Plane

2023 - 2 - 4

Plane showing at Silverbird Cinemas (BusinessGhana)

Since last week Friday, January 27, movie aficionados who thronged the Silverbird Cinemas, Accra Mall and West Hills Mall have been praising Gerald...

Since it made its debut on January 27, viewers have been giving positive reviews on social media and confirmation of its attraction on a global scale. To protect his passengers from being abducted, Captain Brodie (Gerald Butler) and Mike Colter forge an unusual partnership. By perilous landing on a war-torn island, pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike, only to discover that surviving the landing was only the beginning.

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Opinion: A spy plane and a balloon. How diplomacy can go way off ... (CNN)

On May 1, 1960, an American pilot, Francis Gary Powers, took off from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan, in a top-secret U-2 spy plane to fly 3000 ...

[visit to Taiwan](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3836382-china-urges-mccarthy-not-to-visit-taiwan/) that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is said to be planning and which Beijing has already pro-actively warned against. Andelman](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/DavidAndelman__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!zIipj5H7tz2GM89fVxJhA6qmR2CzHxb1-WSyiwxOCZMv7qvEi7PuWWKHELkLFQTuu0ZNjvQ$), a contributor to CNN, twice winner of the Deadline Club Award, is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, author of “ [A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.amazon.com/dp/1643136488/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!zIipj5H7tz2GM89fVxJhA6qmR2CzHxb1-WSyiwxOCZMv7qvEi7PuWWKHELkLFQTuC5dOln8$)” and blogs at [Andelman Unleashed](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/daandelman.substack.com/__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!zIipj5H7tz2GM89fVxJhA6qmR2CzHxb1-WSyiwxOCZMv7qvEi7PuWWKHELkLFQTuTOF7hbA$). Perhaps the US should just shoot down the “weather balloon” when it’s safe and recover the remains when it flies across some sparsely-populated region. [third such launch](https://www.space.com/china-launches-three-spy-satellites-orbit) of similar satellites and China’s 54th last year. China quickly claimed this was a civilian weather balloon that had somehow gone astray, though on Friday Pentagon officials [said](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-us/index.html) it is maneuverable and “violated US air space and international law.” Relations between the US and China have been on a decidedly downward spiral for some time. It’s hard to believe China would use as ham-handed a provocation as a spy balloon to send any contrary signal. And the Pentagon said the US is monitoring it and assessed that shooting it down would be dangerous. That’s part of its job, although it’s unclear just how sensitive its monitoring technology is in terms of the ability to pick up balloon launches. The Biden Administration has Intentional or otherwise, if it was indeed monitoring air flows, their engineers might have suspected these weather phenomena would eventually take these balloons over the United States. Powers ejected from the plane, and was captured,

Plane showing at Silverbird Cinemas (BusinessGhana)

Since last week Friday, January 27, movie aficionados who thronged the Silverbird Cinemas, Accra Mall and West Hills Mall have been praising Gerald...

Since it made its debut on January 27, viewers have been giving positive reviews on social media and confirmation of its attraction on a global scale. To protect his passengers from being abducted, Captain Brodie (Gerald Butler) and Mike Colter forge an unusual partnership. By perilous landing on a war-torn island, pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike, only to discover that surviving the landing was only the beginning.

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Angry football fans corner assistant referee on plane after officiating ... (Daily Star)

Fenerbahce fans confronted an assistant referee after they discovered he was on the same plane flight as them back to Istanbul after a disappointing Super ...

Such a good move by the assistant referee!" Where the f*** is the safety." Do you know how to raise the flag?"

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'Plane' Star Gerard Butler Asked These Newlyweds to Name All ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

Gerard Butler had a funny request for a married couple who reached out to the star to ask if he wanted to be part of their wedding.

[popular movies](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gerard-butler-survived-geostorm-to-escape-comets-in-greenland.html/) to his credit. Butler has lived a [very colorful life](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/is-gerard-butler-single.html/), well before he became [an action star](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gerard-butler-claims-he-channeled-king-leonidas-into-his-body-through-a-weird-portal-while-preparing-for-300-role-i-would-feel-him-coming-into-me-through-time.html/). [Butler’s film career](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/5-must-see-gerard-butler-films.html/) — but if they do, they’ll definitely want to catch his latest action movie, Plane. On [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/plane), [Plane](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/plane-star-could-survive-on-deserted-island-because-of-naked-and-afraid.html/) has 76% on the Tomatometer and a 94% audience score. Butler shared the video with Meyers and his studio audience. Butler jumped in the water, swimming after the boy and bringing him to dry land and safety. Butler, acting quickly, ran to the water’s edge to see that a young boy was apparently trapped in the water and fighting for his life. He remains a Hollywood mainstay to this day, with dozens of [Butler himself humbly said](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gerard-butler-saved-a-boy-from-drowning.html/) at the time, “I wouldn’t call myself a hero. The boy, 14-year-old Daniel Smith, was evaluated and determined to be just fine, but authorities noted that Butler’s quick actions definitely saved Smith’s life. [movies](https://www.cheatsheet.com/movies/), Butler entered the acting game relatively late in life, after a brief stint at law school. A veteran of many hit action

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'Plane' Actor Mike Colter was Shocked to Learn His Cousin is This ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

Mike Colter may be starring in massive blockbusters now, but when he was a teenager, he was shocked to learn he already had a famous cousin!

Colter told the hosts that Davis’ career was starting to pick up at the time, and he was a massive fan of hers. A year later, he began playing the character in his own series, and also appeared in The Defenders. Hollywood is a small place, and although nepotism is rampant in the industry, some A-listers have made it on their own. His entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe came in 2015 when he appeared in Netflix’s Jessica Jones as Colter made his big screen debut in 2004 when he starred in the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby playing boxer Big Willie Little. Colter has been in the acting business for years, but he was shocked to learn his cousin is this Oscar winner.

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'Plane' Ending, Explained: Was Brodie Able To Save The ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

Though Gerard Butler is convincing in the role of a pilot who knows how to be hopeful even in the most dire situations, Mike Colter, playing the character of a ...

He told everybody that he would try flying the plane, as waiting for the rescue forces was not a possibility that they could entertain as they knew that the separatists were going to hit back with full force. Brodie was thankful that he was still alive and could see his daughter. Gaspare and Brodie attacked them and came to know that the passengers had been taken to a village called Dandulit. Gaspare took the emergency money that Shellback had brought with him and escaped into the wild. Brodie knew that the separatists would kill him, as being the captain meant that they could extort huge amounts of money from his government. Brodie had noticed while landing that there was a facility somewhere nearby that probably had telephones and he wanted to take Gaspare with him because he didn’t feel comfortable leaving such a hardened criminal with the passengers. Brodie realized that they didn’t have a lot of options, and if they wanted to save the passengers, he would have to surrender. Gaspare and Brodie left together, and the former was surprised by the kind of confidence and trust the latter had shown in him. Brodie couldn’t believe it when she cut the call and told him that as long as he wouldn’t be able to tell his badge number, she wouldn’t be able to help him. The spearmen had taken all the passengers into custody, and though Brodie wanted to intervene, Gaspare stopped him from doing so as he knew that they would still kill the passengers even if Brodie went there. Dele realized they were in Jolo island, in the southwest Philippines, and the nervousness on his face made it clear that it was not the kind of place anyone would want to be. Brodie worked as a pilot for Trailblazer Airlines, and before flying out of Singapore, he and his copilot, Samuel Dele, noticed that there was a possibility of a storm coming their way.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Plane' on VOD, the Continuation of the Gerard ... (Decider)

Our man Gerard Butler has strung together a few good genre films recently.

THEN he eyes a road on the island in the water, and sets this hunk of junk down just in the nick. It achieves takeoff and lands on the runway satisfactorily and satisfyingly, and aren’t you glad I didn’t plane-pun my way through this review? But little do the bad guys know, ol’ Cap’n Brodie isn’t just a highly competent pilot who’s steely under pressure, but he can leverage a mofo into a nasty chokehold, and also take a punch, which is a good thing, because he’s about to take more than a few. Of course he’s going to clench his teeth and sweat from his eyeballs as he grips the yoke and yells WE NEED ALL THE THRUST WE CAN GET and WE’RE LOSING ALTITUDE. As a wise man once said, this is a dilly of a pickle. Brodie calls in the head flight attendant Bonnie (Daniella Pineda) and says to her the thing we absolutely thought he’d have to say: “I never thought I’d have to say this: Prepare to ditch.” Brodie kisses a photo of his daughter and late wife (insert twinge of sadness here) and eyes the water. They’re not sure where they are and they have no means of communicating with the execs and whoever sitting in a dark board room, most crucially the owner of the airline (Paul Ben-Victor) and the black-ops chief (Tony Goldwyn) called in to help. Brodie Torrance (Butler) to fight through a storm and save a few dimes on fuel instead of taking a longer route from Singapore to Tokyo. Now let’s see, red blobs on the weather radar, homicide suspect, an itch to get this over with – none of it bodes well. [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/storefront?filterId=OFFER_FILTER%3DPRIME&tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2023/02/04/plane-streaming-movie-review/&asc_source=web)), and that winking sub-minimalist purposely idiotic title is far better in its blatant genericism than something like, I dunno, Tarmac of Terror or Plane Has Fallen or The Unlikely Heroism of the Pilot Brodie Torrance. [PLANE](https://decider.com/movie/plane/): STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

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Gerard Butler at the helm of surprisingly good film 'Plane' (Erwin Record)

"Plane” didn't get much advertising and has gotten very little attention from critics or fans. But almost all of those who have seen the movie enjoyed it.

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A near-collision between 2 planes in Austin prompts an FAA ... (NPR)

Just before a FedEx cargo airplane was due to land, an air traffic controller cleared the Southwest flight to depart from the same runway.

"The Southwest flight departed safely." Shortly before the FedEx aircraft was due to land, an air traffic controller cleared the Southwest flight to depart. "The pilot of the FedEx airplane discontinued the landing and initiated a climb out," the FAA said in a statement.

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Small plane crashes in rural Washington County (CBS News)

Authorities say a pilot has minor injuries Saturday evening after he crashed a plane in rural Washington County.

for more features. He was then transported to the hospital with minor injuries. The Washington County Sheriff's Office says it received a 911 call from the pilot just after 4:30 p.m.

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U.S. investigates aborted FedEx landing in Texas, two planes ... (Reuters)

The Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board are investigating an aborted landing in Austin, Texas, ...

The Southwest plane had not yet departed when the FedEx plane was nearing the runway. The FAA said FedEx Express Flight 1432, a Boeing 767 cargo plane, which had departed from Memphis, was cleared to land on Runway 18-Left around 6:40 a.m. Kennedy Airport after air traffic controllers noticed a Boeing 777 had crossed from an adjacent taxiway. Southwest declined to comment. [(FDX.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/FDX.N) cargo plane that had been set to land on a runway on which a Southwest Airlines [(LUV.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/LUV.N) jet was also cleared to depart from, the agencies said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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Collision averted at Austin airport; FAA, NTSB to investigate (Austin American-Statesman)

Air traffic controller in Austin gave go-ahead for Southwest jet to take off on same runway that Fedex cargo plane was cleared to land on.

[last month](https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-federal-aviation-administration-john-cox-5614264cb16226a7e0e25a2cae892c7e) after an American Airlines plane crossed a runway while a Delta Airlines' Boeing 737 plane was preparing for takeoff. The Southwest flight, 708, destination Cancun, was able to depart safely, according to the FAA. But just before it was expected to land on Runway 18 Left, an air traffic controller gave the go-ahead for an airplane operated by Southwest Airlines to take off.

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FedEx cargo plane almost crashing into Southwest Airlines plane ... (Daily Mail)

The FAA is investigating aborted landing in Austin, Texas, after a FedEx cargo plane almost landed on a runway on which a Southwest plane was about to ...

We will assist our FAA partners and their investigation as necessary.' Data from flight tracking websites suggest the two planes came very close indeed. - The FedEx Boeing 767 had been cleared to land while a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 had also been cleared to depart on the same runway

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2 planes avoid crash after possible air traffic control mishap at Austin ... (CBS News)

A FedEx cargo jet was attempting to land when a Southwest Airlines jet was cleared to take off from the same runway, the FAA said.

The Delta plane stopped about 1,000 feet from where the American Airlines plane had crossed from an adjacent taxiway, according to the FAA statement. The plane landed at the airport about 11 minutes later, at 6:51 a.m., per FlightAware. But just before it was expected to land, an air traffic controller gave the go-ahead for an airplane operated by Southwest Airlines to take off. We will assist our FAA partners and their investigation as necessary." [FlightAware](https://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX1432/history/20230204/0945Z/KMEM/KAUS/tracklog), the FedEx plane had descended to an altitude of about 150 feet at 6:40 a.m. The Boeing 767 cargo airplane was several miles from the airport when it was cleared to land at about 6:40 a.m.

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