To create the volatile aftermath of the plane crash, the film company transported a retired 25-year-old Boeing 727 from an aircraft graveyard in Northern California to the Lake Piru area, north of Los Angeles. Here, aircraft engineering specialists reassembled the 25-ton, 160-foot plane and lowered it onto an unused bridge over the Piru River bed. On this location, in an arduous week of complex night shooting, Bernie LaPlante (Dustin Hoffman) carries out his improvised rescue of injured reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis), pinned in the wreckage, and 53 other desperate passengers amidst fire, rain, and smoke, punctuated by increasingly large explosions. Claustrophobic, smoke-filled interiors of the plane during and after the crash were filmed in another Boeing 727 airplane on a soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios. Pre-crash interior scenes were shot in a pristine airliner mock-up set at Universal Studios.

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