Posted on 01/20/2019 10:15:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
Rumack: You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.
Yes.
A small amount of something carried on one of the passengers, probably the one who died. Or it could have been left in the seat pocket by the maintenance crew.
It's been done before.
It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash, then the poison goes to work on the central nervous system, severe muscle spasms followed by the inevitable drooling.
At this point, the entire digestive system collapses accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence
Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering wasted piece of jelly.
“I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue.”
You fly PJ?
Good for you.
Panic attacks release adrenaline into the body which can cause dilated pupils, increased heart rate, and increased respiration.
[Randy is crying]
Rumack: Randy, are you all right?
Randy: Oh, Dr. Rumack, I’m scared. I’ve never been so scared. And besides, I’m 26 and I’m not married.
Rumack: We’re going to make it, you’ve got to believe that.
[a woman passenger comes in]
Mrs. Hammen: Dr. Rumack, do you have any idea when we’ll be landing?
Rumack: Pretty soon, how are you bearing up?
Mrs. Hammen: Well, to be honest, I’ve never been so scared. But at least I have a husband.
[Randy cries harder]
[Flashback, about a bar he frequented during the war]
Ted Striker: It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It’s worse than Detroit.
I believe the old “Who had the fish?” refers to an older movie (Zero Hour! (1957) from long before AIRPLANE used the same plot.
Today people only remember the AIRPLANE skit.
I must admit, once back in 1970, I used the Zero Hour plot to convince some people I was working with I had landed a KC-135 on Guam. I didn’t.
Yes, Airplane! pretty much is a rehash of Zero Hour! The writers admitted as much.
I suspect someone did not shower or had heavy perfume on...
: )
Actually 2 of the symptoms of hyperventilation ( which can be caused by panic) are dilated pupils and a sensation of shortness of breath.
“Dilated pupils, supressed heart rate creating a sensation of difficult breathing.”
A sensation?
Like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eox1ogr3SE
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Yes, a sensation. Breathing is not the problem, a lack of red blood cells flowing through is the problem.
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