If this is the movie with Robert Urich and Annette O'Toole I have to say I absolutely love it. This thing is so spectacularly bad it paradoxically reaches a level of perfection I can only wish to achieve. I mean the Captain checks the engine oil using a pencil as a dipstick. After the midair they have an helicopter gunship shoot holes into the elevators, referred to, like every other control surface, only as flippers, to bring the nose of the aircraft down. When this doesn't work (really?) a fire hose is run from another helicopter through the escape hatch to fill the suddenly fluidtight nose gear well with water. I have actually given copies of this movie to friends in the business because it is so bad in a really great way. At least they didn't waste any money on a technical advisor. For what its worth, I think the 74 has an overhead escape hatch as does the CRJ. I think most others use sliding cockpit windows as a means of egress Cheers- Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A Whitenight" <rum.runner@juno.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:42 AM Subject: Final Descent > In the movie "Final Descent", what appears to be either a 767 or AirBus > takes off from an airport that I can't remember any name being given to > it, collides with a small civilian aircraft after takeoff. What type of > commercial aircraft did they use in that movie? I was not aware that any > aircraft of that type have an overhead emergency hatch. Can someone > opine with a pithy reply? > > Richard > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.349 / Virus Database: 195 - Release Date: 4/15/2002