Ekipazh (1980)
Movie (1980)
Russian title: Экипаж
English title: Air Crew
Starring:
Georgi Zhzhyonov (Andrei Vasilyevich Timchenko, pilot captain)
Anatoliy Vasilev (Valentin Georgiyevich Nenarokov, co-pilot)
Leonid Filatov (Igor Skvortsov, flight engineer)
Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae (Tamara, stewardess and Skvortsov's fiancée)
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
First Part
Ilyushin Il-86
Tupolev Tu-134
This one is seen at the very last end of the second part.
Ilyushin Il-18
Tupolev Tu-154B2
Registration CCCP-85330 / SSSR-85330 Tupolev Tu-154B2 c/n 79A330 flew for Aeroflot until 1997. Sold to another Russian airline as RA-85330, it was scrapped in 2005.
Tupolev Tu-154A
Reg. CCCP-85074 / SSSR-85074 c/n 74A-074 built in 1974. Some sources list this as a Tu-154B.
Tupolev Tu-114
Reg. CCCP-76464 / SSSR-76464 gateguardian Tupolev Tu-114 of Aeroflot at Moscow Domodedovo Airport until 2006.
Mil Mi-8
Overflying flooded country.
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 205
Reg. F-BVFA Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 205 of Air France.
(background) First with an Air France Boeing 747 docked to one of the satelite of Terminal 1 at Aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle.
Next with a Boeing 727 in the background.
Boeing 707-300
TWA-Trans World Airlines livery of the late 70s.
Ilyushin Il-62M
With special red markings : "Official Olympic Carrier" on the fuselage.
Tupolev Tu-154A
Registration CCCP-85014 / SSSR-85014 Tupolev Tu-154A c/n 71A014.
Mil Mi-4
Mil Mi-2
Boeing 727
Airplane hickjacked ?
Note the aerial over the fuselage; so not a Tu-154 nor a Yak-40/42. Read the discussion tab.
Ilyushin Il-14
Soyuz capsule
Mil Mi-2
Reg. CCCP-20196 / SSSR-20196 (later RA-20196) Mil Mi-2 c/n 543617064 used by Aeroflot.
Boeing 747-228B
Boeing 747 of Air France.
Reg. F-BPVS Boeing 747-228B c/n 21326 of Air France between April 1977 and November 1994. Later sold to Sabena but scrapped at Chateauroux the same month.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Tupolev Tu-154B
Reg. CCCP-85223 / SSSR-85223 Tupolev Tu-154B with special red markings : "Official Olympic Carrier" between engines and Aeroflot airline name. In the distance an Airbus (A300 or A310).
(background) Reg. F-BLCA Boeing 707-328B c/n 18685-5205 of Air France. Better seen fifteen years before in Boeing Boeing.
Second Part
Action is set at the fictional mountainous airport of Bidri. An earthquake is destroying the runway and a dam and an oil refinery.
Yakovlev Yak-40
Unidentified Aircraft
Earthquake had broken the brakes and this "Lockheed L-1011" look alike is rolling into the terminal.
Tupolev Tu-114
Explosion and fire of the airliner (now clearly identified as a Tupolev Tu-114 minus its engines).
Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
Probably a machine sized at the end of the Vietnam War. Only seen on the ground (a mock is used for the flight).
Unidentified Aircraft
A first airliner (mock of a (western ?) twinjet) is trying to take off and failed.
Tupolev Tu-114
But the airframe in flames is the central part of a Tupolev Tu-114 (note the space between windows over the wing). This is a Continuity error : the Kuznetsov NK-12MV turboprops removed, the ill-fated twinjet is now a four engined burning plane ...
Tupolev Tu-154B
Registration CCCP-85131, c/n 75A-131.
First seen landing at Bridi airport then during the earthquake.
After several disaster, it's a mock which takes off.
... and eventually landed in a poor condition ! But the real airframe after a last flight on 05 October 1979, was used as instructional airframe at Krivoy Rog Technical School, Ukraine (at least until 2013).
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