The Worst Aviation Movie of All Time

On Mar 28, 8:33 am, Dylan Smith wrote:

Pearl Harbor is one thing. But I think Jay should show one particular
aviation movie in his home cinema setup. It is the movie that is so bad
it is good. It is in fact, the movie that they parodied in "Airplane".

It's called "Zero Hour". The hero is even called Ted Striker. It's dead
serious - but seen through the lens of "Airplane" it's something else.
The closing sequence of the aircraft landing has to be the classic
sequence of this movie. Also, be sure to watch the instrument panel when
Ted Striker enters the flight deck for the first time ...


Awww you beat me to it! Airplane! is a scene for scene parody of
Zero Hour! Airplane! could not have been so good if Zero Hour! had
not been soooo bad. It's truly hilariously bad.

In a different vein, if you're looking for the worst, as in, "This
movie is so bad I can't watch it without gagging", I think I have a
candidate for you. It's a TV movie from 1996 called "Panic in the
Skies!". I just happened to catch a bit of this movie the other day
whilst channel surfing. It was obviously written by people that had
absolutely no clue about airplanes or flying. The situations in the
major plot twists are so ludicrous that even a beginning student pilot
would see right through them.

Initially, the entire crew of a 747 is killed when the plane is
struck by lightning (yeah, right). As the hapless passengers are
flying across the country on autopilot, the autopilot "picks up
signals" from small airports along the way and keeps trying to land
the 747 at GA airports. The main task of the passengers is to figure
out a way of avoiding overflying these airports, so that the autopilot
will quit acquiring the "signals" and trying to land them on
unsuitable runways. Oh yeah, and the government is considering
shooting down the 747, so it doesn't crash on helpless ground
dwellers.

It goes on and on like this for a couple of hours. Don't even get
me started on the VSI with the spinning needle that unwinds in a dive
like an altimeter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122202/plotsummary

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)