Talk:The Concorde: Airport '79

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[edit] Paris Concorde crash

I fail to see the relevance of mentioning the "coincidental" Paris Corcorde crash. Show me a production plane that's been in a movie that hasn't had a crash in real life. Unless there are specific circumstances about the events in the movie (which I haven't seen) that are similar to the Paris crash, it doesn't belong here. Pimlottc 08:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. It's a coincidence, and probably most people know about the real disaster than the movie. I vote for keeping it.

Ricardo Monteiro 18:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The aircraft heavily featured in the only Concorde air disaster film I can recall becomes the first and only real-life Concorde crash. There might not have been a great number of Concordes, but still that's a pretty big coincidence. Heightened by the fact that Concordes were so well knowm. Asa01 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aerial acrobatics?

I take issue with the following statement:

"In The Concorde: Airport '79, the airplane flips upside down, which, among other aerial acrobatics, would destroy such an aircraft."

Although rare, commercial aircraft have been known to successfully execute all sorts of exotic maneuvers, like barrell rolls, without being destroyed. During the test phase of the Boeing 707, test pilot "Tex" Johnston successfully barrell-rolled the Dash 80 prototype at least twice (a far less advance commercial aircraft design).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_M._Johnston, and, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_80, and http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2122750

With the Concorde's delta wing shape, engine configuration, and sleek aerodynamics, it probably could execute many of the maneuvers shown in the movie without being "destroyed."