Movie that foreshadowed a tragic true event.

[krautmaster]

Contagion with Matt Damon-- 8 years before Covid-19... scary parallels

 

[Mr Boochie]

The movie Is an English film called Highway in the Sky with Jimmy Stewart. He plays a scientist that predicts the failure of the tail on a new airliner do to stress. The movie came out in 1951. That's one year before the de Havilland Comet entered service in 1952. The Comet de Havilland Comets suffered 3 explosive decompression. When tested they found that the windows squares corners concentrated stress to a small point inducing a crack and the following explosive decompression. Changing to rounded corners on the windows solved the problem. The damage was done and people didn't want to fly on the Comet even though after the repairs and upgrade it was a good airplane.

I remember seeing a documentary on the Comet. The engineers did not consider the added stress of flying a pressurized airplane at higher altitudes. I think the pressure increases exponentially with each 1000 foot rise in altitude above 25,000 feet (or something like that).

 

[motorstereo]

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors album released 3 days before the plane crash with the members on the cover in flames comes to mind here.

 

[egellings]

Of course, the obvious one is "1984"
I'd like to say "Soylent Green" but we're not quite there yet.

When I saw Soylent Green and walked out of the theater after it finished, it was dead silent. People didn't say a word after they knew what Soylent Green was made of.

 

[needforspeed]

THE TOWERING INFERNO X 2 unfortunately

 

[ernieb1536]

Wait!, , , , you mean "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Signal 30" weren't filmed AFTER the fact????

Damn

Who Knew

Takes me back to drivers ed days ! lol