Top 10 Airplane Crush Movies

Airplane crush is undoubtedly one of the most terrible thing in reality, which is a nightmare for everyone. But such a nightmare inspired filmmakers. The big and small air disasters in history have resulted in a lot of serious tragedies, and unexpectedly made people produce a series of excellent films.

United 93, which was adapted from the real ''911 incident''. Flight 750 was adapted from the ''Helios Airways fight 522'' event. And Alive which telled the Andes flight disaster. These films based on realistic air crashes and we can know filmmakers' attitude. According to these films the audience will have an intuitive feeling for the fear and danger of the air crash. There is a airplane crush movie list below and pick your favorite one.


Release Date
1993-01-15
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Touchstone Pictures
  • Director : Frank Marshall
  • Stars : Josh Hamilton , Bruce Ramsay , Ethan Hawke
  • The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
Release Date
1990-07-03
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Gordon Company
  • Director : Renny Harlin, Annette Haywood-Carter, Susana Preston
  • Stars : Bruce Willis , Bonnie Bedelia , William Sadler
  • Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
Release Date
2016-09-09
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Kennedy/Marshall Company, The, Malpaso Productions
  • Director : Arusha Baker, David M. Bernstein, Clark Credle
  • Stars : Tom Hanks , Aaron Eckhart , Laura Linney
  • On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.
Release Date
2012-11-02
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Parkes/MacDonald Productions
  • Director : Steve Starkey, Luca Kouimelis, Robert Zemeckis
  • Stars : Denzel Washington , Don Cheadle , Kelly Reilly
  • Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
Release Date
2006-04-28
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures, StudioCanal
  • Director : Elizabeth West, Paul Greengrass, Tom Brewster
  • Stars : Polly Adams , Opal Alladin , Starla Benford
  • A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Release Date
2005-09-23
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : Imagine Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures
  • Director : Robert Schwentke, Judi Townsend, Wilma Garscadden-Gahret
  • Stars : Jodie Foster , Peter Sarsgaard , Erika Christensen
  • Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
Release Date
2014-02-28
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Canal+, StudioCanal
  • Director : Jaume Collet-Serra, Eva Z. Cabrera, Christopher Surgent
  • Stars : Liam Neeson , Julianne Moore , Scoot McNairy
  • Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.
Release Date
2004-12-17
  • Rate : 6.1
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Davis Entertainment
  • Director : John Moore, Cecile Defosse, Nada Pinter
  • Stars : Dennis Quaid , Tyrese Gibson , Giovanni Ribisi
  • When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
Release Date
1997-07-25
  • Rate : 6.5
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures Corporation, Beacon Communications
  • Director : Wolfgang Petersen, David M. Dunlap, Paula Case
  • Stars : Harrison Ford , Gary Oldman , Glenn Close
  • When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Release Date
1997-06-06
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Kouf/Bigelow Productions
  • Director : Simon West, P.R. Tooke, Karin Anderson
  • Stars : Nicolas Cage , John Malkovich , John Cusack
  • Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.