LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The British pilot we see at 1:15 in the movie, was seen by me in a cafe in Ealing in London around 2008. He is also starred a role in ConAir.
Colonel Stuart is without a doubt the evilest of villains in the Die Hard films, how could he do a thing like this by killing innocent people. It's a good thing he shared a similar fate at the end.
It seems this movie did have a bad attitude towards the British.
This was back when America still had the money to make movies like this with REAL explosions and not CGI made to look realistic because its too damn expensive to blow up a plane.
jesus christ!! Don't listen to that man Cheif O'Brein! He is to fucken crash you and the plane and passengers who are on broad it too!! Don't land the plane!!
I really hated this scene i found it quite upsetting lol, And plus i love how they have to be British and say WHAT THE DEVIL. and Oh quite. Sigh nStereotypes
there was a movie where the pilot tried to take the experimental plane(a silver plane i think) as high as he can without authorization , but loses control and crashes, he survived, everyone knows the name of that movie ?
god i love bad guys like this!!.."we've got ya"....he seems so happy..."your looking good"...while you can hear everone screaming on fire in the background...
@SpiffyTexan ACTUALLY, according to an aviation website, a fully fueled DC-9, which is what this plane looks like only carries at MOST depending on the model, 967 gallons of fuel. I dont honestly know how anything could carry 31,000 gallons of fuel and even move, let alone take off. I know thats impractical for a flight from London, but ur estimate of a 777 is no better either. The first 777 took off in 1994. Diehard 2? Came out in 1990.
@Kynio323 Who knows...Maybe in Smolensk was something similar. When I heard a news about Tu 154 M crash in Smolensk, this part of Die Hard 2 came to my mind immediately
@angelboy78 Smolkensk crash was nothing like this.. the plane disintigrated on impact and everyone was killed instantly in the impact.. and there was no fire.. This stupidity is all the oposite.. plane hits runway but soft enought so aircraft doesnt brake apart and everyone is unharmed on impact and alive.. only to have the entire plane blow up and everyone killed in the explosion? Planes dont blow up unless tanks are ruptured in a heavy impact wich "vaporize" the fuel, this wasnt the case.
@sparrowlt Yes, I agree with you.But when i wrote in my previous post about this similarity between Smolensk and Die Hard 2 plane crash, I was meant that Smolensk could be also a terrorist act (an assasination). Just as we can see here, on this movie
Still reading the crash report in the wikipedia, in Smolensk crash the ground proximity warning alarm sounded several times and aparently the pilots didnt react when they should for some reason.. the plane detected the problem and warned them.. all airliners have radar altimeter , including the DC-8
This scene is one example of how the sequel is so inferior to the original. For instance: I don't care what the terrorists can do with ILS, the plane has an altimeter which can't be corrupted anymore than someone hacking into a speedometer on a car from their wireless laptop. I'm not an aviation expert, but I do have what some sloppy filmmakers fear: a brain. I guess movies just aren't made for people like me.
i watch the original scene and this scene is incomplete
1. a scene with the stewardess putting the little girl's teddy bear next to the girl before fasting the seat belt. (after 2:14)
2. the co-pilot scream with flame started to ignite the whole cockpit, then the scene goes back inside the fuselage with the old lady and children screaming on top of their lungs burning alive (after 4:23)
3. another scene of the little girl and others burning in the plane (between 4:25 - 4:26)
I think most complaints of the glaring logic problem would be easily solved if Colonel Stuart asked for plane with plenty of fuel left...I think the bad guys made their point though with the crash,
Man, nothing pisses McClane off more than innocents getting caught in the cross-fire. you can bet your ass, Stewart and his thugs paid for that dearly.
So... the plane with no fuel exploded in a ball of flame. And, not a single person thought of just setting up emergency lights on the runway or scrambling fighters to escort the planes. Thank you, dumbass Hollow-wood.
Firstly, it obviously still had some fuel or it couldnt have been flying. Secondly, they couldnt set up the eemrgency lights because they had lost all control of the airport. Thirdly, there WAS NO FUCKING TIME TO SCRAMBLE FIGHTERS.
@bubby963 "Some" fuel is not enough to create an epic explosion like that. Why do you think the terrorists flew planes fresh off the runway into the towers? They needed enough fuel to make a big boom. Emergency lights, as in powered by portable generators or even chemical flares. Fighters, especially near D.C. are in constant alert mode. The minute the lights went out at the airport, in real life, a whole squadron would be rolling down the runway at the nearest airbase.
Haha youre forgetting, the fumes are still flammable. Secondly, fighters are not there to help aircraft, but there for military purposes. Even if they had scrambled fighters, do you really expect the pilots to fucking see them in this weather. Thirdly, if a plane is coming down hard through thick snow, by the time they see the lights, they don't have time to pull up. Manouvering an aircraft isn't easy, learn that.
Heres something you should know, runway lights are for helping direct planes towards the runway, NOT FOR STOPPING PLANES THAT ARE COMING NOSE DOWN THROUGH A FUCKING SNOW STORM! If there were runway lights on, the plane would not have had time to manouvere by the time it saw them through the snow storm.
I say this is the MOST horrible scene in the Die Hard franchise...Col Stuart and his boys created the most collateral damage and for that, they had to pay, McClane-style
BTW, for those asking and wondering.. the plane is a DC-8-61 (series 61) they even got the number of people acurate, DC-8 61s normally carry 210 passangers + 7 hostess + 3 pilots , and this wasnt the most filled DC-8, the 61 could be configured to carry up to 280 people
This crash is impossible for dozens of reasons and the explosion is simply impossible .. yes i know fuel vapors are highly flamable but it would cause at best a fire (still very dangerous ) but not a plane dissintegration explosion.. no plane has ever "exploded" after a hard landing .. they either disintegrate on impact due to the impact breaking the plane apart (and fuel blasting and igniting) or the plane catches fire after .. but no "big ball of fire explosion" see that AF A340 for example
The posh voice is a bit grating but the line's not so bad. It efficiently reiterates the nationality. There is an issue though with American producers not having the guts to dish out the worst civilian casualties to their own people. I still like the scene's effectiveness, but it's the same logic as Modern Warfare 2 : "We need some really shocking violence in the airport scene to grab everyone's attention... eh, but let's make it some Russians cos no one really cares about them."
I hate when the guy next to Stuart smiles. Look at Stuart during this scene. He's all business. No joking around, no smiling. He's going to teach the tower a lesson and if it take some collateral damage to get his point across than so be it.
@legozombie4000 707's and DC-8's looked so similar (they both came out in the late '50s) it's very easy to mistake them unless you look at the close details. But those old DC-8's do somewhat look like today's 757's with 2 extra engines.
I don't get it, what type of plane is it? At first I thought it was a DC-8, but then I looked at it again and it wasn't. I don't know, the closest I can get, is that it's a 757 fitted with two extra jet engines.
I remember when I said out loud in the theatre: This plane was supposed to have just a few drops of jet fuel and it exploded like it had fuel even in a passenger cabine! Everybody laughed!
@pimpmasterdac Yeah, once they hit their minimum altitude on the approach they would have executed a missed approach...and altimeters are barometric, so it wouldn't matter what the ILS told them. :)
@escrete20000 Knowing how an aircraft altimeter and ILS works makes me a braniac? I'll bet you think that a fire hydrant shoots water in the air when a car hits it, and that any vehicle explodes in a ball of fire when shot with a gun. Pointing out inaccuracies with movie physics is a great joy of mine, but that hardly makes me a braniac. Thanks anyway; I appreciate the compliment. :-) What do the accuracy of movies have to do with Discovery being a TV network, again? I missed the connection...
@escrete20000 The connection is that if the movie industry was supposed to only depict reality, then there would not be movies, there would only be documentaries. It's good for you to have that knowledge, but you have to lighten up, dude. We all know that most of the things we seen in movies are bullshit, but what the heck, at least it's fun.
@escrete20000 Ahh, I see. That makes more sense. :) I'll say one thing, though...the fact that you know things in movies are bullshit puts you above the average viewer. I wasn't actually trying to criticize the scene, merely point out the factual error of it. It's still a good movie. I love the Die Hard series (though 4.0 was REALLY pushing it. I mean, I thought that Asian chick was a robot for awhile...she survived unscathed getting hit by an SUV AND being thrown into a concrete wall).
That is one of the sickest air crashes on the big screen ever.. Die Hard 2 was pretty good - different element from the first what with airplanes being involved.
Well because they thought they were 200 feet higher off, I would imagine they were going at a faster speed than they would if they were actually landing, so the speed on impact with the runway could do it.
I thought William Sadler made an excellent villain as Col. Stuart. Wouldn't trade him for Nicholson, Pacino, De Niro or any other 'better known' actors for anything.
This movie simply Rocks! Ive got it on dvd and have watched it countless times. My favorite is watching Mclain and the police chief, played by that guy ? from NYPD Blue, butt heads...funny as hell. This scene was unbelieveably realistic, considering this movie was made back in 91. Check out the gas prices in the background after the police call near the beginning.
hell yea, thats what caused TWA 800, in fact, the fuel itself is pretty hard to ignite, you could hold hold a match to a pool of it and it wont ignite, but if you light a match in a container of vapors, it will explode almost instantly
The ammount of death and destruction Mc Clane has seen in all 4 films would have sent any normal guy into a Mental hospital. But Mc Clane is 1 of a kind!! GO JOHN!!!!
Possibly the most emotionally effective sequence in the entire franchise - even before 9/11, but more haunting thereafter. Not bad for an entry constantly maligned as the weak link (that's DIe Hard 4.0).
I loved it, too...DH2 definitely had a bad rap; Bruce Willis himself even labeled this as his least favorite of the series. But, I loved the villains in this movie because they were the probably the most evil...the gunfights were also really good, and the film also had my most favorite one-liners, especially McClane saying: "Come to papa, scumbag!"
man why is everyone saying all this shit wouldn't happen, of course it wouldn't happen I suppose you couldn't rappel down a building with a fire hose either but it's a movie about a guy who dies hard it doesn't have to make sense it just has to be awesome...
there is a scene with the other flight attendant talking to a little girl with her doll, and another scene of the women and children screaming to death burning in the cabin, its horrible, but they've cut out the scene i think. anybody have the cut out scene?
The terrorists wouldn't have been able to recalibrate the sea level readings because the ILS system on the plane would automatically redetect them even if it was possible to adjust them. It would have been more realistic for the terrorists to have guided the plane to crash into the terminal building or impeded the runway so that the plane became uncontrollable when it was on the ground.
Never mind that the captain would have charts of the airport and would know the proper field elevation and the GPWS would certainly have something to say about it.
hans gruber eat your heart out
TheDrYes 5 days ago
Where the devil have you been?
ronreino 1 week ago
haha bitches
Spatalian007 1 month ago
Damn, McClane just never gives up, ever! Seeing that shit up close would put you in therapy the rest of your life
edinscot56789 1 month ago
William Sadler great actor and sooo under rated.
MrCharles26 1 month ago
The Death of Miles O'Brien will be forever mourned by Trekkies everywhere.
12345moviemaker 1 month ago
@12345moviemaker
And killed by sloan from section 31 lol IRONIC!
MrCharles26 1 month ago
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@12345moviemaker
And killed by Sloan of section 31, lol ironic!
MrCharles26 1 month ago
I bet the pilot wished he had a transporter handy!
masere 1 month ago
best villain ever
mejus16 2 months ago
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The British pilot we see at 1:15 in the movie, was seen by me in a cafe in Ealing in London around 2008. He is also starred a role in ConAir.
Invesigator 2 months ago
@Invesigator Wow you saw him? I'd have loved to, seeing as I'm a big fan of Star Trek TNG and he starred in that show.
masere 2 months ago
@Invesigator His name is Colm Meaney.
PredatorBrendan 2 months ago
Colonel Stuart is without a doubt the evilest of villains in the Die Hard films, how could he do a thing like this by killing innocent people. It's a good thing he shared a similar fate at the end.
It seems this movie did have a bad attitude towards the British.
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But when he ejected from the exploding plane, why didn't they restart shooting at his parachute? Too dark? Out of bullets? WHY?!
qwuezalothus 3 months ago
This is real drama! The first Die Hard is only a starting point compared to this film.
qwuezalothus 3 months ago
Why did "Windsor 114 flame so severely instead of minimum fuel??
B797846ERF 3 months ago
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just like british rail, lol.
rminister1971 3 months ago
This guys a bitch compared to Simon
shadowknight1121 3 months ago
Despite the one tiny little flaw about the huge explosion, this scene is still quite chilling.
comgeek24 3 months ago
Despite the one tiny little flaw about the huge explosion, this scene is still quite chilling.
comgeek24 3 months ago
lane is dc-8 but cockpit isn't
JetlinerCaptain 4 months ago
just watched the movie again... there are so MANY mistakes... but still fun to watch
TheDude90100 4 months ago
"Fuel tank as dry as a martini" , and "we're flying on petrol fumes" ...yet still *KA-BOOM!!! and tons of explosions and fire.. LOL.
swinetastic 4 months ago
Smoleńsk 10 IV 2010 FSB
SpokojnyObserwator 4 months ago
I did not enjoy it as much as the first movie it was a classic Hollywood action movie reality & logic have nothing to do white there universe.
Grenades white 30 or so sec fuse
No FBI CIA
No military jets to guide the plains down
No other airports to contact the plains......
WatchmenDrManhattan 4 months ago
This was back when America still had the money to make movies like this with REAL explosions and not CGI made to look realistic because its too damn expensive to blow up a plane.
LPGivenUp19 4 months ago
200 ton planes make big booms! :D
LPGivenUp19 5 months ago
jesus christ!! Don't listen to that man Cheif O'Brein! He is to fucken crash you and the plane and passengers who are on broad it too!! Don't land the plane!!
tolbertjason 5 months ago 2
oh come on they said this plane was almost out of fuel how the hell did it explode?? this is so unrealistic...
Elastrum 6 months ago 13
@Elastrum LOL, the movie was full of factual errors...for instance, the planes could've landed at another airport :)
fivebearrugs 5 months ago
@Elastrum He said its ALMOST out of fuel , not COMPLETELY ran out of fuel , plus its just a movie lol
tuniturntablist 5 months ago
@Elastrum
The fuel isn't the only thing that could explode in an airplane you know.
qwuezalothus 2 months ago
@qwuezalothus yea it is. there is no other volatile liquids in a plane
ryanroosterr 1 month ago
@Elastrum I'm pretty sure planes explode spontaneously during hard landings.
evilassaultweaponeer 1 month ago
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manstie 3 weeks ago
I really hated this scene i found it quite upsetting lol, And plus i love how they have to be British and say WHAT THE DEVIL. and Oh quite. Sigh nStereotypes
Jo3Vlog 6 months ago
there was a movie where the pilot tried to take the experimental plane(a silver plane i think) as high as he can without authorization , but loses control and crashes, he survived, everyone knows the name of that movie ?
bboymiau 6 months ago
@bboymiau that happens in a shitload of movies... avro aero, space cowboys, green lantern are a few that come to mind quickly
101andrewj 6 months ago
@101andrewj that happens only in "The Right Stuff"... and u can see it here watch?v=1Cq7hf4ylvY
bboymiau 6 months ago
god i love bad guys like this!!.."we've got ya"....he seems so happy..."your looking good"...while you can hear everone screaming on fire in the background...
.great bad guy in the due hard series
AkashicRecordsReader 7 months ago 9
So typical for it too be a British Plane that crashes in an American film, lol
MrClassicDoctorWho 7 months ago
It was so funny how all those innocent people died and their parents would miss them
" sarcasm "
mt2oo8 7 months ago
thank god....innocent people finally die on action films....nowadays they are always saved by super heroes
ABDACOM 8 months ago
John : oooooh HOT ! ?
TheSuperKaupo 9 months ago
NOOOOO! Chief O'Brien! D':
sakurastar2k7 9 months ago
@sakurastar2k7 The "O'Brien must suffer" curse strikes again! lol
outlaw4 8 months ago
@outlaw4 That has to be the worst "O'Brien mus suffer" curse to happen D:
sakurastar2k7 8 months ago
AAAAAUUUGGGHH!!!!WE'RE GONNA DIEEEE!!! BOOOOMMM!!!
This movie is the shit....I remember when it came out in the summer of 1990 and the reviewers said the violence was over the top...ah the memories:-)
publica74 9 months ago 3
@publica74 over the top ? (scoffs) maybe but nothing compared to hostel part 2
BlaringSnake40 8 months ago
renny isthebest
MrSanttuks1 9 months ago
This is a load of shit. Low on fuel, yet it blows up like that?!
Airbus294 10 months ago
As much as I love planes, and reading these comments. Yes that plane had no fuel and there was a big explosion.
But who cares, its one epic film.
Ps is that a 707?
digitalpwnage 11 months ago
@digitalpwnage It is a DC-8 - easiest way to tell is the windscreen...
Airbus294 10 months ago
that fucker stewart deserved a MUCH more brutal death
drclean2000 11 months ago 2
pretty big explosion for a plane that was as dry as a martini
cdierking444 11 months ago
@ Farsight20 - isn't this plan a 707?
theeviltwaz 11 months ago
@theeviltwaz no it is a DC-8. very similar but the easiest way to tell is the windscreen.
Airbus294 10 months ago
were those innocent ppl....o noooooo dude lame
Coffelover28 11 months ago
WHERE THE DEVIL.....made me smile
Coffelover28 11 months ago
take the case of avianca plne that feel out of the sky no way the explosion would be that big
lionking4iscomingIV 11 months ago
@SpiffyTexan ACTUALLY, according to an aviation website, a fully fueled DC-9, which is what this plane looks like only carries at MOST depending on the model, 967 gallons of fuel. I dont honestly know how anything could carry 31,000 gallons of fuel and even move, let alone take off. I know thats impractical for a flight from London, but ur estimate of a 777 is no better either. The first 777 took off in 1994. Diehard 2? Came out in 1990.
Farsight20 1 year ago
Tu 154M ?
Kynio323 1 year ago 3
@Kynio323 Who knows...Maybe in Smolensk was something similar. When I heard a news about Tu 154 M crash in Smolensk, this part of Die Hard 2 came to my mind immediately
angelboy78 1 year ago
@angelboy78 Smolkensk crash was nothing like this.. the plane disintigrated on impact and everyone was killed instantly in the impact.. and there was no fire.. This stupidity is all the oposite.. plane hits runway but soft enought so aircraft doesnt brake apart and everyone is unharmed on impact and alive.. only to have the entire plane blow up and everyone killed in the explosion? Planes dont blow up unless tanks are ruptured in a heavy impact wich "vaporize" the fuel, this wasnt the case.
sparrowlt 1 year ago
@sparrowlt Yes, I agree with you.But when i wrote in my previous post about this similarity between Smolensk and Die Hard 2 plane crash, I was meant that Smolensk could be also a terrorist act (an assasination). Just as we can see here, on this movie
angelboy78 1 year ago
@angelboy78 Ah.. ok..sorry.
Still reading the crash report in the wikipedia, in Smolensk crash the ground proximity warning alarm sounded several times and aparently the pilots didnt react when they should for some reason.. the plane detected the problem and warned them.. all airliners have radar altimeter , including the DC-8
sparrowlt 1 year ago
How was there such a big explosion for very little fuel... Hmm
JoeyTaffy 1 year ago
what is so cool about this??? this is a movie that shows innocent lives being taken away
135aerosmithfan 1 year ago
We've got ya.... We've got ya...
killingjoke99 1 year ago
Y is it always the brits that die in these yank films!!???
ramsanta2 1 year ago 2
It's tea time, old chap! Pip pip cheerio!
Leatherbubba 1 year ago
This scene is one example of how the sequel is so inferior to the original. For instance: I don't care what the terrorists can do with ILS, the plane has an altimeter which can't be corrupted anymore than someone hacking into a speedometer on a car from their wireless laptop. I'm not an aviation expert, but I do have what some sloppy filmmakers fear: a brain. I guess movies just aren't made for people like me.
gsaum 1 year ago
why did they do this? This is the only action movie I can think of where more good guys die than bad guys....
kinda sucks really.
GlengarryGlennBeck 1 year ago
could someone actually hack into the landing systems today i wonder and do this, i mean if you could hack the fbi...
delkosbabe 1 year ago
@delkosbabe Could of worked but they are monitoring the controls so they wont do anything funny
trem7469 1 year ago
What exactly happend ? Why did the PLane explode on landing ???
helicpterfan18 1 year ago
@helicpterfan18 Because it's Die Hard. In these movies, if a car brakes too hard it bursts into flames.
drygnfyre 1 year ago
i watch the original scene and this scene is incomplete
1. a scene with the stewardess putting the little girl's teddy bear next to the girl before fasting the seat belt. (after 2:14)
2. the co-pilot scream with flame started to ignite the whole cockpit, then the scene goes back inside the fuselage with the old lady and children screaming on top of their lungs burning alive (after 4:23)
3. another scene of the little girl and others burning in the plane (between 4:25 - 4:26)
firebird909 1 year ago
I think most complaints of the glaring logic problem would be easily solved if Colonel Stuart asked for plane with plenty of fuel left...I think the bad guys made their point though with the crash,
Proxy88888888 1 year ago
'PULL IT UP!'
Man, nothing pisses McClane off more than innocents getting caught in the cross-fire. you can bet your ass, Stewart and his thugs paid for that dearly.
sabre926 1 year ago 3
how to you explod with very little fuel
lionking4iscomingIV 1 year ago
PULLLLLLLLLLLLL UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
Galvan316 1 year ago
So... the plane with no fuel exploded in a ball of flame. And, not a single person thought of just setting up emergency lights on the runway or scrambling fighters to escort the planes. Thank you, dumbass Hollow-wood.
Devast8ion 1 year ago
@Devast8ion
Firstly, it obviously still had some fuel or it couldnt have been flying. Secondly, they couldnt set up the eemrgency lights because they had lost all control of the airport. Thirdly, there WAS NO FUCKING TIME TO SCRAMBLE FIGHTERS.
bubby963 1 year ago
@bubby963 Fumes are still flammable.
jrcasselman 1 year ago
@jrcasselman
exactly
bubby963 1 year ago
@bubby963 "Some" fuel is not enough to create an epic explosion like that. Why do you think the terrorists flew planes fresh off the runway into the towers? They needed enough fuel to make a big boom. Emergency lights, as in powered by portable generators or even chemical flares. Fighters, especially near D.C. are in constant alert mode. The minute the lights went out at the airport, in real life, a whole squadron would be rolling down the runway at the nearest airbase.
Devast8ion 1 year ago
@Devast8ion
Haha youre forgetting, the fumes are still flammable. Secondly, fighters are not there to help aircraft, but there for military purposes. Even if they had scrambled fighters, do you really expect the pilots to fucking see them in this weather. Thirdly, if a plane is coming down hard through thick snow, by the time they see the lights, they don't have time to pull up. Manouvering an aircraft isn't easy, learn that.
bubby963 1 year ago
@Devast8ion
Heres something you should know, runway lights are for helping direct planes towards the runway, NOT FOR STOPPING PLANES THAT ARE COMING NOSE DOWN THROUGH A FUCKING SNOW STORM! If there were runway lights on, the plane would not have had time to manouvere by the time it saw them through the snow storm.
bubby963 1 year ago
best scene in the movie thx Colonel Stuart you are second to none!
spielerratz 1 year ago
How on earth did a plane with fuel tanks that were "dry as a martini" explode into a huge fireball?!?
dt8884tube 1 year ago
@dt8884tube good point but yet again its a film they can do watever the fuck they like :L
gunsnroses7100 1 year ago
@dt8884tube Because it's Hollywood dude. A plane skidding to a halt on it's belly wouldn't have quite the same impact.
cbraxxas 1 year ago
One of the most horrible scene in a Die Hard movie
VRIESSS 1 year ago 3
@VRIESSS
I say this is the MOST horrible scene in the Die Hard franchise...Col Stuart and his boys created the most collateral damage and for that, they had to pay, McClane-style
CesMan83 10 months ago
what is the name of the actor controlling the altitude machine thing?
fobsternd 1 year ago
BTW, for those asking and wondering.. the plane is a DC-8-61 (series 61) they even got the number of people acurate, DC-8 61s normally carry 210 passangers + 7 hostess + 3 pilots , and this wasnt the most filled DC-8, the 61 could be configured to carry up to 280 people
sparrowlt 1 year ago
This crash is impossible for dozens of reasons and the explosion is simply impossible .. yes i know fuel vapors are highly flamable but it would cause at best a fire (still very dangerous ) but not a plane dissintegration explosion.. no plane has ever "exploded" after a hard landing .. they either disintegrate on impact due to the impact breaking the plane apart (and fuel blasting and igniting) or the plane catches fire after .. but no "big ball of fire explosion" see that AF A340 for example
sparrowlt 1 year ago
Oh shit, they destroyed an a DC-8
Skybolter 1 year ago
not to be an ass, but unless im wrong, the whole movie could have been avoided if the planes landed at OTHER airports XP
st393736 1 year ago
Chief O'Brien was not piloting to his usual standards.
ishockmyself 1 year ago 3
As much as I love this scene there are three things that will always annoy me about it:
1. The English stereotypes ("Just like British Rail, love" Give me strength...)
2. The way that the pilots must have ignored their own altitude reading.
3. Massive Explosion despite a lack of fuel.
Gotta love Hollywood :) I just wish I'd never gone on all those gaffe and blooper websites.
sleeming88 1 year ago
@sleeming88
The posh voice is a bit grating but the line's not so bad. It efficiently reiterates the nationality. There is an issue though with American producers not having the guts to dish out the worst civilian casualties to their own people. I still like the scene's effectiveness, but it's the same logic as Modern Warfare 2 : "We need some really shocking violence in the airport scene to grab everyone's attention... eh, but let's make it some Russians cos no one really cares about them."
TheConciseStatement 1 year ago
I hate when the guy next to Stuart smiles. Look at Stuart during this scene. He's all business. No joking around, no smiling. He's going to teach the tower a lesson and if it take some collateral damage to get his point across than so be it.
bertmustin 1 year ago
very realistic film with the aircraft etc this is one of the best films ever
avaitionnerd111 1 year ago
@aaben123 that plane actually looks like a 707
legozombie4000 1 year ago
@legozombie4000 I believe it's a DC-8, from the wide placement of the passenger windows. The 707's windows were bunched closer together.
electricalsemen 1 year ago
@electricalsemen its actually a modified 757 with two extra engines added, at least thats what i think...
legozombie4000 1 year ago
@electricalsemen wait a minute your right. that is a DC-8. i did some research and the DC-8's windows do have that much space between them.
legozombie4000 1 year ago
@legozombie4000 707's and DC-8's looked so similar (they both came out in the late '50s) it's very easy to mistake them unless you look at the close details. But those old DC-8's do somewhat look like today's 757's with 2 extra engines.
electricalsemen 1 year ago
Did you mean: Flash Player Crash?
Kwpolska 1 year ago
how the hell is the explosion that big with low fuel
lionking4iscomingIV 1 year ago
Terrorist bastards!
AndWhatRoughBeast 1 year ago
3:57 - damn that is the creepiest facial expression. I can see why they chose him to play the Grim Reaper
agwoodliffe 1 year ago
hey that the old govenor of tennesee
lordvader2822 1 year ago
The Scene is Freaking Unrealistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
traineepilot57 1 year ago
@traineepilot57
:O Really?! OMG it must be a crime to have unrealistic scenes in movies, how have they gotten away with that for so many years?!
... It's a movie, dude, of course it's gonna be unrealistic. Very few movies are ever realistic, VERY FEW.
Frostbite249 1 year ago
@Frostbite249 yeah I agree.
traineepilot57 1 year ago
@traineepilot57
It's still a cool scene, though, right?
Frostbite249 1 year ago
@Frostbite249 i don't know :))
traineepilot57 1 year ago
@traineepilot57
Oh. I thought it was...
Well except for the people dying, but hey, it's just a movie.
Frostbite249 1 year ago
Real John will jump out through that window
rwdONLY82 1 year ago
Completely riddiculus
DelfinoDelphis 1 year ago
I don't get it, what type of plane is it? At first I thought it was a DC-8, but then I looked at it again and it wasn't. I don't know, the closest I can get, is that it's a 757 fitted with two extra jet engines.
fredury 1 year ago
@fredury
I'm not so good at planes, but I think it could be a Convair 880?
aaben123 1 year ago
ILS=instrument landing system,very interesting radio waves system,when conditions are poor use IT!
sq1fyy 1 year ago
the last plane explosion is the best
RulerOFmany 1 year ago
I remember when I said out loud in the theatre: This plane was supposed to have just a few drops of jet fuel and it exploded like it had fuel even in a passenger cabine! Everybody laughed!
ZundraF 1 year ago 7
It is an awesome crash, and I do like the Die Hard Series.
But honestly, planes have their on altimeters to tell them how high they are, they'd know there coming in too soon
pimpmasterdac 1 year ago
@pimpmasterdac Yeah, once they hit their minimum altitude on the approach they would have executed a missed approach...and altimeters are barometric, so it wouldn't matter what the ILS told them. :)
cocacola443 1 year ago
@cocacola443 God, I hate braniacs... If the movies' industry was supposed to picture reality, then Discovery would not be a TV network.
escrete20000 1 year ago
@escrete20000 Knowing how an aircraft altimeter and ILS works makes me a braniac? I'll bet you think that a fire hydrant shoots water in the air when a car hits it, and that any vehicle explodes in a ball of fire when shot with a gun. Pointing out inaccuracies with movie physics is a great joy of mine, but that hardly makes me a braniac. Thanks anyway; I appreciate the compliment. :-) What do the accuracy of movies have to do with Discovery being a TV network, again? I missed the connection...
cocacola443 1 year ago
@escrete20000 The connection is that if the movie industry was supposed to only depict reality, then there would not be movies, there would only be documentaries. It's good for you to have that knowledge, but you have to lighten up, dude. We all know that most of the things we seen in movies are bullshit, but what the heck, at least it's fun.
escrete20000 1 year ago
@escrete20000 Ahh, I see. That makes more sense. :) I'll say one thing, though...the fact that you know things in movies are bullshit puts you above the average viewer. I wasn't actually trying to criticize the scene, merely point out the factual error of it. It's still a good movie. I love the Die Hard series (though 4.0 was REALLY pushing it. I mean, I thought that Asian chick was a robot for awhile...she survived unscathed getting hit by an SUV AND being thrown into a concrete wall).
cocacola443 1 year ago
@cocacola443 LOL and that Spiderman, looked like he had no skeleton. Cheers, mate, sorry about the braniac thing. Keep cool :D
escrete20000 1 year ago
omg some kids were on it!
MasterLife695 1 year ago
THERE WAS LITTLE KIDS ON THAT PLANE!
Lax14IsCool 1 year ago
he is a gud villian..
mejus16 1 year ago
Crazy scene! I loved it when those terrorists died later on. Cold-hearted bastards!!!
Treadstone1231 1 year ago
That is one of the sickest air crashes on the big screen ever.. Die Hard 2 was pretty good - different element from the first what with airplanes being involved.
davedavid86 2 years ago 3
Would a plane really blow up so violently like that when it's so low on fuel?
And no one as posh as that air hostess says "love" in Britain. It's reserved for the common folk. O_O
ArtemisJ88 2 years ago
Chief O'Brien! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
fanarchy 2 years ago 9
I wanna fucking kick that guys ass!
AussieBrock 2 years ago
Is 200 feet really enough to crash a huge plane like this? At those speeds its only like +/- few seconds.
Kaarel314 2 years ago
Well because they thought they were 200 feet higher off, I would imagine they were going at a faster speed than they would if they were actually landing, so the speed on impact with the runway could do it.
soulcornflake1 2 years ago
I think colnel stewart was the most cold hearted villian in the series especially when he crashes the plane
kennyjstephens88 2 years ago 14
@kennyjstephens88 true, but the son of a bitch gets a taste of his own medicine at the end of the movie. Go McClane!
thisisrumorcontrol 1 year ago
@kennyjstephens88 Agreed. He was a MEAN S.O.B.
bzurvalec 1 year ago
@kennyjstephens88 it be better if there was a better known actor playing as colonel stuart
videogames321 1 year ago
@videogames321
I thought William Sadler made an excellent villain as Col. Stuart. Wouldn't trade him for Nicholson, Pacino, De Niro or any other 'better known' actors for anything.
2335dark 5 months ago
Love all four DH's.
Joecbg100 2 years ago
All Die Hard movies are good in their own way.
BusterBunker 2 years ago 3
This movie simply Rocks! Ive got it on dvd and have watched it countless times. My favorite is watching Mclain and the police chief, played by that guy ? from NYPD Blue, butt heads...funny as hell. This scene was unbelieveably realistic, considering this movie was made back in 91. Check out the gas prices in the background after the police call near the beginning.
DJ100674 2 years ago
this scared the fuck out of me when i first saw it . it was so damn haunting
Twilightstinks14 2 years ago
For the fact, that the fuel is almost over, the explosion is very intensive...
zoroaster81 2 years ago 3
Aviation fuel vapour is still highly explosive.
sturmovikxr 2 years ago
hell yea, thats what caused TWA 800, in fact, the fuel itself is pretty hard to ignite, you could hold hold a match to a pool of it and it wont ignite, but if you light a match in a container of vapors, it will explode almost instantly
Jobafan08 2 years ago
The ammount of death and destruction Mc Clane has seen in all 4 films would have sent any normal guy into a Mental hospital. But Mc Clane is 1 of a kind!! GO JOHN!!!!
emilyabbie 2 years ago 5
Possibly the most emotionally effective sequence in the entire franchise - even before 9/11, but more haunting thereafter. Not bad for an entry constantly maligned as the weak link (that's DIe Hard 4.0).
PurushaDesa 2 years ago
I'd loved all 4 die hard movies!
ejtimm 2 years ago 4
Yeah, of all the bad guys in the DH series, Colonel Stuart and his gang were the most despicable...I cheered when McClane wasted those bastards
CesMan83 2 years ago 3
I think the first one was amazing. Yippi ki ya mother f***er. lol
Mega123456789100 2 years ago
People give Die Hard 2 a tough time, but this was a damned good scene. Personally, I love the movie.
LargeLeader 2 years ago 5
I loved it, too...DH2 definitely had a bad rap; Bruce Willis himself even labeled this as his least favorite of the series. But, I loved the villains in this movie because they were the probably the most evil...the gunfights were also really good, and the film also had my most favorite one-liners, especially McClane saying: "Come to papa, scumbag!"
CesMan83 2 years ago
man why is everyone saying all this shit wouldn't happen, of course it wouldn't happen I suppose you couldn't rappel down a building with a fire hose either but it's a movie about a guy who dies hard it doesn't have to make sense it just has to be awesome...
xCHEAT69DEATHx 2 years ago
hard conditions to landing in winter windy evening,we got your,we got your...
sq1fyy 2 years ago
holy shit, 4:14 gives me chills, if i was a pilot and in that situation
unleashthebeast2476 2 years ago
How the fuck can the plane blow up when its got no more fuel in it?
EMUmonster 2 years ago
i guess fuel vapors. dats how dat twa plane went down
yke90 2 years ago
there is a scene with the other flight attendant talking to a little girl with her doll, and another scene of the women and children screaming to death burning in the cabin, its horrible, but they've cut out the scene i think. anybody have the cut out scene?
firebird909 2 years ago
Poor old John. He tried his best.
RebelVoDKa 2 years ago 10
The terrorists wouldn't have been able to recalibrate the sea level readings because the ILS system on the plane would automatically redetect them even if it was possible to adjust them. It would have been more realistic for the terrorists to have guided the plane to crash into the terminal building or impeded the runway so that the plane became uncontrollable when it was on the ground.
shabelle20 2 years ago
Never mind that the captain would have charts of the airport and would know the proper field elevation and the GPWS would certainly have something to say about it.
SCE2AUX 1 year ago
It's always British people that seems to get killed of all the time in American movies. Why? Does not make sense to me. :(
yethboth 2 years ago
I know it was only a movie, but in actuallity of what they were portraying, It is highly doubtfull everyone on board the plane was British
EvilDeadJoe 2 years ago
Think of it this way, half that plane was probably American tourists going home.
marko5280 2 years ago 2
colm meaney (the pilot) is 100% irish and proud
connaught2008 2 years ago 4