Blackhawk144 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 2666 times:
I know this is a very morbid topic, but I've always wanted to ask...
1) What's you favorite air crash scene?
2) What's the most realistic air crash scene?
3) What's the most realistic aircraft movie?
Please mods dont move this to the Aviation Polls and Prefs just cause of Question 1.
For me Question 1 would be the Windsor DC-8 Crash in Die Hard 2, that was quite spectacular, as far as most movies go. The crashes in the made-for-TV movie "Freefall" were pretty cool too.
Corocks From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1199 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 2641 times:
I would have to say the scene from 'Alive' was pretty entertaining. And of course the one from 'castaway' was entertaining as well, although not very realistic.
Bjg231 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 163 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 2535 times:
Although you don't really see a closeup of the plane "crashing," I'd say Final Destination probably had the best crash scene, especially b/c of the eery lead in to takeoff.
Now for the WORST crash I've ever seen, that would have to be Air Force One. The entire big budgeted movie was filled with great special effects and good action sequences, but the end sequence (with the 747 crashing in the water) looked too computer generated with HORRIBLE physics.
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Checo77 From Peru, joined Oct 2004, 1345 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 2497 times:
I agree, Air Force One, was the worst, more unrealistic movie I ever see, I laughed so much when Harrison Ford was passing form plane to plane on that rope So unrealistic....
A very good airplane movie was (I don´t remember the name). The one which was about a 744 flying to USA with this terrorist and a bomb staring Kurt Russell? The rescue team gets to the 744 by a plane with the "bridge". In the movie, Steven Segal was also, and he dies when this "bridge" collapses. Very good indeed.
A very bad movie as well was Passanger 54 (or whatever). The only good part was Halle Berry
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Bobs89irocz From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 632 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 2480 times:
The King Air 200 on Jurasic Park 3...They took off and the T Rex jumped out in front of them...nice crash. Also the ones on "Air America."
GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 626 posts, RR: 6 Reply 7, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 2477 times:
I enjoyed the F/A-18 Super Hornet & SAM scene from Behind Enemy Lines. I thought the Beaver crash in The Edge was pretty spectacular.
Chazzerguy From United States of America, joined Jun 2002, 277 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 21 hours ago) and read 2381 times:
I also vote for the FIGHTCLUB crash scene... Very brief, but it has that pit of the stomach feeling like "Yeh, that's probably pretty much what it would be like to be on a disintegrating airliner..."
Qxeguy From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 81 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 2280 times:
For me its a tie between 'Alive' and 'Fight Club'...Final Destination a solid 2nd place. Morbid, but entertaining. I guess we a.netters like them for the same reason the general public likes horror movies..we like to scare ourselves. Partially the reason I am such an NTGEO "Air Emergency" fan.
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AA B777-200 From Netherlands, joined Mar 2001, 503 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 2227 times:
I don't know what the movie's called, but my "favorite" would be the one highlighting the Eastern Airlines crash in the Everglades, South Florida.
The actual crash was on Dec.29th, 1972 and involved a L1011 flying out of JFK into Miami.
The scenes looked pretty realistic.
M404 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2213 posts, RR: 5 Reply 15, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 13 hours ago) and read 2169 times:
For shear realism it was a DH Beaver/Otter(?) tumbling on a lake landing in the 1982 Charlton Heston release "Mother Lode" Why? - It was real.
The pilot was flying a passenger (hence it qualified as an airliner) in to remote Canadian lake. Gorgeous day and long panning screen filling scene as it set down on almost mirror surface and a float digs in. Bang. Cartwheel to total disintegration. It wasn't supposed to happen but was so spectacular and well filmed the script was changed (completely) to keep it in. Yes, he lived I believe, otherwise I'm sure it would not have been included.
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BCal From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 3384 posts, RR: 18 Reply 17, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 2041 times:
I think that the crash in the movie "Fearless" starring Jeff Bridges (his personality was changed after surviving the air crash and this was the theme for the remainder of the film) seemed realistic to me.
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Burg400 From United Kingdom, joined exactly 9 years ago today! , 36 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 1980 times:
Was there not a Action film that actually had a helicopter crash, unintentional but it managed to kill the pilot and I think 2 child actors along with another adult actor. From what I can remember when it appeared on the news was during an action scene the helicopter was caught by the pyrotechnics as it flew low coming down on the children while they were running.
I'm positive the scene was never used but I've no idea what film it was or whether the film ever made it to the theatres.
Planespotting From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3438 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1931 times:
The mid air sequence involving the flat spin in top gun. The stunt pilot in that movie died because of it. I think he did the weight and balance of his Pitts without the camera, and it would have been able to pull out of the flat spin had the weight and moment been correct. but the camera in the nose of the airplane brought it too far forward and he was unable to pull out.
I think that was the best crash sequence in movie history
but yeah the fight club scene was pretty awesome as well.
Drerx7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4906 posts, RR: 9 Reply 21, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1925 times:
For me the best scenes:
Die Hard 2--Windsor DC8 and Evergreen 747
Final Destination--747
Jurassic Park 3 -- King Air 200 (and that was a Spinosaurus not T-Rex)
Cliffhanger--DC9 and Lockheed Jetstar
SATL382G From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1900 times:
Was there not a Action film that actually had a helicopter crash, unintentional but it managed to kill the pilot and I think 2 child actors along with another adult actor. From what I can remember when it appeared on the news was during an action scene the helicopter was caught by the pyrotechnics as it flew low coming down on the children while they were running.
I'm positive the scene was never used but I've no idea what film it was or whether the film ever made it to the theatres.
"Twilight Zone: The Movie" It was rewritten and the scene removed. Major lawsuits resulted. Major changes made (supposedly) in movie production safety. I believe James Cameron was the director involved.
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 24, posted (8 years 6 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 1893 times:
Burg400, you are thinking of "The Twilight Zone" movie. Actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese-American children were killed when the pyrotechnics malfunctioned, causing the helicopter above to fall to the ground, crushing the three.
There actually is video of this scene, but the deaths are not visible. Most of Vic Morrow's scenes were already filmed, and his shots were left in. As for the rest of the movie, it made it to theatrical release, but did not do very well (for the most part, it was an awful movie!!).
My favorite crash scene is from "Cliffhanger", a movie which made "Die Hard 2" look like Shakespeare. I found myself hoping all the characters would die just so they'd SHUT UP!! I mean, were all of Lithgow's henchman stupid enough to believe that he'd share ANY of the money with them? I guess all the budget went into that amazing mountain crash.
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25 Mischadee: As for most realistic airplane movie. What about Pushing Tin? Mischa.
26 Jetjeanes: Yeah i remember the eastern crash movie,,i read the book to, there were rumors that capt don repo ,s ghost was seen in differnt l-10-11,s for years af
27 September11: not really made into a movie but a TV show Air Florida's 737 Potomac River crash
28 Planespotterx: Although not "commercial" aviation, the scenes in Pearl Harbor were pretty cool, esp at the beginning with the Mustangs and Damon and Affleck playing
29 Andz: Remember the 747 that made an emergency landing at a Russian military airfield in "White Nights"? It was actually a 707 made to look like a 747, durin
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