List of fictional aviation accidents and incidents

This is a list of fictional aviation accidents and incidents.

Fictional plane crash

*Air Force One - In the film "Air Force One", the Air Force One crashes into the Caspian Sea and breaks up after it run out of fuel and all engines flameout.
*A fictional crash in the film, The Day After Tomorrow based on Avianca Flight 52 which mentioned that the plane ran out of fuel because the fuel had already freeze.
*Privately owned Boeing 747, Stevens' Flight 23 - a private Boeing 747 in the 1977 film "Airport '77" is hijacked. But everything goes wrong for the hijackers when the 747 crashes in the Bermuda triangle. It settles to the ocean floor largely intact (less four engines and support pylons).
*In the 2007 film on a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, The 747 jumbo jet encounters massive thunderstorms, and the turbulence releases the scientist from the cargo hold, which is a fellow scientist infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus which reanimates the dead. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container. The flesh-eating zombie quickly starts to spread the virus, infecting many of the passengers which now will have to fight for their lives stranded in the air with no way out. The film ends with all the zombies is blowed out from the plane through the hole on the plane cause by the missle. All the zombies are apparently sucked out. Frank and Burrows try to control the plane, but hit a mountain and crash land near Las Vegas.
*In the 2004 film Flight of the Phoenix, When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns (Quaid) and copilot "A.J." (Gibson) are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert.
*In the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, an original film of the 2004 film, which has the same crash.
*Columbia Airlines Flight 409 - a red-eye Boeing 747-100 en route from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles in the film Airport 1975. A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. The first stewardess is forced to take the controls until the Air Force sends someone to land the plane safely. At the end, the plane safely at Salt Lake City Airport.
*The 1958 film "Crash Landing" revolves around the occupants of a passenger plane that must ditch in the Atlantic. The water landing "goes without a hitch and a US Naval ship is right there to save them.
*FedEx DC-10 cargo flight - in the 2000 film "Cast Away" includes a detailed depiction of a FedEx cargo flight flying through a thunderstorm somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean, the FedEx jet decompresses, forcing them to ditch in the ocean. The plane crashes into the night time sea in flames. Saved by an inflatable life-raft, Chuck floats helplessly on the ocean until he is brought to a deserted island, leaving the protagonist as the only survivor.
*KC-10 Extender - As a tanker in the film "Air Force One", it refuel the Air Force One. But it explodes after the terrorists can't hold the plane intact with a flying boom.
*Nobita Airline Flight 02 - a fictional 22th century playground three-wheels plane in "Doraemon" Vol. 28, which can fly like a real airplane was hijacked by Gian. He forced Nobita to fly to Hong Kong. Nobita can't hold the plane anymore because he want to go to the bathroom. The plane crashed into the mountain with Nobita and Gian both survived and injured.
*Paradise Airlines Flight 243 - The Boeing 737-200 in the film Miracle Landing was flying from Hilo, Hawaii to Honolulu, Hawaii, when it experienced rapid decompression when a section of the fuselage was torn away. With one person blown from the cabin and dozens injured, the aircraft was able to make a successful emergency landing at Kahului Airport, on Maui. The film was based on an in-flight accident aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
*Sky Japan Flight 865 - A Boeing 747 aircraft in the "". The flight can't reach its destination and running out of fuel; the plane made an emergency landing at the harbour. All passengers are save, except who is murder by poisoning.
*South Pacific Air Flight 121 - a Boeing 747-400 in the film Snakes on a Plane, on which will be flying from Honolulu to LAX in Los Angeles. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and poisonous snakes, placing in the cargo hold of the plane, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. The crate opens midway through the flight, and the snakes make their way throughout the cabin. In the end, snakes is blow out from the plane through the window. After a nearly-unsuccessful emergency landing, Flight 121 safely lands.
*TOA Flight 502 - is a fictional Boeing 747 in the film Murder on Flight 502. After a flight takes off from New York City to London, a mysterious note turns up at the airport stating that passengers aboard the flight will be killed before the plane lands. At first the note is brushed off as a prank, but the plot thickens considerably once passengers do begin turning up murdered. The murderer was finally killed by fired and the plane landed safety.
*Trans-Orient-Pacific (TOPAC) Flight 420 - A Douglas DC-4 airliner in the 1954 film "The High and the Mighty" revolves around the occupants that the plane must ditch in the Pacific after a catastrophic prop failure and engine fire.
*Volée Air Flight 180 - A Boeing 747-200 aircraft in the film "Final Destination", based on the real life crash of TWA Flight 800.

ee also

* List of fictional aircraft