Airplane!

Airplane! DVD cover.

Movie (1980) "PG"

Starring:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Roger Murdock)
Lloyd Bridges (McCroskey)
Peter Graves (Captain Oveur)
Julie Hagerty (Elaine)
Robert Hays (Ted Striker)
Leslie Nielsen (Dr. Rumack)
Robert Stack (Rex Kramer)

This is a classic, but beware. As cheesy as this film is, it's not all innocent.

Ted messes up his relationship with a Elaine, an airline stewardess and tries to convince her that he can change. He boards a flight which she has been assigned to continue his plea with her. Later in the flight, many of the passengers realize they received food poisoning from eating fish prior to the flight. It gets worse as they discover that both the pilots also ate fish and soon become unable to pilot the plane. Ted, being an ex-fighter pilot, is the only one on the plane who has a chance to get it back on the ground safely. As he is landing the aircraft, Elaine is impressed once again and decides she can give him one more chance. There are several shots of the plane, as well as other aircraft, however the entire movie is set during the evening making it hard to get good shots.

Boeing 707

Loading the Trans American plane.

Lightning striking all around the plane lighting it up.

Landing the plane after the wheels broke off at the end of the movie.

End scene where the "auto pilot" (blow-up dummy) takes off after the crash landing.

German Junkers & Submarine Spitfire

Ted has several flashbacks from being a fighter pilot during the war.

Other related shots

Close up of the plane's instrument panel.

The cockpit of the 707.

The in-flight movie.

The in-flight movie plane crash.

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See also

• Airplane! on IMDb
  
• Airplane! on Wikipedia