Line #1 YMMV/Airport


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people nowadays will probably be surprised to know that ''Airport'' was based on a book.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/AlfredNewman's score for the first film, not least the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nceslk5Ubfw main title]]. This would be his final score.
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
4	** Joe Patroni became a RecurringCharacter in each of the sequels, though not with the same job. He was always played by Creator/GeorgeKennedy.
5	** Helen Hayes' MediaNotes/AcademyAward would also cement this status.
6	* HarsherInHindsight:
7	** In ''Airport 1975'', there is a collision between a Boeing 747 and a private propeller plane after the pilot of the latter plane has a heart attack while both are on approach to Salt Lake City International Airport. Just 3 years later in September 1978 a PSA Boeing 727 on final approach collided with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego. Both aircraft crashed into a suburb, killing all 137 people on both aircraft and 7 people on the ground in houses. Despite the resultant tightened ATC clearance and separation rules, a similar accident happened in 1986 when Aeromexico Flight 498 crashed into Cerritos while on approach to LAX after colliding with a Piper Cherokee, killing all 67 people on both aircraft and 15 people on the ground. In another similarity to the film, it was suspected that the pilot of the Piper Cherokee had a heart attack while flying after an autopsy revealed that some of the arteries in his heart were blocked, but this was later ruled out. Fortunately, after the Cerritos crash, the FAA required all airliners entering U.S. airspace to be fitted with Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS). Another accident like this has never happened in the U.S. since.
8	*** If that wasn't enough, the small plane used in the film later had ''an actual mid air collision.'' The occupants of both planes did not survive.
9	** F-BTSC, the Concorde that was used for ''Airport '79'' (and is seen exploding in the end), crashed as Air France Flight 4590 on July 25, 2000 while taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people. At the time of the crash, the pilots were attempting to make an emergency landing at Le Bourget Airport (the airport that the pilots in the movie end up diverting the aircraft to instead of Charles de Gaulle due to damage to the hydraulics).
10	** In ''Airport '79'' again, the corrupt mechanic who sabotages the Concorde's cargo door opines that "bombs are unreliable". [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 Nine years later came Lockerbie....]]
11	** In ''Concorde'', much is made of American athletes attending and participating in the 1980 Moscow Olympics with one subplot involving a budding romance between a Soviet athlete and an American reporter. The United States and 65 other nations ended up not taking part as part of a boycott due to the Soviet-Afghan War.
12	* HilariousInHindsight:
13	** In a TV news report in ''The Concorde...Airport '79'', the reporter's voiceover was done by Creator/HarryShearer, using more-or-less what would become his [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Kent Brockman]] voice.
14	** ''Airport '77'' along with ''Film/DamienOmenII'' would not be the [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague only times Robert Foxworth would play a]] BitchInSheepsClothing FalseFriend for the protagonist.
15	* JerkassWoobie: Karen Wallace in ''Airport '77'', who is emotionally abusive towards her dedicated marine biologist husband, yet is clearly lonely and miserable.
16	* {{Sequelitis}}: While the first film was critically praised at the time of its release and can still be enjoyed by some people today, the three airplane disaster films released under the ''Airport'' banner that followed are pretty unanimously considered bad.
17	* SoBadItsGood: ''The Concorde: Airport '79'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Airport '77'' have such absurdly ridiculous premises and such a campy feel in execution that both can be incredibly funny to modern audiences.
18	* SoOkayItsAverage ''Airport '75'' tends to be the least-remembered entry in the series, not being as legitimately good as the first film, or as hilariously stupid as the two that follow.
19	* SpecialEffectsFailure: In ''Airport '75'', the scene where the plane's cockpit collides with a smaller plane. Rather than actually show two planes crashing into each other, the film cuts footage of the small plane flying in the air at different distances into the cockpit and makes several fast cuts to make it look like the plane is coming closer. Because the small plane moves so fast between cuts and yet so slowly when its shown, it looks very unconvincing.
20	* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The death of Dorothy in ''Airport '77'', right before the others are rescued.]]
21	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A woman by the last name of Livingston appears in both the original ''Airport'' and ''Airport '77'' - with all respect due to Creator/OliviaDeHavilland playing Emily Livingston, Creator/{{Universal}} missed a golden opportunity to have Creator/JeanSeberg reprise her role as Tanya Livingston as a veteran of the first film alongside Creator/GeorgeKennedy as Joe Patroni.
22	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the movies to one extent or another, with the changes in air travel in the last few decades, but ''Airport '79'' was really unfortunate to have centered its plot around a bunch of people headed to Moscow for a "goodwill visit" ahead of the 1980 Summer Olympics. The United States and 65 other countries wound up boycotting the Games after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a few months after the film left theaters.
23	%%* TheWoobie: Inez.

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