Runway 34 SULLIFIED by Devgn in the best possible way! I wasn't expecting an Indian version of Sully, but even if it is, it is really a good one.
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Although the Indian thriller “Runway 34” claims to be inspired by a real life incident from 2015, the plot is uncannily similar to Denzel Washington's 2012 American drama “Flight” which also claims to have been loosely inspired by a similar incident in the US. Too many similarities and coincidences here.
Indian Aviation News notes that a mayday call was made amid the chaos. According to the Hindustan Times, the flight's captain couldn't see the runway on the final attempt, and had to resort to going blindly. The incident was ultimately classified as serious, with the captain being demoted as a result.
583: The Tenerife airport disaster, which occurred on March 27, 1977, remains the accident with the highest number of airliner passenger fatalities. 583 people died when a KLM Boeing 747 attempted to take off and collided with a taxiing Pan Am 747 at Los Rodeos Airport on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain.
Based on true events, the film comes with the tagline, “The truth is hidden 35,000 feet above the ground.” In a new video on Instagram, Ajay Devgn revealed why he chose Runway 34 as the film's title. He said, “It's like the runway of life zero visibility, no vision, dangerous brace for impact.”
Pan-Pan, short for “possible assistance needed,” is used to communicate an urgent, but not emergency, situation over VHF radio, in the case of aviation, to air traffic control. Examples could include a recreational pilot getting lost, or perhaps needing to climb to a higher altitude to sort a problem out.
(In 1957, the English phonetic alphabet changed the R to Romeo, but by that time, Roger was deeply embedded in the minds of pilots.) So, in short, Roger means r which stands for received. The word Roger means nothing more.