Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II The Sequel titled Flying High II The Sequel in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines is a 1982 American parody film. It is the sequel to the 1980 film Airplane. Released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono. The team who wrote and directed the original Airplane Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker had no involvement with this sequel.
On the flight crew are Captain Clarence Oveur Peter Graves, Navigator Dunn James A. Watson, Jr. and First Officer Dave Unger Kent McCord. Also on board is computer officer Elaine Dickinson Julie Hagerty. Elaine has long left Ted Striker Robert Hays and is now engaged to one of the flight crew, Simon Kurtz Chad Everett. Striker has in the meantime been committed to an insane asylum, as he was declared mentally incompetent in a lawsuit following a test flight that Ted piloted and in which the lunar shuttle crashed. Striker believes that the lawsuit was used to silence him, because he knew there were problems with the lunar shuttle that made it unsafe, and he is once more haunted by his actions in The War, specifically the events that took place over Macho Grande, where he lost his entire squadron. When Striker reads of the upcoming lunar shuttle launch, he escapes the asylum and buys a ticket for the flight.During the flight, Mayflower One suffers a short circuit, causing the artificially intelligent computer ROK to go insane and send the ship toward the Sun. Unger and Dunn try to deactivate the computer, but are blown out of an airlock. Oveur tries to stop ROK, but the computer gasses him. Kurtz abandons Elaine and leaves in the only escape pod. Once again, Striker is called upon to save the day, but first he has to figure out how to make the computer relinquish control. Steve McCroskey Lloyd Bridges, the air traffic controller, reveals that a passenger named Joe Seluchi Sonny Bono had boarded Mayflower One with a bomb in a briefcase, intending to commit suicide so that his wife can collect on insurance money. Striker manages to wrestle the bomb from Seluchi and uses it to blow up ROK and set course for the Moon as originally intended. ........
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