We are often told that flying by plane is much safer than driving a car, especially if they want to sell us a ticket. But is this really true? Is it true that the aircraft crew and airport staff do everything for the comfort and safety of passengers?
Nothing like this! If you want to know what really happens on airplanes, come in! But keep in mind: if you have a flight soon, you risk changing your mind!
As you know, before takeoff, flight attendants ask passengers to turn off all electronic devices. If any meticulous passenger asks why this is necessary, he is usually told that his cell phone or laptop can interfere with the pilot’s conversations with air traffic controllers. In fact, this is not true. Let's start with the fact that, in principle, a device disconnected from the Internet is not capable of this, and on board, as a rule, there is no Wi-Fi. But there is no point in pointing this out to the flight attendants. They still won't tell you that what they're actually asking you to do is turn off your electronics so you can listen carefully to the flight attendants' explanation of how to use a life jacket and how to evacuate the plane. There are no other reasons to turn off electronics on board.
For a flight to break even, the airline needs to sell at least 75% of its seats. Therefore, cashiers undoubtedly book more seats than are actually available on the bot - after all, many passengers do not redeem their reservations! However, if all tickets are purchased, there will be more passengers on board than seats. Usually they try to solve this problem politely, offering passengers bonuses for agreeing to transfer to the next flight. But if there is a problem and no one agrees to change seats, the security service is allowed to take emergency measures - for example, by force removing extra passengers to allow the flight to depart on time.
Sometimes, if you look at an airplane wing, for example, you may notice that the round holes in the sheet metal where the screws hold the skin together are empty! This is a fairly common occurrence: screws tend to fly out of their places over time. However, according to the technical services, this is not dangerous: during the inspection of the aircraft, the technicians only make sure that there are not too many missing propellers.
According to the rules, pillows and blankets that are distributed to passengers on the plane must be washed every five days. During this time, the plane can make a dozen flights - which means you will have to use a blanket and pillow after several passengers, and it is not known how healthy. However, some airlines, in order to save money, do not comply with these deadlines, and you may well encounter a blanket that was last washed before the last New Year.
Each plane carries extra fuel in case it is necessary to avoid a thunderstorm or fly to the nearest airport if the destination airport is closed, for example, due to bad weather. But this reserve is not so large: it is only enough for 45 minutes of an additional flight. So if you're told there's a large storm front ahead, you can start counting the minutes! Of course, you are unlikely to fall, but if there is an excessive delay, landing at another airport is quite likely.
Passengers are often told that in the event of an accident, an oxygen mask can save their life. However, they are not warned that the oxygen supply in the cylinder is only enough for 12-15 minutes. If for some reason the plane does not manage to leave altitudes at which there is not enough oxygen during this time, the mask will become as useless as a cosmetic bag.
Although toilets and human waste tanks on airplanes are regularly treated with disinfecting reagents, they still contain bacteria, which over time become immune to all reagents. As for tap water, God forbid you drink it! Let's reveal an unpleasant secret: the inlets of the hoses for draining excrement and replenishing drinking water on the plane are half a meter apart and, quite likely, serve them in parallel... not necessarily in compliance with the maximum hygienic requirements.
A life jacket can save a passenger's life during a crash, but the scary fact is that many airplane seats don't have a life vest under them! Some passengers steal them as souvenirs, and airlines rarely check for them. As a result, of the 150 passengers on the famous flight 1549, which crashed on the Hudson in 2009, only 33 had vests! So before starting, it’s better to check whether you have this chance of salvation.
According to a 2015 US study, 56% of pilots fell asleep while flying a plane. Moreover, 29% had woken up to find that their co-pilot was also sleeping. And this is not funny at all: according to statistics, pilot fatigue is a danger three times greater than any other, capable of leading to a disaster.
It would seem that with the enormous responsibility that lies with the pilot, the designers of the cockpit should have taken care of everything so that nothing would distract the pilot from his duties. But that's not true! Pilots who had to fly westward in the afternoon often publicly complained that they had to cover the windows with improvised materials - from cards to trays - to prevent the evening sun from blinding their eyes. And although radars still accurately show the location of the plane, you must admit, it’s not very pleasant to know that the pilot of your airliner on a sunny evening is blind as a kitten!
After reviewing the full list of cargo on board an aircraft, the average passenger may be very shocked. The fact is that corpses, organs for transplantation, exotic animals, birds and reptiles are transported in the cargo compartment on the same rights as your souvenirs and fins from the resort. It’s not that it’s scary to think about it, but... somehow I don’t want to.
Rumor has it that pilots enjoy difficult landings in difficult conditions much more than passengers, considering them necessary to keep themselves in professional shape. When surveying Western European pilots, it turned out that many of them named Gibraltar, Naples and Madeira - the most difficult airports in Europe - as their favorite airports for landing. We hope this information will not spoil your mood before flying to these places.
A life jacket is an excellent means of rescuing passengers on an airplane that has made an emergency landing at sea. But only theoretically. Because in the history of modern aviation, no aircraft has ever made such a landing. So it’s impossible to say for sure whether a flashlight to attract the attention of rescuers and a whistle to scare away sharks will help you escape. Well, in more frequent types of crashes it is practically useless.
Have you ever wondered why flight attendants often close the doors of an airplane so early, which is not yet about to taxi, and open them so late after stopping? Experienced passengers claim that in a number of Western airlines, flight attendants receive flight allowances only for the time when the aircraft doors are closed. So it’s simply not in their interests to release you as quickly as possible.
A crowd of people in a confined space, stale air, a lot of dusty surfaces and not always neat passengers - it’s not for nothing that the plane is considered a breeding ground for infections. So, wipe the table thoroughly before lunch - many passengers change their children’s diapers on it. And under no circumstances take off your shoes in the cabin - there is a good chance that someone vomited on the floor on a previous flight.
Is it very typical for Russian planes to fall from Ukrainian missiles? Have you already counted a lot?
It sounds blasphemous to mention a Ukrainian missile after such events:
1 Malaysian Boeing shot down by a beech tree (the report of the Dutch prosecutor's office proves this irrefutably)
2 On the night of June 14, 2014, a military transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 was shot down by a shot from an anti-aircraft missile system and a long burst from a heavy machine gun while landing at the airfield in Lugansk. There were 40 Ukrainian military personnel and 9 crew members on board the Il-76. They all died. This feat was celebrated Wagnerians, who were in Ukraine at that time. The Ukrainian special service has documentary information that part of the “Wagnerites” fired at the Lugansk airport almost every day in the summer of 2014.
What if we remember history?
On September 1, 1983, a tragedy occurred in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, which some Russian sources bashfully call an “incident” to this day: a Soviet air defense fighter shot down a South Korean civilian airliner that violated the air border of the USSR. All 269 people on board, including 23 children, were killed.
Boeing 707 crash in Karel ai
Everyone is now hearing about the crash of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass. Less known, but nevertheless known about it, is the story of how a South Korean Boeing was shot down over the Soviet Far East on September 1, 1983. It turns out that this is not the first South Korean Boeing shot down over the Soviet Union. There was one more.
On April 20, 1978, in the area of the Kola Peninsula over the territory of the USSR, another South Korean Boeing 707 was shot down, flying on the route Paris - Anchorage - Seoul
On April 20, 1978, in the area of the Kola Peninsula, the USSR border was crossed by a diverted passenger Boeing-707-321B (HL7429) of Korean Air Lines (KAL), operating flight 902 - Paris-Anchorage-Seoul.
The Korean Boeing continued to fly towards Severomorsk. Dmitry Tsarkov, who in 1978 held the position of commander of the 21st Air Defense Corps of the USSR, reports to Vladimir Dmitriev, who at that time held the position of commander of the 10th Air Defense Army of the USSR, that the air defense is ready to shoot down the intruder. Dmitriev did not give permission, saying that we could shoot down our plane; the exact identity of the plane was not yet clear. The offender was walking at a speed of 15 kilometers per minute (900 km/h). At this time, the intruder crossed the border of the USSR. A flight of fighters was lifted into the sky.
The plane was detected by Soviet air defense radars and initially identified as a Boeing 747. The anti-aircraft missile system was put on alert. A Su-15TM fighter ("Flegon-F") under the control of Captain A. Bosov was sent to intercept.
According to the testimony of the captain of the airliner, Kim Chang Kee, the interceptor approached his plane from the right side (and not from the left, as required by the rules of the international civil aviation organization - ICAO). The captain states that he reduced his speed and turned on his navigation lights, indicating that he was ready to follow the Soviet fighter for landing. Attempts by Captain Kim Chang Kee to contact the interceptor pilot on frequency 121.5 were detected by the air traffic control tower in Rovaniemi, Finland. According to the official statement of the Soviet side, the airliner evaded the requirement to land. When the interceptor pilot reported that the intruder was in fact not a 747, but a Boeing 707, the command decided that it was an RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft (produced on the basis of the Boeing 707 airliner) and gave the order to destroy goals.
According to American radio intercepts, the interceptor pilot tried for several minutes to convince the command to cancel the order, because he saw the KAL airline emblem on the airliner and inscriptions in hieroglyphs, however, after confirming the order, he fired two P-60 missiles at the airliner. The first of them missed the target, and the second exploded, tearing off part of the left wing, causing depressurization of the aircraft and killing two passengers with fragments.
Due to depressurization of the cabin, the airliner began an emergency descent and disappeared from the radar screens of the Soviet air defense system. The interceptor pilot also lost the damaged airliner in the clouds.
Over the next hour, emergency flight 902 flew at low altitude across the entire Kola Peninsula, looking for a place for an emergency landing and, after several unsuccessful attempts, landed in the gathering dusk on the ice of Lake Korpiyarvi, already on the territory of Karelia. Throughout this entire time, the air defense had no information about the fate and location of the aircraft.
The USSR refused to cooperate in the investigation of this incident with international experts and did not provide data from the black boxes seized from the plane. The plane itself was dismantled and removed in parts. The Korean airline refused it so as not to pay for the evacuation of the plane. 95 passengers were taken to Kem, and then to Murmansk airport. On April 23, 1978, they were handed over to representatives of the US Consulate General in Leningrad and Pan American Airlines and sent to Helsinki. Su-15 pilot Captain A. Bosov was awarded the Order of the Red Star for completing a combat mission.
The Boeing commander, the highest-class pilot Lee Chang Hui, a former military pilot, managed to land a barely controllable 200-ton aircraft on a frozen lake. This saved the lives of the remaining passengers. The Boeing commander was later questioned. He said that he fought as a fighter pilot back in Vietnam. Finished fighting with the rank of colonel. Then he worked for 10 years in a civil airline, and also had 10 years of experience flying along the route of flight 902. He has been flying with this crew for 7 years. The last flight before this flight on this route was a week ago. The weather during the flight was good. When asked how you could have gone so off course, the commander replied that the navigation equipment had allegedly failed.
Years later, a flight map of Flight 902 was released based on declassified black box data, showing that the plane began a smooth, wide right turn shortly after reaching Iceland on the Amsterdam-Anchorage leg. This turn was too smooth to be done by hand, and The only explanation can be a malfunction of the navigation equipment.
Passenger airliners fly at different altitudes. They are considered a dangerous form of transport not only for this reason. If the fuselage body is not reliable, a crack may form in it due to the pressure difference. The result is depressurization of the aircraft. This will have negative consequences for crew members and passengers.
What happens during depressurization
Modern cinema provides the viewer with a lot of films in which plane crashes due to depressurization are shown in great detail. Many people, after watching these films, try not to fly. But is this really so? Is everything they show us true?
Surely everyone remembers physics lessons where they talked about atmospheric pressure. Its performance on the ground and in the sky are significantly different. Accordingly, the pressure inside the aircraft is not the same as in the space surrounding it during flight.
When depressurization occurs, pressure equalization occurs. Oxygen leaves the cabin. At altitudes intended for airliner flights, it is not enough to support life.
What happens to passengers? They can expect the following impacts:
- Low oxygen content in the air entering the cabin. As a result, oxygen starvation occurs. The head begins to spin and the person loses consciousness.
- Reducing the temperature in the cabin to −50º. Wind gusts at an altitude of more than 4000 km reach 600-800 km/h. Passengers experience frostbite in unprotected areas of their bodies.
- Sudden pressure drop. As a result, small blood vessels rupture. This negatively affects the functioning of the heart.
The first thing a person will encounter is a state of panic. You need to try to calm down and listen to the flight attendants' messages.
Important. Airlines equip aircraft with all the necessary equipment that is used in the event of cabin depressurization.
Causes
The integrity of an airliner depends on many factors. These include the following:
- Human factor. Depressurization of the cabin occurs due to the fault of a passenger or crew member. They may unintentionally press the emergency exit handle.
- Technical defects. This is the case if the sealed cladding layers cannot withstand the loads. Cracks appear in them.
- Mechanical impact. It occurs in the event of damage to the integrity of the fuselage with the skin (missile hit).
- Failure to comply with maximum permissible load standards. For each flight this indicator is calculated individually. If the airliner reaches a high altitude, its skin will not withstand the pressure.
To avoid depressurization during flight as a result of technical defects, designers equip airliners with durable frames and skins.
Important. Depressurization of the interior does not have a negative impact on engine operation. The plane continues to fly at the set speed limit.
Kinds
There are two types of cabin depressurization: emergency and planned. Emergency loss of sealing occurs for various reasons. Due to pressure changes, the plane breaks apart in parts. All people on board at this time are doomed.
Good to know! With minor damage, the casing retains its integrity. In this case, it is possible to control the situation.
Planned depressurization is carried out before landing. Aircraft are equipped with special valves. The pilot opens them, thereby equalizing the pressure in the cabin with the pressure outside.
Actions in case of depressurization
What to do if the aircraft cabin is depressurized? First of all, don't panic. In many cases, fatalities for passengers are recorded as a result of their chaotic and thoughtless actions.
Secondly, when the aircraft depressurizes, it is necessary to use oxygen masks. In the event of an emergency, they automatically fall out of special upper compartments.
The oxygen supply will allow passengers and crew members to breathe normally for 15 minutes. This time is enough for the pilot to lower the plane to an altitude of 3 km. At this air boundary, the air is not so rarefied, and there is a sufficient amount of oxygen in it.
Thirdly, you need to fasten your seat belts. This will prevent the passenger from falling out of the seat due to strong wind. If possible, you need to help your neighbor perform this action.
Everything else depends on the professionalism of the pilots and crew members. In many cases, disaster is avoided.
Known cases of depressurization
The first such incident was recorded in 1988. The plane was flying over the Hawaiian Islands. There was a sudden depressurization of the cabin. The casing and part of the main structure were damaged. Despite this, the plane was able to land. One of the crew members was fatally injured.
In 2005, a gradual depressurization of the cabin occurred in the airspace near Athens. As a result, the plane lost control and crashed into a mountain. 6 crew members and 115 passengers were killed.
In 2011, a hole appeared in a plane flying from Phoenix to Sacramento. Its diameter reached 1.5 m. Thanks to the well-coordinated work of the personnel, the airliner was able to land. No harm done.
In 2015, the plane depressurized at the Moscow airport 20 minutes before landing. He followed the route "Samara - Moscow". No one was injured as a result of this emergency.
I have always been interested in what people experience in a falling plane. Summarizing the experience of eyewitnesses who survived plane crashes, we can draw one interesting conclusion - the devil is not as terrible as he is painted...
First, be more afraid when driving to the airport. In 2014, over 33 million flights were made in the world, 21 plane crashes occurred (and most of the troubles in the sky occurred in cargo transportation), in which only 990 people died. Those. The probability of a plane crash is only 0.0001%. During the same year, in Russia alone, 26,963 people died in road accidents, and according to WHO, 1.2 million people die in road accidents in the world every year and about 50 million are injured.
Secondly, judging by the statistics, your chances of dying on an escalator in the subway or contracting AIDS are much greater than dying on an airplane. So the chance of dying in a plane crash is 1 in 11,000,000, while, for example, in a car accident - 1 in 5,000, so now it is much safer to fly than to drive a car. Moreover, every year aviation technology becomes safer. By the way, Africa remains the most unfavorable continent in terms of flight safety: only 3% of all flights in the world are carried out here, but 43% of plane crashes have occurred!
Thirdly, under severe overloads, you will not remember anything According to research by the Interstate Aviation Committee, the consciousness of a person in a falling plane is switched off. In most cases - in the very first seconds of the fall. At the moment of impact with the ground there is not a single person in the cabin who is conscious. As they say, the body’s defense reaction is triggered. This thesis is confirmed by those who managed to survive plane crashes. Silence also accompanies minor air incidents, video selection
Fourth, the experience of survivors of plane crashes. The story of Larisa Savitskaya is included in the Guinness Book of Records. In 1981, at an altitude of 5220 meters, the An-24 plane in which she was flying collided with a military bomber. 37 people died in that disaster. Only Larisa managed to survive.
I was 20 years old then,” says Larisa Savitskaya. - Volodya, my husband, and I were flying from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk. After takeoff, I immediately fell asleep. And I woke up from noise and screams. My face burned with cold. Then they told me that our plane’s wings were cut off and the roof was blown off. But I don’t remember the sky above my head. I remember it was foggy, like in a bathhouse. I looked at Volodya. He didn't move. Blood was gushing down his face. I somehow immediately realized that he was dead. And she prepared to die too. Then the plane fell apart and I lost consciousness. When I came to my senses, I was surprised that I was still alive. I felt like I was lying on something hard. It turned out to be in the aisle between the chairs. And next to it is a whistling abyss. There were no thoughts in my head. Fear too. In the state I was in - between sleep and reality - there is no fear. The only thing I remembered was an episode from an Italian film, where a girl, after a plane crash, soared in the sky among the clouds, and then, falling into the jungle, remained alive. I didn't expect to survive. I just wanted to die without suffering. I noticed the rungs of the metal floor. And I thought: if I fall sideways, it will be very painful. I decided to change position and regroup. Then she crawled to the next row of chairs (our row was near the rift), sat down in the chair, grabbed the armrests and rested her feet on the floor. All this was done automatically. Then I look - the ground. Very close. She grabbed the armrests with all her might and pushed herself away from the chair. Then - like a green explosion from larch branches. And again there was a loss of memory. When I woke up, I saw my husband again. Volodya sat with his hands on his knees and looked at me with a fixed gaze. It was raining, which washed the blood from his face, and I saw a huge wound on his forehead. Under the chairs lay a dead man and woman...
Later it was established that the piece of the plane, four meters long and three meters wide, on which Savitskaya fell, glided like an autumn leaf. He fell into a soft, marshy clearing. Larisa lay unconscious for seven hours. Then for two more days I sat in a chair in the rain and waited for death to come. On the third day I got up, started looking for people and came across a search party. Larisa received several injuries, a concussion, a broken arm and five cracks in the spine. You can’t go with such injuries. But Larisa refused the stretcher and walked to the helicopter herself.
The plane crash and the death of her husband remained with her forever. According to her, her feelings of pain and fear are dulled. She is not afraid of death and still flies calmly on airplanes.
Another case confirms the blackout. Arina Vinogradova is one of the two surviving flight attendants of the Il-86 plane, which in 2002, barely taking off, crashed into Sheremetyevo. There were 16 people on board: four pilots, ten flight attendants and two engineers. Only two flight attendants survived: Arina and her friend Tanya Moiseeva. They say that in the last seconds your whole life flashes before your eyes. This didn’t happen to me,” Arina tells Izvestia. - Tanya and I were sitting in the first row of the third cabin, at the emergency exit, but not in service chairs, but in passenger seats. Tanya is opposite me. The flight was technical - we just needed to return to Pulkovo. At some point the plane began to shake. This happens with IL-86. But for some reason I realized that we were falling. Although nothing seemed to happen, there was no siren or roll. I didn't have time to get scared. Consciousness instantly floated away somewhere, and I fell into a black void. I woke up from a sharp jolt. At first I didn’t understand anything. Then I gradually figured it out. It turned out that I was lying on a warm engine, littered with chairs. I couldn't unfasten myself. She started screaming, pounding on the metal and disturbing Tanya, who then raised her head and then lost consciousness again. The firefighters pulled us out and took us to different hospitals.
Arina still works as a flight attendant. The plane crash, she said, did not leave any trauma in her soul. However, what happened had a very strong impact on Tatyana Moiseeva. Since then, she no longer flies, although she has not left aviation.
Fifth, a plane crash is a positive experience for survivors! Scientists have come to a unique conclusion: people who survived plane crashes subsequently turned out to be healthier from a psychological point of view. They showed less worry, anxiety, did not become depressed and did not experience post-traumatic stress, unlike subjects from the control group who had never had such an experience.
In conclusion, I bring to your attention the speech of Rick Elias, who sat in the front row of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. You will find out what thoughts came to his mind as the doomed plane fell down...
Still afraid of flying?-)
"made it to the movie screens. Let's discuss how the ending described in the film's original script differs from the one we saw in theaters.
"Passengers" - the history of creation
In 2007, "Passengers" took a place on the blacklist - a list of the best Hollywood scripts that did not receive a film adaptation. For many years after this, the studios looked closely at the script, big names of actors allegedly assigned to the project were announced (Keanu Reeves, Emily Blunt), budget estimates were made (about $35 million), but it never came to filming. Ultimately, Sony Pictures acquired the film rights at auction and attached Passengers to direct. $110 million was allocated for the project, and Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence were invited to play the leading roles. And now the film has finally hit theaters. However, the reaction of critics and viewers to it turned out to be contradictory.
The plot of the film is simple: two passengers on a spaceship emerge from suspended animation 90 years ahead of schedule. It must be said that the promotional materials for Passengers created an impression of the film that was somewhat different from what the viewer encountered when coming to the cinema. The ethical dilemma faced by the main character was omitted.
"Passengers" - Jim's immoral decision
Jim woke up 90 years earlier than necessary. Unable to plunge back into suspended animation, he leads an idle life aboard a luxury ship. Realizing the bitter prospect of dying alone, Jim contemplates suicide. However, the hero finds another solution to the problem: he brings out another passenger, Aurora, from hibernation, thereby dooming her to the same fate. Of course, Jim doesn't tell Aurora anything about the reasons for her premature awakening. However, it is clear that the girl eventually gets to the bottom of the truth. Jim's actions are reprehensible, as the film's screenwriter Speights was reminded during an interview with io9, and this is what the screenwriter responded:
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“This is the central theme of the film. I think it's good when a film encourages viewers to debate what they would do in a similar situation. I don't think the movie condones Jim's actions or absolves him of responsibility. The picture is impartial. Placing the characters in difficult circumstances makes the film entertaining."
It's hard to argue that the immoral decision Jim makes early in the film is the most interesting thing about Passengers.
"Passengers" - the ending that could have been
The filmmakers certainly could have found a way to comprehensively analyze Jim's ethical quandary, rather than reduce the entire story to running around a collapsing ship. The third act of the film is pure action, which can be interpreted as an attempt to evade the solution to the question posed at the beginning of the film.
Indiwire critic David Ehrlich suggested the best ending to Passengers. According to Erlich, Jim should have died in the third act, and Aurora, having mourned the loss and suffered greatly from her lonely life on the ship, would have realized that she, like air, needed to wake up one more of the Avalon’s passengers. With such an ending, the moral problem highlighted at the beginning of the film would have received a worthy resolution. Ehrlich also admitted that the film could have been completed in the spirit of “The Twilight Zone,” leaving the ending open: Aurora’s decision could not have been revealed, inviting the audience to independently predict her choice.
Another option for improving the script is to turn Passengers into a thriller, and the main character into the main villain. Let's imagine a plot in which an obsessive admirer (Jim) and the object of his passion (Aurora) find themselves together in the confined space of a starship. Jim can't accept the fact that Aurora doesn't like him. In addition, the girl cannot forgive him for her premature awakening. At first we think of Jim as a good guy who did a bad thing, but gradually he becomes more and more aggressive in his attacks in Aurora, and it's really scary. Aurora comes to the conclusion that if she doesn’t stop Jim, then things won’t end well for her...
"Passengers" - the ending that exists
In the theatrical version of the film, Jim goes to great lengths to prevent the destruction of the ship. As a result, he finds himself in outer space - the cable that connects Jim to the Avalon breaks. Aurora does not have time to return the hero to the ship in time, and he dies. However, the girl does not give up and drags Jim into the autodoc. The miracle device brings Jim to his senses. Aurora is happy that the guy is alive and is no longer angry with him. Jim later discovers that the autodoc can return one person to suspended animation for the time remaining before the ship arrives at its destination. However, Aurora decides that it is better to live her whole life on the Avalon with Jim than to continue the journey.
"Passengers" - ending from the original script
The Slashfilm blog dug up the original version of the Passengers script on the Internet. In the ten years that passed from the idea of Passengers to the release of the film, the script underwent many changes. How much did Jon Spaihts change the plot? We think 85-90%. What was the ending of the film in the original script?
These differences concern not only the ending of the picture, but also the remaining acts. For example, Gus (Laurence Fishburne) originally died differently. He sought to repair the ship, even at the cost of his life. Having suffered too much, he chooses to commit suicide by going into outer space through the airlock without a spacesuit. However, it's not too different from what we saw in the film.
The real fun begins when Avalon's main computer reboots. The restarted electronics decide that the ship has already reached its destination and begins to massively “spit out” capsules with sleeping passengers directly into outer space. Jim runs to the deck with the capsules and tries to stop this process, but the attempt is unsuccessful. Then Chris Pratt's character rushes into the compartment with the crew members' capsules and at the last moment manages to wake up the captain.
Jim and Aurora sadly look through the window at five thousand capsules floating in outer space. Aurora says that if Jim hadn't woken her up, she would have been spinning outside with the rest of the Avalon's passengers. It turns out that Jim's action, which everyone initially condemned, was not so bad. However, when Jim broke Aurora's hibernation, he didn't know that things would turn out this way, and so he still hasn't made amends.
Jim and Aurora realize that they love each other and go for a walk along the outer hull of the ship. This is where the story of this couple ends, but the film itself does not end. 88 years pass and the Avalon arrives at its destination. The inhabitants of the colony arrive on the ship to meet the new arrivals. The doors open and a lot of children and adults come out of the Avalon. But where did these new passengers on the starship come from? At the beginning of the scenario, Aurora finds a genetic bank on the ship containing 5 thousand frozen sperm and eggs taken from the ship's passengers. “It’s good that they did this,” Aurora says. “When the ship arrives at its final destination, this little capsule in the freezer will be all that will be left of me.” It turns out that Jim and Aurora have started the process of growing people from cells left in the gene bank.
