“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...

Thomas Dickey, the lawyer for accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, quoted the classic comedy movie Airplane II upon being asked what his “first impressions” of his client were on ...

You know the feeling: the pilot announces that you've hit cruising altitude. You turn on a movie, and just as someone on screen peels their clothes off or starts spewing blood, a flight attendant ...

With the death of Jim Abrahams, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker writing and directing trio, a look at some of the funniest moments from their key films. By Esther Zuckerman It’s almost hard to ...

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Francis Ford Coppola may not have had any input in the Naked Gun films/TV show, but without him, they wouldn't exist. It all starts with the Airplane! sequel. The key actors from the 1980 film ...