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Hey guys. Im looking to get a bunch of airplane disaster movies. Can you guys name any or recommend any for me to get? Here is a list I've compiled of ones so far in the vein of what I'm looking for:

Airport (70, 75, 77 and 79)
Airplane! (1 and 2)
Con Air
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Air Force One
Turbulence (1 and 2*)
Executive Decision*
The High and The Mighty*
Snakes on A Plane
Flight of the Dead*
Passenger 57*
FlightPlan (not exactly what I was looking for but Noted anyway)


and thats all I got. the ones with the * mark are ones I still don't own and am currently ordering. Can you guys recommend any more? Im not talking about movies like Alive!, but in the air disasters mainly.

On a second note, I have a vague memory of seeing a movie (probably made sometime in the late 70s-80s) of a jet liner having about 1/4 of the cabin roof/hull blown off. I always used to think it was one of the Airport movies (70 or 75) but I have since discovered that it was not either one of those movies. I was pretty young and it wasn't something I wanted to watch at the time but its driving me nuts that I can't place it. I don't hold out great hope for this, but does anyone know an airplane movie that had that happen?

I recommend "Alive"

True story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106246/

I kinda hoped to avoid Alive! actually.

This may help.

On a second note, I have a vague memory of seeing a movie (probably made sometime in the late 70s-80s) of a jet liner having about 1/4 of the cabin roof/hull blown off. I always used to think it was one of the Airport movies (70 or 75) but I have since discovered that it was not either one of those movies. I was pretty young and it wasn't something I wanted to watch at the time but its driving me nuts that I can't place it. I don't hold out great hope for this, but does anyone know an airplane movie that had that happen?

Are you thinking of Miracle Landing?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100154/

Wow, Miracle Landing? Holy....I think that might be it. From the description of it, and from the timeframe that it was made....that might be it. I really didn't think I had a chance that one of you guys might know what movie I was talking about with such a small amount of info. I need to check that out. Thanks ApplePie.

Are there any on that list that you posted Webb that you recommend in particular?

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

[quote]USAF Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, initiates a plan to attack the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons in the paranoid belief that there is a Communist conspiracy involving water fluoridation which will lead to contamination of everyone's "precious bodily fluids". Ripper orders his nuclear-armed B-52s, which were holding at a fail-safe point as part of a special training exercise, to move into Soviet airspace. Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, an RAF exchange officer serving as General Ripper's executive officer

I never saw this and I don't think I want to.

United 93

September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.

Yeah, unfortunately that one still stings a bit, so I think Id have to pass on that one. Any others?

Every day of my long life, I try to avoid anything involving the word; "Disaster"..... ...!

...it generally ends in tears!...

Wow, Miracle Landing? Holy....I think that might be it. From the description of it, and from the timeframe that it was made....that might be it. I really didn't think I had a chance that one of you guys might know what movie I was talking about with such a small amount of info. I need to check that out. Thanks ApplePie.

Are there any on that list that you posted Webb that you recommend in particular?

Yep it sure is. Tells the tale of the Aloha Airlines 737 that suffered decompression and partial destruction due to fatigue.

I rememeber watchign it as a small boy, and then hopping into the car and pretending iwas in the movie flying

another one is Mercy Mission: The rescue of Flight 771. Stars Scott Bakula from Quantum leap

This looks more like a sports/human interest movie than an airplane disaster.

Not a movie but ...

MASH Season 3, Episode 11.

The one about the L1011 crashing in the swamp.  'Ghost of Eastern...........'.  'Flight of the Phoenix'.  A Jimmy Stewart/Marlene Dietrich thing about a plane that was destined to break.  A weak version of Ernie Gann's 'Fate is the hunter'.