The best airplane disaster movies

1AIRPORT (1970)

THE thriller about a bomber on a plane took off with cinema audiences and led to a string of other airplane disaster blockbusters. Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin were among the original cast.

2AIRPLANE! (1980)

HIGH-FLYING comedy spoof that poked fun at the popular airplane disaster movies of the 1970s. Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges were among those on board for the flights of humour.

3ALIVE (1993)

BASED on a real life plane crash in the remote Andes, the film portrayed the lengths some of the passengers had to go to in order to survive the harsh conditions and reach help.

4FINAL DESTINATION (2000)

A GROUP of students narrowly escape boarding a plane that explodes shortly after takeover, but Death starts stalking the survivors who avoided their fate the first time round.

5SNAKES ON A PLANE (2006)

SAMUEL L Jackson finds himself co-starring with a plane full of slithering poisonous snakes that have been released to kill a witness planning to testify against a mob boss.

6UNITED 93 (2006)

REAL-LIFE story of the passengers of United 93 who fought back after their flight was hi-jacked on 9/11.

7FLIGHT (2012)

DENZEL Washington stars as an airline pilot who saves the lives of his passengers after a malfunction causes the plane to crash ... but then his problems really begin.