1182:(2018) features a plane crash that brings the protagonist Eric LeBlanc and his son Timmy, to the peninsula; immediately after the plane crashes, the players must scavange the wreckage for materials with which to survive. It is later shown that the villain of the game caused the crash, and that the protagonist 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.
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survival movie", involves characters placed in a dangerous environment by an initial airplane crash. Airplane crashes have been described as "the easy and obvious device" for dramatically incorporating an airplane into the plot of a film, and as "a
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depicted the crash using an eight-foot breakaway model, designed to shear at mid-fuselage. The nose and tail were heavily reinforced while a non-reinforced midsection was built up of plastic, foil, wires and metals so that when it broke it would have the layered metal look of a real airframe breaking
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writes that "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". Bloom notes that
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in 1970, whittling down the subplots of the novel to focus on the air disaster, the need to land a bomb-damaged plane at a snow-hampered airport. With an all-star cast, the film was nominated for ten
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saying, "Mr. Hailey is a plodding sort of writer, but he has just the talent to suggest the crashing ennui of airport routine, where only a mortal disaster can provide color". In the same newspaper, Eliot
Fremont-Smith wrote, "As for the formula, the possibilities seem all but inexhaustible. With
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among the passengers, to take over and safely land the unfamiliar aircraft. Hailey, a former
British pilot in the Second World War, wrote the teleplay in only nine days and shopped it about as a screenplay. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, barely four years old, bought the script for $ 600.
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genre, and influence how other stories within the genre are told. Works in this genre encompass both fictional depictions of the incidents themselves, and depictions of consequences such as investigations, lawsuits, and the effect on the lives of persons involved. A subgenre, the "plane crash
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the account provided has been deemed implausible by critics, as the story describes the child 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.
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is often "have faith in pilots". Notably, in some instances controversies have arisen from the release of films involving air crashes in proximity to unpredictably timed real-life air crashes. Another review assessing the 2012 film,
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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
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is given false landing instructions by terrorists and crash lands in a blizzard, resulting in fatalities to all on board; a later scene has an airplane carrying the villains being blown up by protagonist John McClane
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Argentine anthology comedy with the first segment revolving around "a pilot gathering his unwitting enemies on a revenge flight"; at the end of the segment, the pilot crashes the plane into the house of his parents.
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stars as a veteran airline first officer flying as a passenger on an airplane that has a catastrophic engine failure while crossing the
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D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 15, 2002). "Top 50 worldwide grossers".
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1782:"The New York Times Best Seller List June 22, 1969 Fiction"
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The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
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Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel
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Category:Fiction about aviation accidents and incidents
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Uruguayan Air Force (Fuerza AĂ©rea Uruguaya) Flight 571
1246:"A wing and a prayer: why cinema loves a plane crash"
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2488:. Inland Waterways Books. p. 166.
2231:Television Detective Shows of the 1970s
1950:"Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–"
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1948:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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337:was released, drawing on elements of
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1391:Smith, Patrick (November 18, 2012).
1358:Livingstone, Jo (October 12, 2017).
684:Depicts the crash of a 727 from the
2740:Robertson, John (29 January 2014).
2526:McClintock, Pamela (June 2, 2015).
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2076:from the original on March 26, 2015
1835:"20th-Century American Bestsellers"
1461:William Golding's Lord of the Flies
1304:"Top 10 Airplane Crashes in Movies"
898:Sullenberger's Hudson River landing
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2136:"Review: 'Airplane II the Sequel'"
2038:"The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)"
1399:– via www.thedailybeast.com.
414:Plane crash investigation subgenre
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2545:Ford, Rebecca (August 11, 2015).
2384:; Duignan, Patricia Rose (1996).
2362:Morton, Caitlin (April 6, 2020).
1244:Leigh, Danny (December 5, 2016).
963:, is the pilot in the crash of a
2596:Bernstein, David (August 2007).
2469:"Flotsam, Jetsam for 01/25/2007"
2044:. Nash Information Services, LLC
2018:. Nash Information Services, LLC
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189:, directed by Jiřà Horčička. An
17:Aviation accidents and incidents
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2508:Heath, Iver (January 1, 2006).
1693:Levin, Martin (April 7, 1968).
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1618:from the original on 2007-06-13
1597:. Retrieved: September 6, 2014.
1497:. Retrieved: September 6, 2014.
1393:"Real Pilots Laugh At 'Flight'"
1334:Carreiro, Remy (June 6, 2012).
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2417:Sweetman, Bill (1 May 2003).
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191:Australian television version
2629:Lane, Tanya (May 21, 2012).
1942:American Antiquarian Society
1922:American Antiquarian Society
1608:"CultMovies, Disaster Epics"
618:Industrial Light & Magic
533:to the successful 1970 film
328:The Concorde ... Airport '79
313:itself spawned the sequels,
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1666:"Internet Movie Database,
1474:"Obituary: Arthur Hailey."
948:The Six Million Dollar Man
370:A review of the 2017 film
2662:Lee, Ben (May 18, 2012).
2134:Har. (December 8, 1982).
1572:Kay and Rose 2006, p. 48.
474:The Flight of the Phoenix
193:was produced in 1966. In
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910:The Mountain Between Us
455:The High and the Mighty
373:The Mountain Between Us
350:Airplane II: The Sequel
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101:The High and the Mighty
96:The High and the Mighty
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2532:The Hollywood Reporter
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304:The Poseidon Adventure
153:General Motors Theatre
125:, leaving it to an ex-
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2300:Turner Classic Movies
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264:novel and film series
233:Jet Over the Atlantic
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2265:"Aviation Films – F"
2012:"Airport '77 (1977)"
1839:library.virginia.edu
1167:Charlie Victor Romeo
1154:Music video for the
2368:Condé Nast Traveler
1845:on January 12, 2017
1668:The Doomsday Flight
1338:. UnrealityMag.com.
1310:. February 2, 2014.
1193:Aircraft in fiction
1175:survival video game
757:Final Destination 5
248:(1966), written by
245:The Doomsday Flight
119:Canadair North Star
2514:The New York Times
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2229:David Martindale,
2096:"AIRPLANE! (1980)"
2064:"Airplane! (1980)"
1761:The New York Times
1735:The New York Times
1704:The New York Times
894:Sully Sullenberger
280:The New York Times
269:Flight into Danger
195:Flight into Danger
164:Flight into Danger
149:Flight into Danger
142:Flight into Danger
106:Flight into Danger
2495:978-1-60585-217-1
2403:978-0-345-38152-1
1696:"Reader's Report"
1508:"Hailey's Comet."
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203:Runway Zero-Eight
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