#51: Oceanic Airways in Film
Airlines shun movie depictions of disasters, avoiding litigation risks by bypassing the use of real names. Thus, fictional carriers like Oceanic Airways emerge as go-to entities for hijacking and accident narratives across various films.
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Oceanic Airways, a make-believe carrier, debuted in the 1996 thriller Executive Decision. It’s notorious in cinematic universes for disaster scenarios, appearing in titles like Lost and Nowhere to Land. This fictional entity would top disaster records if it were real.