What is your favorite airplane film?

Whether it is a high-octane dogfight at Mach speed, a desperate mid-air hostage crisis, or a black comedy where nobody can fly the plane, these movies put aircraft at center stage. Which one is your all-time favorite?

1. 1
   Airplane!

   The 1980 parody masterpiece by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker that turned aviation disaster films into the ultimate comedy.
   1000pts

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2. 2
   Sully

   Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2016.
   679pts
3. 3
   Top Gun: Maverick

   The 2022 blockbuster sequel where an older Maverick trains a new generation of pilots for an impossible mission.
   678pts
4. 4
   Non-Stop

   Liam Neeson as an air marshal who must identify a killer threatening to eliminate passengers one by one mid-flight.
   555pts
5. 5
   Top Gun

   The 1986 Tony Scott classic starring Tom Cruise as hotshot Navy pilot Maverick, defining a generation of aerial action cinema.
   555pts
6. 6
   The Aviator

   Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, exploring his obsessive quest to push aviation to its absolute limits.
   396pts
7. 7
   Snakes on a Plane

   Samuel L. Jackson battles venomous snakes released on a flight in this gloriously absurd 2006 action film.
   396pts
8. 8
   United 93

   Paul Greengrass's harrowing 2006 recreation of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers.
   396pts
9. 9
   Air Force One

   Harrison Ford as the U.S. President who fights back when terrorists hijack his plane in this 1997 action thriller.
   396pts
10. 10
    Flight

    Denzel Washington plays a skilled but troubled pilot who miraculously lands a failing plane in Robert Zemeckis's 2012 drama.
    396pts
11. 11
    Con Air

    Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich star in this 1997 action thriller about convicts who hijack their own prison transport plane.
    396pts