Plane

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,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

"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.

Plane is an action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet and starring Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An and Tony Goldwyn.

He developed an interest in acting at a young age and soon started attending the Scottish Youth Theatre. Throughout the years, Butler has become well-known for his hard-hitting action roles in films such as 300, Law Abiding Citizen, and Olympus Has Fallen. So far it has recovered 26 million dollars in the United States (in theater houses) to which one needs to add the rest of the world and later streaming and others…

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. [ Chinese balloon](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/asia/us-china-spy-balloon-mission-intl-hnk-ml/index.html), which was [shot down](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23/index.html\) by the US military Saturday afternoon over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after the Federal Aviation Agency issued a ground stop for three airports in the Carolinas. 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$). Then the world will really know — and America can demonstrate, just as the Soviets did with Powers’ mission so long ago. 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. [third such launch](https://www.space.com/china-launches-three-spy-satellites-orbit) of similar satellites and China’s 54th last year. The Biden Administration has And the Pentagon also reported another balloon was flying over Latin America. 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. 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,

In the film, the actor plays pilot Brodie Torrance who ends up landing his commercial airliner in a war zone because of a storm. Once they land though, the ...

So it was messy and it was exhausting. “Yeah, and it was something I had to pitch to everybody,” he confirmed. And that was the result of the actor internalizing the role as he shot it. “So it’s desperate and it’s messy and it’s exhausting. “I was in simulators for as much as I could and then our cockpit was really … [the ripped King Leonidas in 300](http://www.thethings.com/gerard-butler-insane-training-nearly-ruined-his-body-300/)), but the actor insists that this is not the case when it comes to his playing pilot Brodie Torrance in Plane. “I sometimes think I prefer that, prefer it to the performance. Yeah, he needs those skills, but he’s not prepared for the world that he’s about to enter into. Is this something that has potential?” And it did all those things.” “Then you can actually get in more detail to these characters and how they react to that situation. In the film, the actor plays pilot Brodie Torrance who ends up landing his commercial airliner in a war zone because of a storm. [his Has Fallen movies](http://www.thethings.com/gerard-butler-net-worth-fallen-movies/) lately, [the Scottish star](http://www.thethings.com/8-fun-and-interesting-facts-about-gerard-butler/#gerard-butler-was-born-and-brought-up-in-scotland) returns to the big screen with his latest action flick, Plane.

The most popular movie in an action icon's entire ass-kicking career tears up the playbook on streaming ... Gerard Butler almost exclusively makes what could ...

[almost exclusively makes what could broadly be described as Gerard Butler movies](https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/gerard-butler-feels-complimented-and-humiliated-after-being-called-king-of-the-b-movie/), and while nobody wants to be typecast or pigeonholed, the results speak for themselves. Luckily, Mike Colter’s convicted murderer Louis Gaspare picks up the slack on that end, with at-home viewers getting their kicks out of Plane this weekend. Pilot Brodie Torrance gets a lot more than he bargained for when he’s forced to make an emergency landing over enemy terrain, and it’s admittedly a novelty seeing the notorious neck-snapper refuse to kill anybody.

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.

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.

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

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