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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Turbulence", an Air Marshal turns up dead on a flight on which Mac is a passenger. The victim, it turns out, isn't a Marshal at all. The real Marshal was killed earlier and his ID stolen.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Turbulence", "[[Recap/CSINYS05E03 Turbulence]]", an Air Marshal turns up dead on a flight on which Mac is a passenger. The victim, it turns out, isn't a Marshal at all. The real Marshal was killed earlier and his ID had been stolen.
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* ''Film/MurderOnFlight502'': A jumbo jet leaves New York. After the plane has departed, a note is found in the first class lounge with an ominous message left by a passenger threatening to kill some of the passengers. At first it is thought to be a sick joke, but soon a man posing as a priest and a stewardess are killed. It is up to the captain to find the killer before the body count increases.
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* ''VideoGame/MurderOnTheZinderneuf'', an early Creator/ElectronicArts game originally for UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers, begins with a randomly selected victim taking a 5000-foot plunge off the titular zeppelin into the Atlantic Ocean. The player has twelve game hours to interrogate the fifteen surviving passengers and figure out why.

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* ''VideoGame/MurderOnTheZinderneuf'', an early Creator/ElectronicArts game originally for UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers, Platform/Atari8BitComputers, begins with a randomly selected victim taking a 5000-foot plunge off the titular zeppelin into the Atlantic Ocean. The player has twelve game hours to interrogate the fifteen surviving passengers and figure out why.
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* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "[[Recap/CastleS7E21InPlaneSight In Plane Sight]]", the air marshal is murdered on a trans-Atlantic flight, leaving Castle as the closest thing to an investigator aboard. Unlike most such plots, he is able to take full advantage of in-flight Wi-Fi to obtain assistance from Beckett and the rest back in New York.

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* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "[[Recap/CastleS7E21InPlaneSight In Plane Sight]]", the air marshal is murdered on a trans-Atlantic flight, leaving Castle as the closest thing to an investigator aboard. Unlike most such plots, he is able to take full advantage of in-flight Wi-Fi to obtain assistance from Beckett and the rest back in New York.

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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': In "Flight Risk," Sherlock and Joan investigate a plane crash and Sherlock deduces that that once of the passangers had been [[WrenchWhack murdered with a wrench]]. He initially believes the passenger had been murdered while the plane was in flight, but soon discovers that the [[VehicularSabotage plane had been sabotaged]] and deduces that the victim had been killed when he walked in in on the saboteur, who then hid the body on the plane so it would be lost with the others. [[spoiler:The killer actually wanted to kill the pilot and have the plane lost at sea, but the extra weight of the body caused it to crash while still over land.]]

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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': In "Flight Risk," Sherlock and Joan investigate a plane crash and Sherlock deduces that that once of the passangers passengers had been [[WrenchWhack murdered with a wrench]]. He initially believes the passenger had been murdered while the plane was in flight, but soon discovers that the [[VehicularSabotage plane had been sabotaged]] and deduces that the victim had been killed when he walked in in on the saboteur, who then hid the body on the plane so it would be lost with the others. [[spoiler:The killer actually wanted to kill the pilot and have the plane lost at sea, but the extra weight of the body caused it to crash while still over land.]]
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* Taken a step beyond the clouds in the 1985 series ''Murder In Space''. The crew of an international space mission are on the return leg from Mars to Earth when an explosion occurs on the craft ''Conestoga'', shortly after the murders start. The crew of the returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught.

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* Taken a step beyond the clouds in the 1985 series ''Murder In Space''.''Series/MurderInSpace''. The crew of an international space mission are on the return leg from Mars to Earth when an explosion occurs on the craft ''Conestoga'', shortly after the murders start. The crew of the returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught.
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* Combined with LockedRoomMystery in "The Problem of the Tin Goose" by Creator/EdwardDHoch. A Ford Trimotor touches down and the pilot is found stabbed to death at the controls, alone in the locked cockpit.

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* Combined with LockedRoomMystery in "The Problem of the Tin Goose" by Creator/EdwardDHoch. A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trimotor Ford Trimotor Trimotor]] touches down and the pilot is found stabbed to death at the controls, alone in the locked cockpit.cockpit. [[spoiler:He was murdered by his wife, who'd hidden onboard the plane while another stuntman was playing her part, although he didn't know what she was planning]].
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* Occurred in one issue of ''ComicBook/TheMazeAgency'' ("The Mile High Corpse" ). Jen and Gabe are on a largely empty flight to London when one of their fellow first class passengers--a notorious gangster--is garrotted while he sleeps.

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* Occurred in one issue of ''ComicBook/TheMazeAgency'' ("The Mile High Corpse" ).Corpse"). Jen and Gabe are on a largely empty flight to London when one of their fellow first class passengers--a notorious gangster--is garrotted while he sleeps.



* A Literature/{{Biggles}} short story featured a variation on the theme. A light aircraft whose owner was supposedly trying to beat the speed record for a trans-African air route is found crashed and burned out, with a body in the cockpit. Biggles happened to know the pilot personally, and insists on IdentificationByDentalRecords because something seems off about the whole thing for reasons he can't fully explain even to himself. He's right: Not only is the body not the plane's registered owner and pilot, but the cause of death was a bullet to the back of the head. [[spoiler: Turns out the guy was FakingTheDead so he'd have the ultimate alibi for a robbery, and the dead body belonged to some young aviation fanboy he'd met in an airport bar and lured aboard with the promise of a joyride.]]

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* A Literature/{{Biggles}} short story featured a variation on the theme. A light aircraft whose owner was supposedly trying to beat the speed record for a trans-African air route is found crashed and burned out, with a body in the cockpit. Biggles happened to know the pilot personally, and insists on IdentificationByDentalRecords because something seems off about the whole thing for reasons he can't fully explain even to himself. He's right: Not only is the body not the plane's registered owner and pilot, but the cause of death was a bullet to the back of the head. [[spoiler: Turns [[spoiler:Turns out the guy was FakingTheDead so he'd have the ultimate alibi for a robbery, and the dead body belonged to some young aviation fanboy he'd met in an airport bar and lured aboard with the promise of a joyride.]]

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