Panic in the skies.......

[eno]

This is the most hillariously bad aircraft disaster movie I've ever seen. It bounces along from one innacuracy to another with all the stereotypical heros and flakes on board.

From the improbability of both pilots being killed by a lightning strike shortly after takeoff (probably before autopilot engagement) from New York (to London), to the belly landing supposedly 16hrs later in Vancouver, with emergency vehicles parked in the middle of the foam covered runway, their crews scrambling for safety, it's an absolute scream.

If you want a good laugh ..... try and see this film .... but don't go out of your way to see it .... and certainly don't pay.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1802836126/details

[Woodlouse2002]

Ah yes. The RadioTimes professed amazement that after Airplane! anyone dared to make another airliner related disaster movie.

[beefhole]

The goofs on imdb are a real hoot

# Continuity: The aircraft is supposedly a Boeing 747 (3-4-3 seating pattern in economy) but the cabin is obviously from a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, with its 2-5-2 seating pattern in economy and its oxygen masks coming out of seat back compartments.

# Factual errors: Flight Management System computers on commercial aircraft don't run under Microsoft Windows 95.

# Factual errors: The aircraft is supposed to fly a six-hour trip from New York to London, England, and would have to contain approximately two extra hours worth of fuel for contingency, yet it flies for more than 13 hours before running out of fuel. An aircraft cannot take off with that much excess fuel, otherwise it would be way above the maximum for a safe landing at the destination or alternate airport.

# Continuity: The Boeing 747 changes color schemes several times throughout the movie, notably a white fuselage while on the ground, aqua-and-blue lines on take-off and in the air, red-and-blue lines on landing.

# Revealing mistakes: Altimeters on aircraft have the dial ranging from 0 to 9, indicating thousands of feet of altitude, and not 0 to 11. The flight deck's "altimeter" in the movie is actually a novelty clock designed to look like an altimeter.