Editing Airplane! (section)

==Influence==
[[Peter Farrelly]] said of the film: "I was in [[Rhode Island]] the first time I saw ''Airplane!'' Seeing it for the first time was like going to a great rock concert, like seeing [[Led Zeppelin]] or the [[Talking Heads]]. We didn't realize until later that what we'd seen was a very specific kind of comedy that we now call the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker school".<ref name=nytimes1/> Farrelly, along with his writing partner Bennett Yellin, sent a comedy script to David Zucker, who in return gave them their first Hollywood writing job. Farrelly said: "I'll tell you right now, if the Zuckers didn't exist, there would be no [[Farrelly brothers]]".<ref name="nytimes1"/>

During the [[Qantas Flight 72]] incident over the Indian Ocean west of [[Australia]] in 2008, the captain recited some of Lloyd Bridges' lines to relieve tension while trying to land the plane. This was commented in the ''[[Air Disasters]]'' episode "Free Fall".

The 2010 documentary ''[[Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story]]'' opens with a scene from the film, in which a passenger is offered the very short book ''Famous Jewish Sports Legends'' by a flight attendant.<ref name=latimes1>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-19-la-et-jews-baseball-20101119-story.html|author=Kenneth Turan|title=Movie review: 'Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 19, 2010|access-date=December 12, 2010|archive-date=December 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204034008/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/19/entertainment/la-et-jews-baseball-20101119|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=jewsandbaseball1>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/film1.html|title=Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story|publisher=Jewsandbaseball.com|access-date=December 12, 2010|archive-date=August 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811064202/http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/film1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[MythBusters]]'' TV show episode "Airplane Hour" reenacted the climax of the film to see if an inexperienced pilot could land a plane with only a call from Air Traffic Control. The Mythbusters had to use a simulation to test the myth but concluded that the scene was plausible. They did, however, mention that most planes today have an autopilot to land the plane safely.

In the 2012 film ''[[Ted (film)|Ted]]'', main character John Bennett tells the story of how he met Lori Collins. The flashback is a close recreation of the scene where Ted Striker met Elaine Dickinson in the disco.<ref name="HuffPost">{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ryan/ted-25-questions_b_1619250.html|title='Ted': Will 'Ted' Make You Feel Guilty For Laughing?|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=June 22, 2012|access-date=October 9, 2013|archive-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312034420/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ryan/ted-25-questions_b_1619250.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In early 2014, [[Delta Air Lines]] began using a new on-board safety film with many 1980s references, featuring an ending with a [[cameo appearance|cameo]] of [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] reprising his role as co-pilot Roger Murdock.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/delta-airlines-promotes-safety-1980s-themed-video-article-1.1595323|title=SEE IT: Delta Airlines promotes safety in 1980s-themed video|author=Joel Landau|date=January 29, 2014|access-date=June 9, 2014|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714215649/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/delta-airlines-promotes-safety-1980s-themed-video-article-1.1595323|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2014, Travel [[Wisconsin]] began airing an ad with Robert Hays and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reprising their roles from the film. Kareem makes the comment "Why did I ever leave this place?" referring to his time playing for the [[Milwaukee Bucks]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kareem |url=http://www.nba.com/bucks/features/boeder-140303 |website=The Official Site of the Milwaukee Bucks |access-date=January 30, 2016 |archive-date=February 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206053916/http://www.nba.com/bucks/features/boeder-140303 |url-status=deviated}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nba.com/bucks/news/MB_071121.html|title = Kareem: The return of the King|date = November 21, 2007|access-date = January 29, 2016|website = The Official Site of the Milwaukee Bucks|publisher = National Basketball Association|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202183302/http://www.nba.com/bucks/news/MB_071121.html|archive-date = February 2, 2017|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.jsonline.com/sports/lew-alcindor-jersey-sells-for-95600-gh8t6pv-192796261.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114075628/http://www.jsonline.com/sports/lew-alcindor-jersey-sells-for-95600-gh8t6pv-192796261.html |archive-date=January 14, 2015 |title=Lew Alcindor jersey sells for $95,600 |date=February 24, 2013 |access-date=January 29, 2016 |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]] |url-status=dead}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Hays also reprises his role as an airline pilot in ''[[Sharknado 2: The Second One]]''.

The first episode of the eighth season of the TV series ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'' re-enacts certain scenes.