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Airplane - a parody of what?

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Two really good movies! I think Airplane was also a satire on Airport (?).

But Airport didn't have a scene where a stewardess had to use the emergency tube to inflate the auto pilot ...
 
NutmegCT said:
Two really good movies! I think Airplane was also a satire on Airport (?).

But Airport didn't have a scene where a stewardess had to use the emergency tube to inflate the auto pilot ...
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I know there were some definite Airport themes in there.
 
One of my favorite scenes:


(And it's happened to me more times than I can count ...)
 
Arthur Hailey wrote all of them it appears.
 
I surely wondered when someone would say that,.
 
I had heard that "Airplane!" borrowed heavily from "Zero Hour". I watched "Zero Hour" on Youtube. Could not keep a straight face, it was obviously heavily copied for "Airplane!", even though it wasn't a comedy.
 
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