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The Robert Zemeckis-directed Flight with Denzel Washington made its premiere as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival last Sunday. Washington plays a commercial airline pilot with a drinking and substance abuse problem that comes to light after executing a landing that would have left Sully shaking his head. I was at the premiere, and it is a crazily upsetting sequence. Here is a clip showing the pilot’s attempt to pull the airliner out of a precipitous dive that is usually fatal. Between the plane crash Zemeckis films in his last live action film Cast Away and now this new entry, the director is doing for commercial airline travel what Marathon Man did for dentistry.
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Man, Denzel can do ANYTHING, son!!!
That dude can solve a bank robbery, get Ethan Hawke high, walk around lookin’ like Malcolm X, and now he can fly a 767 upside down?
Please, someone get this man another statute!
I’ll will have to ask my step father (who was a pilot for AA), if they ever had to try this kind of maneuver in simulations – and what it’s success rate was.
The simulator might not allow this stunt although it should be programmable to create this exact problem. Since they are stuck in a crash dive by flipping the plane they should go into a power climb that’s why he had her push the throttles forward. It looks great and now that they are flying level all he has to do is continue the roll and he can land it. I assume he lands in a field near a church from the trailer I saw. It looks awesome.
Whatever! It looks cool, and is a great inciting incident for a movie. I’m sure pilots and the airline industry will roll their eyes, but who cares, I get annoyed by some bad physics, bad logic etc but didn’t have that reaction from this trailer. Plus… Denzel can do anything…. which is awesome.
My comment wasn’t meant as an attack on the credibility of the scene. I am actually curious. You would be surprised at the stresses that all planes, large and small, can go through and stay in the air. You might also be surprised at the seemingly incredulous simulations the airlines put their pilots through during testing (which happens about every year or so)
After ten years of anxiety management, I finally got my wife to agree to get on a plane.
Then she saw this trailer…
This. Looks. Amazing!
It’s completely possible from an aviation angle big jets can absolutely fly upside down and they’ve done these barrel rolls at air shows you can look on YouTube and find footage of this being done.
Here’s a 707 doing a roll in a test flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNbKFMBsQE
It’s a spectacular sequence and Gatins and Zemeckis deserve all the credit for making it look so real. It’s a wonderfully inventive maneuver and I can’t wait to see it when it opens.
that was great. thanks for finding the clip.
Denzel is phoning it in now. Time for him to retire. Terrible acting in that scene. What a shame.
Didn’t he do this same shtick with a train?
The Alaska Airlines flight that crashed off of Port Hueneme had exactly this problem, the stabilizer jammed full-nose-down. The plane was stable inverted, but you just can’t land it that way.
i think in the sequel bruce willis does land a 767 inverted. he orders everyone out on the belly just before landing then sacrifices himself when the cockpit is crushed during landing.
Screw the science! They’ve finally made a movie I REALLY want to see.
You are snag right. Denzel is the King. Not a, The.
This maneuver is possible. Basically to break the dive, you have to get the wings to a certain angle so that the airflow around them creates lift to carry the plane. Wings are symmetrical so they can create lift upside down also. So he does a barrel roll essentially to get the wings at an angle at which they’re creating enough lift to break the dive (which just happens to be upside down). I assume after he regains stability, he flips the plane over again and then lands it. Alaska 261 attempted to do this but they couldn’t maintain.
That plane is the size of the Chrysler Building!