my god, we were innocent back in the day... at 1:21 the use of a mennequin is so crude that any contemporary self-respecting director would have edited that mess right off; in 1975 it was a "superproduction"
@DgzM67 They were going to do it with a real guy but thought it a bit too dangerous with the shit flying around so opted for the dummy. But they should have shot it like the Foster Farms chicken going out the window. Just showing his feet whip around the corner. A dummy would have worked for that.
Something sort of similar REALLY happened in the mid 80's- a small plane hit a big AeroMexico passenger jet coming into land at LAX. It crashed into a nearby suburb-as did the small plane that had ripped off the passenger jet's tail/rudder -no survivors. The incident happened because another small plane strayed into the high traffic corridor of LAX. The mid-air collision happened just after the distracted air traffic controller had warned the meandering pilot of the other small plane to leave.
If i directed this scene i would have had the Barron screaming in half upside down. The collision would be far more violent and far more shards of metal and glass flying. And the co pilot would have gone out the window in the blink of an eye with his legs wrapped around the window post and his body going back like a paper cup tossed out a car window on the freeway.
Its not a bad sequence but it just could have been so much better.
@upiluften You forgot that a DHL cargo plane and a Russian airliner collided in mid-air and crashed several years ago over Germany. Both planes went down.
May I pause on this occasion to express a few thoughts? HOW in the hell can you have a hole in the cockpit of a 747 going 600 MPH without sucking everything and everybody out??
@jerico641 Meh.. low altitude. The aircraft was on approach, it seems. And the ceiling for a general aviation non-pressurized prop is relatively low, like 10,000 feet or so. De-pressurization should be relatively minimal. Also, the speed would be much slower.. maybe 250-300 knots at most. But, yeah, the idea that only a hole would be present is pretty stupid.
Well, whatever; I'm certainly no pilot or aviation specialist. But I certainly agree that the hole in the cockpit idea was pretty dumb. Even at the speed you mentioned, wouldn't the wind velocity keep ripping the plane open like a big Spam can?
Okay, I'll take your word for it; and thank god Charlton Heston and George Kennedy were around for all these flights, I guess...and Burt Lancaster, and Jack Lemmon, and so on and so on...
Undoubtedly, hands down, one of the best aviation, disaster films ever made! Not even the 747 scenes in the 1996 movie "Executive Decision" were this good! Airport 1975 is the best aviation disaster film ever made! Real aviation dialougue is what I love about this movie!
I always thought the guy who played the ATC on the radio acted way too cool and calm upon hearing the news that the plane was hit. Then again, I suppose that's what an ATC is supposed to do. I would have freaked out myself. Also, does anyone know what would happen if a situation occurred where the entire pilot crew was incapacitated? Someone said that today's planes can land by themselves but I don't believe/buy that. Anyone know the answer?
I do not understand the campy rep this gets.....it had an all-star cast with in all honesty a round up of much bigger stars than the first one in 1970! And the plot line was better and more suspenseful to boot!
Has anybody watching this seen an episode of Family guy, where Peter is supposed to crash a plane for Death? But he sees innocent families on board and tries to talk to the pilots but accidentally kills them. When he finds out that Karen Black is on board, he tells the passengers that she can save everone.No one is following him, so he mentions that she flew a plane in Airport 75 but the passengers are still confused.
@feb67ruary Cheesy effects? The original Airport movie uses a model of a 707 for almost the entire film. The movie AIRPLANE is basically the same thing. AP 75 shot a real 747 for the entire film. Of course they had to do the collision on the sound stage with Rear Projection. But the rest of it is some of the best aerial photography put on film.
@roquefortfiles Oh yes, these movies so destroy modern CGI it isn't even funny, the shots of the 747 in the mountains in this one are some of the best 747 images ever put on film. Plus in 1975, as Autostade67 points out, Karen Black's character doing what she did was huge.
@DEP717 The aerials in this film are without peer. The 747 in the Heber Canyon is stunning. Its airline porn for plane nuts. They didn't cheap out with models and crap. They did it for real and it shows.
Only complaint is i wish the collision was just a BIT better. The FX guys got a bit lazy with the rear screen angles. Its ok for the time but i would love to see it done just a little better. Faster and more deadly. And in one shot.
Does anyone else have a 1:400 die cast model of N9675, the aircraft filmed in this picture.? They only made 120... I own number 72 and it's worth a fair bit. Say what you will about mistakes in 70's blockbusters... Karen Black IS a legend. The film had a great premise for the time. Once you go Black, you never go back. I love this film. It hits the right spots and has all that I would expect if I pay money to see a film. After 35+ years it's still better than many that came after :-)
and i was thinking susan dey played here i saw that in a german magazine but the flight attendand seems to be karen black an atress i never heard of in 1974.
It's almost impossible to explain to younger people today the hold this film had on people (particularly children and adolescents) back in '74. Even today, camp as it is, it still grabs me with something primal. And, though, a cult favourite, yes, Karen Black's Nancy Pryor remains one of the most underrated performances of the 70s. She still gives me chills; one can't imagine any other actress in the part and I shudder to think who may have been considered by the studio.
Tenía entre ocho y diez años cuando esta saga estaba en todo su auge...me impactó sobremanera AEROPUERTO que contó con un reparto de lujo: Jacqueline Bisset (hmmm), la talentosísima Helen Hayes y su inceíble performance de "pavo"...Qué tiempos aquellos y qué magia traían consigo: los afiches, los avances....saludos desde Perú!!!!
I seen this movie in 1976 at Casino,Madras.... at the age of 16years,Now I`m 50 years..remarkable movie I ever seen.. When ever I recall my memory I feel happy......Sriram...siyabros@gmail.com
FIRST OFF...this is way too dumb..even for Universal...NO way that LIL non compression aircraft going to be up at 35,000 feet..where COMMERCIAL JETS ARE GOING TO BE!!!! LAME SHIT.... and THIS BULLSHIT CAME OUT IN 1975!!!!!!! stupid shit...Universal....they brought us....EARTHCRAP!!!!!
@UFOSPACE1999 Um... The plane remains pressurized!! And he had his seat belt off standing 6 inches from the area impacted. He would go out like a rag doll
Aloha airlines roof blew off in 1988 lower than this and the stewardess went out the top.
@roquefortfiles U STUPID...That plane was at 35,000 feet...when the top came off...IF ur defending this mess of Airport 75...ur worst off than I thought. I bet u thought Earthquake was the best movie ever made...REALISTIC that one....get a grip mary.
@UFOSPACE1999 Earthquake is a GOOD bad movie!! Everyone who grew up with it knows it is a classic of the genre. And it STILL has some of the best shot miniatures of any movie. I prefer that stuff to the over done nonsense of today's CGI. Seeing Earthquake back in the day was a big deal. Not like today's weekly FX serving. Back then stuff like that was a HUGE release.
@UFOSPACE1999 Dude.. its a movie!! You seem to have allot of needless repressed rage..
Sit back and enjoy. Ever watched Towering Inferno today? The fire scenes are A JOKE. You can even see the gas jet fire bars ON SET and nothing really catches fire.
I still enjoy the film. And the REAL jet in this film beats the crap out of the MODELS they used in AIRPORT which look laughable.
@roquefortfiles In Towering Inferno they used 57 lots of sets and only 8 remained undamaged, so the fire's were real, so get your facts straight before speaking.
@bowler8 YES i know the fires were real. I don't know what comment you are referring to ? What i was saying was that HOW the fire looked is a little silly from today's perspective. The FX guys simply used gas jet bars on the sets for most of it. There is very little charring and chaotic smoke happening. Ask a real fireman if it looks realistic and I am betting they would laugh. Its "HOLLYWOOD" fire and its very evident. I still love the film though.
@bowler8 You are missing my point entirely. I am not questioning weather fire was used.. OBVIOUSLY it was. I am talking about the quality of how it looked. The realism of it. For 1974 its not bad. But if you REALLY look at a major fire from today's perspective. TI looks silly. The fire burns cleanly with hardly any smoke. It never goes "OUT" when the firemen hit with water. Nothing really appears to BE on fire.. Because it is all from gas jets so they can turn it on and off.
FIRST OFF...this is way too dumb..even for Universal...NO way that LIL non compression aircraft going to be up at 35,000 feet..where COMMERCIAL JETS ARE GOING TO BE!!!! LAME SHIT....
A mid air collision! What could be more edge of your seat than that? Come on. This movie was tops. Saw it in the theater. Airport '70 cannot compare to this.
I saw this movie in early 1975. My friend and I wanted to see "Earthquake", but the line was super long! So, we decided to see Airport 75 that was playing also at the same theater. The 747 looks like American Airlines, but with a different logo painted over it.
@avaitionnerd111 I agree about AP75 but not for Airport. They used a 707 on the ground but all the flying shots look as bad as that crappy plane model used in Airplane. AP75 has by far the best Aerial shots. They actually rented a 747 for 2 days and got all the exterior shots in only 2 days. It cost them $52,000 a day. No film company would ever do that today. It would be CG. But you watch this and you KNOW it is real. Other than the odd studio FX shots.
@roquefortfiles I agree. Even though the movie is all incorrect (Red Eye flight East to West etc...) It's an awesome film. Loved it since I was a kid :-) It's a genuine disaster film and the acting is solid through out. What makes it a good film is that they trumped up the cash to rent out N6975 (the 747) for 2 days. It gives a better sense of reality than ANY CGI effect. I've own a rare model of the plane for that reason. Thanks for your post.
@Servodude1 For sure! The only gripe i have of this film is the effects guys could have tried a little harder on the collision sequence. Looking at it now its kind of goofy and muddled. For me it happens far too slow. Its awkwardly edited. It would have been far more powerful if they were able to get the BG plate of the Barron to roar by the window, the collision, and have the co pilot go out all in one shot. Even with rear screen they could have done it. oh well 1974!!
WAIT the captain was sucked out of the cockpit with suction but the wall eyed air-matress can stand next to the hole and hardly have her hair blow around....
@ragemanchoo82 Collision avoidance system was far far later. And even so, early ones are quite primitive. It only effectively says "move in another direction."
I saw this movie when it first came out back in 1974, it made close to $50 million back then which was considered a box office hit by 70's standards. Very dated but still a good movie. Quite a few inaccuracies one was that it was a red eye flight from D.C. to L.A., red eye flights went from west to east not east to west.
@raydio60 Good observation. I always thought it was from New York actually. Always loved this movie and they incorporated some humor along the way too. This is much better than Airport '70 IMO.
Say what you will about the "old school" technology of the mid 70's. I remember my reaction while watching this in the theater as a kid...and watching it tonight, my reaction was no different! I was still grabbing the arm of my chair during the mid-air collision and cried to Karen Black fearful voice as she radioed that there's no one flying the plane! No frills, bells & whistles...just a great movie!!!!
@msudreaming LOL!! Even though it was done old school they could have done it far better. The only problem i have with it is the Barron does not advance in the head on shot. If they shot it coming straight by the camera on the plate and timed the collision impact to the back ground plate it would have worked very well. Instead the plane hardly moves and the editing of this is far to drawn out. In reality this would be happen screamingly fast.
@virtualpilot31 LOL yeah!! I never clued in to that when i saw this movie as a kid. I saw it on its release in 74. Being a plane crazed kid i loved every second of this flick. Especially the opening shot of that 4-7 coming across the sunset, beautiful shot!! I didn't understand what 12:30 meant as a kid. But Effrems reaction is priceless just after that. This film is very much a guilty pleasure for me. I think it has some of the best aerial photography of any movie still.
I saw this movie when it came out loved it then.. pretty dated now but still a good movie.. One of the greatest lines in a movie "Theirs no one left to fly the plane"
No passenger oxygen masks? No cabin altitude warning? Nancy, at that altitude wouldn't you like to use the oxygen mask (there's one by the F/E; he doesn't need it at this point).
The mechanics must have been on strike/sabotage....
Movies back in those days have so much to pick on.
@JPN850R The airplane wasn't at a high enough altitude to require oxygen masks. It was fixing to land when the Beechcraft Baron collided with the 747.
the old boeing engine fire electronic warning bell at 1:33, was this only on the -100 and -200 747's?? the old 737's and 727's I believe used an actual fast ringing bell
I always enjoyed this film however implausible it is - but I think after this one the series took a turn for the worst with Airport '77 and the horrific Concorde Airport '79.
I thought it would be fun to re-enact this scene last time I flew. I stood up from my seat and started screaming "ARGH, HELP US, OMG HELP US, I'M A NANCY!" The police did not find it very funny when we landed and I was removed from the flight. No sense of humour those airline people. I wrote to complain and they sent me a bill for £35,000. The cost of the diversion. Bloody cheek.
I saw this movie in the theatre in 1974. It was my first PG. I remember the shock of seeing the blood on the captain's face and the great scene of the pilot being sucked out the plane after the collision. Gotta love that lady in the blue dress in the cabin grabbing the seat and screaming her head off during the whole thing. What acting!! This movie is better and more entertaining than AIRPLANE!
Despite the usual: Nuns on a plane, the sick little girl, the actress, three old guys going stag to Cali.... this is the best of the series.
MEATYOKERRable 1 week ago
where was superman
aggalston 1 week ago
my god, we were innocent back in the day... at 1:21 the use of a mennequin is so crude that any contemporary self-respecting director would have edited that mess right off; in 1975 it was a "superproduction"
DgzM67 1 month ago
@DgzM67 They were going to do it with a real guy but thought it a bit too dangerous with the shit flying around so opted for the dummy. But they should have shot it like the Foster Farms chicken going out the window. Just showing his feet whip around the corner. A dummy would have worked for that.
roquefortfiles 1 month ago
that's not true. if there was a hole in the plane the plane would rip apart
ConstructionCentral 1 month ago
Something sort of similar REALLY happened in the mid 80's- a small plane hit a big AeroMexico passenger jet coming into land at LAX. It crashed into a nearby suburb-as did the small plane that had ripped off the passenger jet's tail/rudder -no survivors. The incident happened because another small plane strayed into the high traffic corridor of LAX. The mid-air collision happened just after the distracted air traffic controller had warned the meandering pilot of the other small plane to leave.
petclark1 1 month ago
If i directed this scene i would have had the Barron screaming in half upside down. The collision would be far more violent and far more shards of metal and glass flying. And the co pilot would have gone out the window in the blink of an eye with his legs wrapped around the window post and his body going back like a paper cup tossed out a car window on the freeway.
Its not a bad sequence but it just could have been so much better.
roquefortfiles 2 months ago
If that was a real thing, both planes would have gone down and no one survives.
DC322 2 months ago
@DC322 Oh, really? Look up Gol 1907. One airplane survived. That happens quite often.
upiluften 2 months ago
@upiluften You forgot that a DHL cargo plane and a Russian airliner collided in mid-air and crashed several years ago over Germany. Both planes went down.
DC322 2 months ago
@DC322 My point is that a mid-air collision isn't a 100% both planes crash, and everyone dies, situation. Which is what you said, basically.
upiluften 2 months ago
May I pause on this occasion to express a few thoughts? HOW in the hell can you have a hole in the cockpit of a 747 going 600 MPH without sucking everything and everybody out??
jerico641 2 months ago
@jerico641 Meh.. low altitude. The aircraft was on approach, it seems. And the ceiling for a general aviation non-pressurized prop is relatively low, like 10,000 feet or so. De-pressurization should be relatively minimal. Also, the speed would be much slower.. maybe 250-300 knots at most. But, yeah, the idea that only a hole would be present is pretty stupid.
upiluften 2 months ago
@upiluften
Well, whatever; I'm certainly no pilot or aviation specialist. But I certainly agree that the hole in the cockpit idea was pretty dumb. Even at the speed you mentioned, wouldn't the wind velocity keep ripping the plane open like a big Spam can?
jerico641 2 months ago
@jerico641 Nope. Not at landing speed!
roquefortfiles 2 months ago
@roquefortfiles
Okay, I'll take your word for it; and thank god Charlton Heston and George Kennedy were around for all these flights, I guess...and Burt Lancaster, and Jack Lemmon, and so on and so on...
jerico641 2 months ago
@jerico641 It might, it might not. I recall Aloha 261.. it flew around and landed with a huge portion of it's fuselage missing.
upiluften 2 months ago
@upiluften
Really; I never knew about that one. Weird. I guess anything's possible given the right set of circumstances; Hollywood sure knows that!
jerico641 2 months ago
it's amazing that the pilots memorized the autopilot then and now they don't.
josephenzo767 3 months ago
Undoubtedly, hands down, one of the best aviation, disaster films ever made! Not even the 747 scenes in the 1996 movie "Executive Decision" were this good! Airport 1975 is the best aviation disaster film ever made! Real aviation dialougue is what I love about this movie!
RTD8481 3 months ago
It crashes with the small plane and goes down in the ocean right?
MrGENOSTV 3 months ago
@MrGENOSTV No, The plane that goes down in the ocean is Airport 1977 after they hit an oil rig.
Joseph9536 2 months ago
I always thought the guy who played the ATC on the radio acted way too cool and calm upon hearing the news that the plane was hit. Then again, I suppose that's what an ATC is supposed to do. I would have freaked out myself. Also, does anyone know what would happen if a situation occurred where the entire pilot crew was incapacitated? Someone said that today's planes can land by themselves but I don't believe/buy that. Anyone know the answer?
trppey66 3 months ago
Chuck Heston is coming, Nancy.....
germanicopazuzu 3 months ago
how can the FA stand in the cockpit and not be sucked out!?
puffdaddyhulio 4 months ago
@puffdaddyhulio It's because the cabin pressure has dropped after the explosive decompression.
gurimrippa 3 months ago
Airport 75, 79 & Airport are the best Airport 77 was shit.
TheHillbillyHermitt1 4 months ago
I do not understand the campy rep this gets.....it had an all-star cast with in all honesty a round up of much bigger stars than the first one in 1970! And the plot line was better and more suspenseful to boot!
calalilygirl 4 months ago
Has anybody watching this seen an episode of Family guy, where Peter is supposed to crash a plane for Death? But he sees innocent families on board and tries to talk to the pilots but accidentally kills them. When he finds out that Karen Black is on board, he tells the passengers that she can save everone.No one is following him, so he mentions that she flew a plane in Airport 75 but the passengers are still confused.
1867Phoenix 5 months ago
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1867Phoenix 5 months ago
"I'm A Best Friend To Myself " - Helen Reddy
rexbitten 5 months ago
Unless I'm mistaken, Terry Lester (of Young & Restless fame) played the guy that fell down the stairs due to the mid-air collision.
Tubewings 5 months ago
gotta love the lady in the blue outfit,screaming!!,,,to funny!
Ern1940 6 months ago
I remember seeing this movie when I was five I loved it!
dylanlp1999 6 months ago
Definitely inferior to the first Airport movie. Cheesy special effects used for collision. The Carol Burnett Show did a better job!
feb67ruary 6 months ago
@feb67ruary Cheesy effects? The original Airport movie uses a model of a 707 for almost the entire film. The movie AIRPLANE is basically the same thing. AP 75 shot a real 747 for the entire film. Of course they had to do the collision on the sound stage with Rear Projection. But the rest of it is some of the best aerial photography put on film.
roquefortfiles 5 months ago 6
@roquefortfiles Oh yes, these movies so destroy modern CGI it isn't even funny, the shots of the 747 in the mountains in this one are some of the best 747 images ever put on film. Plus in 1975, as Autostade67 points out, Karen Black's character doing what she did was huge.
DEP717 1 month ago
@DEP717 The aerials in this film are without peer. The 747 in the Heber Canyon is stunning. Its airline porn for plane nuts. They didn't cheap out with models and crap. They did it for real and it shows.
Only complaint is i wish the collision was just a BIT better. The FX guys got a bit lazy with the rear screen angles. Its ok for the time but i would love to see it done just a little better. Faster and more deadly. And in one shot.
roquefortfiles 1 month ago
@feb67ruary I disagree, this was more suspenseful. The other was boring compared to this.
calalilygirl 4 months ago
Loved the movie
MegaBrendan16 6 months ago
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Describe the damage to the plane? There's a fucking great hole in the cockpit!
mistofoles 6 months ago
Surely the radar operators on the ground would have noticed the blips representing the two aircraft converging and warned the 747?
mistofoles 6 months ago
Goood movie I loved it if anyone did not see it I recommend u see the first 2
MegaBrendan16 6 months ago
Does anyone else have a 1:400 die cast model of N9675, the aircraft filmed in this picture.? They only made 120... I own number 72 and it's worth a fair bit. Say what you will about mistakes in 70's blockbusters... Karen Black IS a legend. The film had a great premise for the time. Once you go Black, you never go back. I love this film. It hits the right spots and has all that I would expect if I pay money to see a film. After 35+ years it's still better than many that came after :-)
Servodude1 6 months ago
I hope Karen Black be in the plane when I fly!!!!
Hispavox1000 7 months ago
@Hispavox1000 me2, lol....
germanicopazuzu 5 months ago
How stupid ! Such a crash on the cockpit and I guess the whole plane goes down without any issue. If one can proves the contrary, let us now !
1y 7 months ago
and i was thinking susan dey played here i saw that in a german magazine but the flight attendand seems to be karen black an atress i never heard of in 1974.
MyLalinea 7 months ago
The voluptuous horror of Karen Black.
Dietpepsivanilla 7 months ago
What was a small utility aircraft doing at those altitudes?
Also, they did have radar aboard those jet airliners and surely would have noticed an approaching aircraft.
McLarenMercedes 7 months ago
How did the crash kill Julio? Nothing came near him
bowler8 8 months ago
@bowler8 I thought the same thing. He's played by Erik Estrada (CHIPs).
MrPlum65 7 months ago
It's almost impossible to explain to younger people today the hold this film had on people (particularly children and adolescents) back in '74. Even today, camp as it is, it still grabs me with something primal. And, though, a cult favourite, yes, Karen Black's Nancy Pryor remains one of the most underrated performances of the 70s. She still gives me chills; one can't imagine any other actress in the part and I shudder to think who may have been considered by the studio.
Autostade67 9 months ago 9
Tenía entre ocho y diez años cuando esta saga estaba en todo su auge...me impactó sobremanera AEROPUERTO que contó con un reparto de lujo: Jacqueline Bisset (hmmm), la talentosísima Helen Hayes y su inceíble performance de "pavo"...Qué tiempos aquellos y qué magia traían consigo: los afiches, los avances....saludos desde Perú!!!!
peatretlaw 9 months ago
yeah lady you can stand up when there's a friggin gaping hole
puffdaddyhulio 10 months ago
SHE'S TOO CROSS-EYED TO FLY.
tninbredretard 10 months ago
Karen Black was hot.
thebangles 11 months ago
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I seen this movie in 1976 at Casino,Madras.... at the age of 16years,Now I`m 50 years..remarkable movie I ever seen.. When ever I recall my memory I feel happy......Sriram...siyabros@gmail.com
sriramvellore 11 months ago
Ponch...he's dead...Noooooooooooooooo
harlequin75 1 year ago
Love it big hole and in front of the cocpit and there is only a breeze blowing through.
jpatch3 1 year ago
FIRST OFF...this is way too dumb..even for Universal...NO way that LIL non compression aircraft going to be up at 35,000 feet..where COMMERCIAL JETS ARE GOING TO BE!!!! LAME SHIT.... and THIS BULLSHIT CAME OUT IN 1975!!!!!!! stupid shit...Universal....they brought us....EARTHCRAP!!!!!
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Um.. they were on descent in to landing!! they were not at 35,000 feet.
roquefortfiles 10 months ago
@roquefortfiles THEN the guy should of NOT been sucked out....PLOT HOLES PLOT HOLES PLOT HOLES
Makes Irwin Allen's The Swarm look like Shakespear!!!!
UFOSPACE1999 10 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Um... The plane remains pressurized!! And he had his seat belt off standing 6 inches from the area impacted. He would go out like a rag doll
Aloha airlines roof blew off in 1988 lower than this and the stewardess went out the top.
roquefortfiles 10 months ago
@roquefortfiles U STUPID...That plane was at 35,000 feet...when the top came off...IF ur defending this mess of Airport 75...ur worst off than I thought. I bet u thought Earthquake was the best movie ever made...REALISTIC that one....get a grip mary.
UFOSPACE1999 10 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Earthquake is a GOOD bad movie!! Everyone who grew up with it knows it is a classic of the genre. And it STILL has some of the best shot miniatures of any movie. I prefer that stuff to the over done nonsense of today's CGI. Seeing Earthquake back in the day was a big deal. Not like today's weekly FX serving. Back then stuff like that was a HUGE release.
roquefortfiles 10 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 if you see the movie, the plane had been vectored for approach at 12000 ft
yankeekilo1 8 months ago
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@UFOSPACE1999 if you see the movie, the airplane had been vectored for approach at 12000 ft
yankeekilo1 8 months ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Dude.. its a movie!! You seem to have allot of needless repressed rage..
Sit back and enjoy. Ever watched Towering Inferno today? The fire scenes are A JOKE. You can even see the gas jet fire bars ON SET and nothing really catches fire.
I still enjoy the film. And the REAL jet in this film beats the crap out of the MODELS they used in AIRPORT which look laughable.
roquefortfiles 10 months ago
@roquefortfiles In Towering Inferno they used 57 lots of sets and only 8 remained undamaged, so the fire's were real, so get your facts straight before speaking.
bowler8 8 months ago
@bowler8 YES i know the fires were real. I don't know what comment you are referring to ? What i was saying was that HOW the fire looked is a little silly from today's perspective. The FX guys simply used gas jet bars on the sets for most of it. There is very little charring and chaotic smoke happening. Ask a real fireman if it looks realistic and I am betting they would laugh. Its "HOLLYWOOD" fire and its very evident. I still love the film though.
roquefortfiles 8 months ago
@roquefortfiles there must have been damage if only 8 of the sets remained in tact
bowler8 8 months ago
@bowler8 You are missing my point entirely. I am not questioning weather fire was used.. OBVIOUSLY it was. I am talking about the quality of how it looked. The realism of it. For 1974 its not bad. But if you REALLY look at a major fire from today's perspective. TI looks silly. The fire burns cleanly with hardly any smoke. It never goes "OUT" when the firemen hit with water. Nothing really appears to BE on fire.. Because it is all from gas jets so they can turn it on and off.
roquefortfiles 8 months ago
FIRST OFF...this is way too dumb..even for Universal...NO way that LIL non compression aircraft going to be up at 35,000 feet..where COMMERCIAL JETS ARE GOING TO BE!!!! LAME SHIT....
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
This movie stands the test of time.
calalilygirl 1 year ago
A mid air collision! What could be more edge of your seat than that? Come on. This movie was tops. Saw it in the theater. Airport '70 cannot compare to this.
calalilygirl 1 year ago
i was four when I saw this movie.. for the first time... it was my favorite all time movie..
yvonneroberts1970a 1 year ago
When Kramer hears about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan....
TomthatiscalledTom 1 year ago
When Kramer hears about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan....
TomthatiscalledTom 1 year ago
That lady in the blue dress..grabbing the chair and screaming throughout the whole thing.. yeah..i'd lock her in the bathroom..she'd drive me insane.
Wonka399 1 year ago
i hope that guy in the small plane landed in a volcano
emoviebuff87 1 year ago
I saw this movie in early 1975. My friend and I wanted to see "Earthquake", but the line was super long! So, we decided to see Airport 75 that was playing also at the same theater. The 747 looks like American Airlines, but with a different logo painted over it.
newalm 1 year ago
The guy in the little plane had to shit real bad, they dont have bathrooms in those little planes so he was in a hurry to get down.
PIlotrcm 1 year ago
airport and airport 75
are alot better than crapy modern movies
because airport and airport 75 actully use real aircraft do the real stunts and are very realistic no fancy animation used
thanks for sharing
avaitionnerd111 1 year ago
@avaitionnerd111 I agree about AP75 but not for Airport. They used a 707 on the ground but all the flying shots look as bad as that crappy plane model used in Airplane. AP75 has by far the best Aerial shots. They actually rented a 747 for 2 days and got all the exterior shots in only 2 days. It cost them $52,000 a day. No film company would ever do that today. It would be CG. But you watch this and you KNOW it is real. Other than the odd studio FX shots.
roquefortfiles 1 year ago
@roquefortfiles I agree. Even though the movie is all incorrect (Red Eye flight East to West etc...) It's an awesome film. Loved it since I was a kid :-) It's a genuine disaster film and the acting is solid through out. What makes it a good film is that they trumped up the cash to rent out N6975 (the 747) for 2 days. It gives a better sense of reality than ANY CGI effect. I've own a rare model of the plane for that reason. Thanks for your post.
Servodude1 1 year ago
@Servodude1 For sure! The only gripe i have of this film is the effects guys could have tried a little harder on the collision sequence. Looking at it now its kind of goofy and muddled. For me it happens far too slow. Its awkwardly edited. It would have been far more powerful if they were able to get the BG plate of the Barron to roar by the window, the collision, and have the co pilot go out all in one shot. Even with rear screen they could have done it. oh well 1974!!
roquefortfiles 1 year ago
@roquefortfiles I saw it in the theater, it was impressive.
calalilygirl 1 year ago
Was the guy in the Cessna having a heart attack or just getting the best blowjob ever in his life!
Ronf465 1 year ago
WAIT the captain was sucked out of the cockpit with suction but the wall eyed air-matress can stand next to the hole and hardly have her hair blow around....
tomyazvids 1 year ago
When did they add a mechanism that would automatically force jets to avoid this type of collision? It was sometime in the 1980s, right?
ragemanchoo82 1 year ago
@ragemanchoo82 Collision avoidance system was far far later. And even so, early ones are quite primitive. It only effectively says "move in another direction."
Servodude1 1 year ago
I saw this movie when it first came out back in 1974, it made close to $50 million back then which was considered a box office hit by 70's standards. Very dated but still a good movie. Quite a few inaccuracies one was that it was a red eye flight from D.C. to L.A., red eye flights went from west to east not east to west.
raydio60 1 year ago
@raydio60 Good observation. I always thought it was from New York actually. Always loved this movie and they incorporated some humor along the way too. This is much better than Airport '70 IMO.
calalilygirl 4 months ago
Say what you will about the "old school" technology of the mid 70's. I remember my reaction while watching this in the theater as a kid...and watching it tonight, my reaction was no different! I was still grabbing the arm of my chair during the mid-air collision and cried to Karen Black fearful voice as she radioed that there's no one flying the plane! No frills, bells & whistles...just a great movie!!!!
lisaluvsjoee 1 year ago
im sorry, but that was funny as hell how the co- pilot got sucked out the cockpit
paulwhitemon 1 year ago 2
@paulwhitemon yeah because its a fake dummy lol
zzzzJAGJEETzzzz 1 year ago
Shelly Winters was missed in this movie.
1958Antimatter 1 year ago 2
That'll teach you to buckle up.
MonacoBlast 1 year ago
1.21 LMAO! FAIL!
Marcus666Sund 1 year ago
That collision scene is why CGI was invented...
msudreaming 1 year ago
@msudreaming LOL!! Even though it was done old school they could have done it far better. The only problem i have with it is the Barron does not advance in the head on shot. If they shot it coming straight by the camera on the plate and timed the collision impact to the back ground plate it would have worked very well. Instead the plane hardly moves and the editing of this is far to drawn out. In reality this would be happen screamingly fast.
roquefortfiles 1 year ago
"Cloumbia four oh nine the Baron is at Twelve Thirty."
virtualpilot31 1 year ago
@virtualpilot31 LOL yeah!! I never clued in to that when i saw this movie as a kid. I saw it on its release in 74. Being a plane crazed kid i loved every second of this flick. Especially the opening shot of that 4-7 coming across the sunset, beautiful shot!! I didn't understand what 12:30 meant as a kid. But Effrems reaction is priceless just after that. This film is very much a guilty pleasure for me. I think it has some of the best aerial photography of any movie still.
roquefortfiles 1 year ago
Amazing rader never notice that the Baron was coming towards them!
DeltaEagle7700 1 year ago
I saw this movie when it came out loved it then.. pretty dated now but still a good movie.. One of the greatest lines in a movie "Theirs no one left to fly the plane"
raydio60 1 year ago
I guess that particular plane wasn't equipped with radar?
leafyutube 1 year ago
No passenger oxygen masks? No cabin altitude warning? Nancy, at that altitude wouldn't you like to use the oxygen mask (there's one by the F/E; he doesn't need it at this point).
The mechanics must have been on strike/sabotage....
Movies back in those days have so much to pick on.
JPN850R 1 year ago
@JPN850R The airplane wasn't at a high enough altitude to require oxygen masks. It was fixing to land when the Beechcraft Baron collided with the 747.
madbicyclist 1 year ago
JPN850R There's no need for O2 masks at low altitude - remember they were about to land. This is addressed in the movie if you watch the whole thing.
md65000 1 year ago
I know it's "just a movie" but why would the F.O. be standing up, worried about a vibration, during the landing processs?
Bobphx 1 year ago
look at that lady at 1:30 in the light blue outfit.......lol "sit your butt down"........lol
scaramoochscaramooch 1 year ago
the old boeing engine fire electronic warning bell at 1:33, was this only on the -100 and -200 747's?? the old 737's and 727's I believe used an actual fast ringing bell
OneExoticBoy 1 year ago
Heart attack in mid-flight? I hate it when that happens...
jposh707 1 year ago
I always loved this, Zimbalist is so badass doing that blind....
DEP717 1 year ago
wow! look at all the room they had back then.
bearswilleatme 2 years ago 3
@bearswilleatme Oh yeah, and scope the people dressed up in their best to fly. No sweatsuits on that plane!
DEP717 1 year ago 2
@DEP717 I think years ago that was the case.
calalilygirl 1 year ago
I love Airport 75! Karen Black was spectacular as the reluctant flight attendant who was forced to fly the beaten up plane they were on!
jbdream3 2 years ago 17
@jbdream3 She really was. Saw it in the theater wide screen. It was something else.
calalilygirl 1 year ago
Bad news, fog's getting thicker...............and Leon's getting laaaaaaaaaaaarger!!!!!
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 2
I always enjoyed this film however implausible it is - but I think after this one the series took a turn for the worst with Airport '77 and the horrific Concorde Airport '79.
Dava1000 2 years ago
I remember the ads when this showed on TV -- "There's no one left to fly the plane!!"
Kinemacolour 2 years ago 2
I always liked this movie. Classic.
SteveWard3928 2 years ago
IM HAVIN CHEST PAINS!!!
DiecastOasis 2 years ago 2
@DiecastOasis Me too. Must be all those cigarettes I smoked on the plane. ;)
jposh707 1 year ago
they had to kill everbody to aviod another sequel. This movie sucked so freaking bad.
HuasoPodrido 2 years ago
. Try watching Airport 79 it is funnier than AIRPLANE!!
roquefortfiles 2 years ago
@roquefortfiles Of course Airport 79 was funnier than Airplane. French people always make me laugh.
minutemanIV 1 year ago
@HuasoPodrido Disagree
calalilygirl 1 year ago
I thought it would be fun to re-enact this scene last time I flew. I stood up from my seat and started screaming "ARGH, HELP US, OMG HELP US, I'M A NANCY!" The police did not find it very funny when we landed and I was removed from the flight. No sense of humour those airline people. I wrote to complain and they sent me a bill for £35,000. The cost of the diversion. Bloody cheek.
bules72 2 years ago
pull up!!! pull up!! karen!!!
nimrob 2 years ago
Thats gotta hurt for that co-pilot....ouch..
angolfin21 2 years ago
wow
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oldclassicmovies 2 years ago
pilots is not allowed flying when they have a heart attack am i right?
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sionmed 2 years ago
I saw this movie in the theatre in 1974. It was my first PG. I remember the shock of seeing the blood on the captain's face and the great scene of the pilot being sucked out the plane after the collision. Gotta love that lady in the blue dress in the cabin grabbing the seat and screaming her head off during the whole thing. What acting!! This movie is better and more entertaining than AIRPLANE!
Demille40 2 years ago 7
This movie reminds me of the Aloha Airline real disaster that happened in the 80s.
77Loverboy77 2 years ago
@Demille40 There's no one left to fly THE PLANE!!!!
av8r500 1 year ago