Hijacked: Flight 285: Directed by Charles Correll. With Susan Batten, James Brolin, Michael Gross, Anthony Michael Hall. A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after take-off, two of his aides, tr
“Executive Decision” is a gloriously goofy mess of a movie about a hijacked airliner and a plot to poison, yes, “the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States.” (Why doesn’t anybody ever poison the Western seaboard?)It’s the kind of thriller where it’s fun to chortle over the...
Snyder, Gabriel
This is an accurate depiction of the events which took place on the 4th hijacked plane of Sept. 11. Noah Lee Margetts as Todd Beamer plays the role with just the right amount of stress and not to much fear. The hijackers all play their roles with absolute fidelity. All the passengers in...
In United 93, Greengrass creates a gripping, provocative drama that tells the story of the passengers, crew and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil: ...
The story of the parachutist and the plane hijacking emulates the real life events of the hijacker known as D.B Cooper who on November 24, 1971 hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon. He threatened to detonate a bomb unless he got $200,000. After receiving the ...
Con Air Midway in “Con Air,” theNicolas Cagecharacter observes: “Somehow they managed to get every creep and freak in the universe on this one plane.” That’s the same thought I was having. The plane–a hijacked flight of dangerous convicts–has so many criminal superstars on it, it...
US Marshall Pete Nessip (Snipes) and his brother Terry (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) are accompanying computer whizz prisoner Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter –Waterworld) aboard a jet airliner when it is hijacked by a gang of ruthless killers, led by former DEA agent Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey –Predator ...
(post-gazette.com). This 41 minute delay was due to heavy plane traffic at the airport. The terrorists' original plan was to have the four hijacked aircraft hit their targets within ten minutes of each other(Crash Site Tour). The delay and the courage of the passengers made this ...
The climax of the episode shows some painful to watch scenes of an electronically hijacked plane flying closer and closer to the World Trade Center, before the pilot gains control at the last minute and pulls away to safety. They presumably cut the scene where he lands the plane on the Huds...