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Did you know?

posted 20 years ago by padams33
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Did you know that interior climate controls for the rest of the plane can be controlled from the cockpit of these large planes?

Meaning they can control the level of oxygen pumped into the cabin (or NOT pumped into the cabin). So you can guess where I am leading.

The stewardess should have simply shut down the life support for the passenger sections of the plane until Liotta just passed out. I have heard commercial pilots admit to doing just this thing on flights with groups that appear to be having too much "fun" (meaning they are drinking too much). Just spike the air alittle till everyone is feeling drowsy and they fall asleep and then return the levels to normal.

So if you notice flight attendants inhaling from special tanks and then begin to feel light headed you might be experiencing the same thing. Nighty night.

[–] bigjohn-22 20 years ago

Did you expect teri to know that? Shes a flight attendent that knows nothing about flying plane or anything about its climate control system.

[–] Jonnypiano 20 years ago

She was talking to air traffic control and that British pilot for long enough, they could have told her. Simple.

[–] philopitz 19 years ago

or she could just have finished him when he was trapped in that sliding door. never understood why she chooses that moment to go back to the cockpit, after half an hour of senseless running around the plane. really, in this movie, i didn't know who I wanted to live at the end, they were all so fnckin' stupid.

[–] hughie522 19 years ago

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. I'm afraid that we'll be encountering several plot devices over the next ninety minutes. Please stay in your seats."

Because adjusting the oxygen levels in the cabin would be the easy option. It would make forty-five minutes worth of the movie absolutely necessary and the film could be wrapped up before the halfway point. But of course, Hollywood doesn't think like that (and works in mysterious ways - eg. 'The Avengers' movie). It would make sense in the real world to have something like that but on the big scream, it just doesn't work. Half the audience (well, the half that didn't already decide this film was crud and leave before that) would have fallen asleep if Weaver (Liotta) had just dozed off while Teri (Holly) landed the plane.

[–] js-34 19 years ago

That's a very disturbing idea - a pilot depriving passengers of oxygen so until they sleep. A little brain damage from oxygen deprivation. Thanks for the pleasant flight.

[–] pixelman-1 19 years ago

This may or may not have occured to the filmmakers, but did you really expect them to use that? It would have brought the entire film to a screeching halt. In this instance, they knew (or didn't know) that most of the audience would never have thought of that, and so they chose to use something they knew they could get away with.

What fun would it have been to do that? In real life, sure, but when you want to be entertained for an hour and a half in a movie, watching a psycho slowly fall asleep wouldn't have fit the bill lol.

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[–] pixelator2003 19 years ago

Unless you made the psycho almost fall asleep, but then aliens popped out of outer space and flipped that oxygen switch back to normal... the psycho wakes up again keeps chasing the flight attendant... gets killed by a thunderbolt slicing through the plane ... plane lands safely

[–] r_dixon 18 years ago

Actually, I'm not sure if the pilot can override the oxygen masks dropping down, but the best option would be to instantly drop the pressure which would make everyone pass out. Cabin pressure is controlled from the cockpit. Contrary to popular belief oxygen is not pumped into the cabin, it is recycled from what's already there. That's the reason the air is always kind of stale in an airplane cabin.