Tom Hanks, stranded on a Pacific island.
- Con Air (1997): in the films's climactic crash scene, a C-123 where much of the action takes place crashes on the Las Vegas strip.[5] Of three C-123s used in the production of the film, one was non-airworthy and in poor condition, was dismantled and its fuselage was used for filming the crash scene.[6]
- Die Hard 2 (1990): a Douglas DC-8 is given false landing instructions by terrorists and crash lands in a blizzard, resulting in fatalities to all on board, and a later scene of an airplane carrying the villains being blown up by protagonist John McClane (Bruce Willis).
- Flight (2012): a commercial flight crashes due to a technical malfunction, and the pilot, played by Denzel Washington, must invert the airplane in order to control the crash.
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965): drawn from a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor of the same title, the crash of a Fairchild C-82 Packet in the North African desert as central to the plot.[7]
- Sully (2016): directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, recreates the events around Sullenberger's Hudson River landing.[8][9]
- U.S. Marshals (1998): depicts the crash of a 727 from the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS).[10]
Television[edit]
- Criminal Minds episode "A Thousand Suns", aired October 15, 2014: the investigation of a commercial airline crash reveals that it was caused by a disgruntled engineer who had found a way to remotely override airplane control systems.
- Elementary episode "Flight Risk", aired November 8, 2012: a small plane crash turns out to be a cover-up for a murder.
- Grey's Anatomy episodes "Flight, aired May 17, 2012, and "One Flight Down", aired April 16, 2015: in the first episode, many of the main characters are injured in a small plane crash in a forest in the state of Washington, and they must struggle to survive the ordeal; in the second, the characters must deal with patients arriving at their hospital from a commercial airplane crash in Seattle.
- Lost, from the pilot episode aired September 22, 2004: deals with the crash of a commercial plane from the fictional Oceanic Airlines.
- Quincy, M.E. episode "Scream to the Skies", aired February 11, 1981: the crash of Boeing 747 spurs Dr. Quincy's subsequent efforts to improve airline safety regulations.
- The Six Million Dollar Man pilot episode "The Moon and the Desert", aired March 7, 1973: Lee Majors, as Steve Austin, is the pilot in the crash of a Northrop M2-F2 NASA research aircraft during a test flight; Austin is severely injured and must be given bionic parts to save his life. The footage used was from a real M2-F2 accident that took place on 10 May 1967 in the California desert.[11]
Other media[edit]
- The events of the novel, Lord of the Flies, were precipitated by a group of boys being marooned on an island in a plane crash.[12] Harold Bloom writes that "[t]hrough the boys' dialogue... we learn that these boys and others were in a plane crash. The nose of the plane went down in flames, but the cabin crashed through the jungle trees, landing near enough to water to be pulled out to sea, perhaps with some boys still aboard".[12]:17 Bloom notes that the account provided has been deemed implausible by critics, as the story describes the characters as having survived with no injuries, while leaving no adult survivors, and with the crash leaving a "long scar" in the jungle, but with no debris from the airplane.[12]:90
- Music video for the Katy Perry song "Roar", released on September 5, 2013: the crash of a small plane has left the protagonist stranded in the jungle, where she discovers her confidence and asserts control over the animals, while still using the crashed airplane fuselage as her home.
- Charlie Victor Romeo (1999), a play in which performers dramatically reenact FAA transcripts of crew communications during six airplane crashes.[13]
- The survival video game The Forest (2018) features a plane crash that brings the protagonist Eric LeBlanc and his son Timmy, to the peninsula, after the plane crashes, the rest of the passengers are taken away and killed by cannibalistic mutants and Timmy is taken by Dr. Matthew Cross, who caused the crash with a device known as the Obelisk. Later in the game, Eric has the choice of causing another plane to crash in the peninsula in order to bring his son back to life with a required child sacrifice.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ James H. Farmer, Broken Wings: Hollywood's Air Crashes (1984).
- ↑ "The Best Air Disaster Movies". Ranker.com. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- ↑ Patrick Smith, Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel (2004), p. 33-34.
- ↑ Smith, Patrick (November 18, 2012). "Real Pilots Laugh At 'Flight'" – via www.thedailybeast.com.
- ↑ Sweetman, Bill (1 May 2003). "How the 747 Got Its Hump". Air & Space/Smithsonian. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ↑ "Old Wings – Con Air C-123 Providers". Old Wings. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ "Aviation Films – F". Aerofiles. Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ McClintock, Pamela (June 2, 2015). "Clint Eastwood's Next Movie Revealed: Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger Tale (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ↑ Ford, Rebecca (August 11, 2015). "Aaron Eckhart Joins Tom Hanks in Sully Sullenberger Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Hay, Jerry M. (2008). Ohio River Guidebook. Inland Waterways Books. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-60585-217-1. Search this book on
- ↑ "A Crash Made Famous on TV". National Air and Space Museum. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Harold Bloom, William Golding's Lord of the Flies (2010).
- ↑ Studio's First-Class Ticket to Disaster, Peter Marks, Washington Post, June 13, 2006.
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