Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 15 wins & 45 nominations total
Adam C. Edwards
- Father on Plane
- (as Adam Ciesielski)
Charlie E. Schmidt
- Tiki Pot
- (as Charlie E. Schmidt Jr.)
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- TriviaThe accident in the film was inspired by a real-life disaster, the crash of Alaska Airlines 261 on January 31, 2000. Some dialogue in the film closely resembles the CVR transcript. Like in the film, the pilots of Alaska 261 rolled the airplane to an inverted position to try to stabilize the flight. Unlike the film, however, this did not assist them in recovering the aircraft. The root cause of the crash was found to be inadequate maintenance of the airplane's stabilizer "jackscrew," which caused its threads to wear down excessively and eventually jam the jackscrew. While the pilots were trying to reach Los Angeles for an emergency landing, the threads were ripped out and the stabilizer moved to a position that forced the plane into its fatal dive.
- GoofsThe NTSB investigation portrayed in the movie includes recovered data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder. US law requires Cockpit Voice Recorders to include at least 30 minutes of audio data from both pilots and Air Traffic Control radio transmissions. Since the plane crashed in less than 30 minutes, the audio from the CVR should have included Evans and Margaret's conversation about Whip sleeping on the job. This would have raised serious questions about Whip's behavior aside from his alcohol and drug usage. However, nothing about this is mentioned at any point during the NTSB hearing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.22 (2012)
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Written by Stephen Duffy & Steven Page
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Based on the trailers for "Flight," I was expecting a investigative procedural film. Denzel Washington plays a pilot who manages to crash land a plane with a minimal loss of lives, a feat everyone agrees no other pilot could probably accomplish. But evidence that he was intoxicated while flying the plane emerges and instead of a hero who saved lives, he becomes a possible felon who caused the crash in the first place.
But the film isn't interested in the investigation. Instead, this is a film about an alcoholic and the rock-bottom journey he goes on that leads him to face his addictive demons. I've never been a huge Washington fan, but he does pretty tremendous work here. This also feels like surprisingly grown-up material for director Robert Zemeckis, who's most known for treacly stuff like "Forrest Gump." My major complaint about the film is that it's far too long. An entire subplot that gives Washington a nominal love interest in the form of a fellow addict could have been cut from the film entirely -- and a good half hour with it -- without any significant impact.
I don't know that I would heartily recommend this film for any reason other than the excellent performance of Washington.
Grade: B+
But the film isn't interested in the investigation. Instead, this is a film about an alcoholic and the rock-bottom journey he goes on that leads him to face his addictive demons. I've never been a huge Washington fan, but he does pretty tremendous work here. This also feels like surprisingly grown-up material for director Robert Zemeckis, who's most known for treacly stuff like "Forrest Gump." My major complaint about the film is that it's far too long. An entire subplot that gives Washington a nominal love interest in the form of a fellow addict could have been cut from the film entirely -- and a good half hour with it -- without any significant impact.
I don't know that I would heartily recommend this film for any reason other than the excellent performance of Washington.
Grade: B+
- evanston_dad
- Mar 18, 2013
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- El vuelo
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- Budget
- $31,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $93,772,375
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,900,566
- Nov 4, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $161,772,375
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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