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Anyone Seen Passenger 57 Movie?

American MD-80 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (13 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 721 times:

If you have seen the Passenger 57 Hijacking movie, is that plane an L-1011 or DC-10?

Colin Kumpunen

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BryanG From United States of America, joined May 1999, 418 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (13 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 715 times:

It's an L-1011.

A few problems with that movie that I can remember:
1) You can't stand up in the belly of an L-1011, much less fight somebody down there.
2) The electronics bay in the nose belly is about the size of a closet, not a whole room.
3) You can't get from the tail belly to the nose belly without swimming through a few thousand gallons of fuel.
4) Only a mechanic would know how to hotwire the fuel dump valve, and it would tke more than just a minute to dump an entire load of gas.

NWA Man From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 1828 posts, RR: 13
Reply 2, posted (13 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 715 times:

If I remember correctly, the F/As and pilots would regularly take an elevator near the tail section of the L-1011 and get food, steaks, guns, and everything else in that movie. Is there really an elevator like that on the L-10?

Create your own luck.

American MD-80 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (13 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 716 times:

Yes, there is an elevator in the L-1011. The elevator takes you to the lower galley. To see a seat chart of an L-1011, go to http://www.ata.com
American Trans Air's L-1011 seat chart includes the elevator.

Colin Kumpunen

GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 628 posts, RR: 6
Reply 4, posted (13 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 715 times:

One other mistake I noticed was when they were starting to refuel it, they put an "over-wing" fuel hose up to the "single-point" or "underwing" refueling connection. For those of you not familiar with what that means, most of the jets built today have a single-point refueling connection that is designed to enable the aircraft to be fueled faster with bigger fuel loads and this connection is located underneath the wing, however, every type of airplane has an "over-wing" fuel cap somewhere on the TOP of the wing to be used in the event something goes wrong with the "single-point" fuel system. And that concludes today's lesson on aviation fuel systems. Class Dismissed!! :-)

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. " -Jimmy Buffett

WinAir From United States of America, joined May 1999, 270 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (13 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 717 times:

I believe that aicraft was an LTU L10-11...

Twa747100 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 600 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (13 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 717 times:

ITS A MOVIE!!!!! FOR FUN but yet yes there were alot of errors in it but hey it was a good move bad guys die good guy gets girl and lives

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