Oceanic Airlines
Fictional airline featured in several creative works
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Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Airways, is the name of a fictional airline used in several films and television programs—typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.[1] Columnist Daryna Tobey compared its prevalence to that of 555 telephone numbers on television.[2]
History
Oceanic Airlines first appeared in the 1965 two-part episode "The Ditching" of the television series Flipper.[1] It later appeared in the 1996 film Executive Decision, and footage of the Oceanic Airlines plane in that film was reused as stock footage for several works.[1][3] Appearances since include the 1996 film Executive Decision, the 2004–2010 television series Lost, the 2011 video game Dead Island, and a number of others.[1]
Ill-fated
The fictional airline typically appears in works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.[1] In the 2004–2010 television series Lost, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashes on an island in the Pacific Ocean.[1][2] Before launching the season 4 episode Confirmed Dead, a marketing company was launched with the help of the alternate reality game Find 815.[citation needed]
Actual aircraft
The actual aircraft used for most of the film Executive Decision was a Boeing 747-269B with the aircraft registration number N707CK. It was scrapped in 2004 after service with Ocean Airlines as S2-ADT.[4] The crash and ground scenes were filmed at Mojave Airport with a different aircraft, a retired Boeing 747-121. It stayed there retired after the filming, painted in Oceanic Airlines colors (with a dark hole painted on the fuselage), marked with the fake registration number N707CK;[5] its actual registration numbers during service were N754PA, LX-FCV, and F-GIMJ.[4]