Trans-Con Airlines logo
Trans-Con Airlines (TCA) is an American airline in the movie "Turbulence", "Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying" and "Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal". The airline's livery is based on Japan Airlines but the aircraft sports US flags, so the airline is American. The airline has 2 slogans which are: "Over land, over sea, fly with Trans-Con Airlines" and the 2nd use in the sequel of 1999 is "Sit, relax and enjoy".
The plot and the airline revolves around in 1997, a convicted murder (Weaver) is transported on a public TCA flight to Los Angeles. Even though it is Christmas Eve, and a Boeing 747, this flight has very few people on board. Just 8 others and Stubbs, another prisoner being escorted breaks free and shoots all the air marshals and the copilot and pilot are killed in the chaos. When trying to save the last Air Marshall, Weaver kills Stubbs while he fails and the Air Marshall is shot dead. Now few people are still alive onboard, and along with Weaver, a flight stewardess Halloran, is the only hope to land the aircraft, which she does successfully.
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Accidents & Incidents[]
A 8 person 747 Trans-Con flight from New York to Los Angeles, nearly ends in disaster after some prisoners aboard the flight break free and attack as well as kill the air marshals and Pilots, leaving one person arrested for a murder he did not commit and a flight attendant to land the plane. The plane lands successfully as a Fighter Jet escorts them, but not before multiple people were killed of course.
The aircraft[]
The aircraft in the film livery in February 1996.
The aircraft used to portray the stricken jetliner was a Tower Air 747-238, line number 195 and serial number 20534. It was originally delivered to Qantas in August 1972 as VH-EBE and flew with them until May 1986. It then went to PEOPLExpress until early '87 when it went to Continental Airlines as N10024. Continental later leased it to Tower Air as N614FF from May 1993 until February 1997 when it went back to Continental. It was retired in 1999 to Mojave and was later blown up in a demolition test in the late 2000s.
Trivia[]
- There are a few inconsistencies in the movie to suggest that they used a different aircraft for filming certain scenes. For instance, the plane shown being refueled is a 747-400, yet the flight engineer manuals in the cockpit indicate a 747-200, as do shots and dialogue during the remainder of the movie.
- Trans-Con Airlines' livery is loosely based on Japan Airlines in their 1989 to 2002.
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