Story Line
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
“What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?”
Top Cast

Robert Hays
Ted Striker

Julie Hagerty
Elaine Dickinson

Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Rumack

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Roger Murdock

Lloyd Bridges
Steve McCroskey

Peter Graves
Capt. Clarence Oveur
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
1980-06-27
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy

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Airplane Collection
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User Reviews (4)
schoosskyler
8/10
•11/4/2017An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came bef...

CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/9/2022Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have b...

drystyx
9/10
•4/18/2023Surely, this is hilarious.
Surely.
A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again.
This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew i...

Filipe Manuel Neto
9/10
•4/4/2024**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.**
I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm...






