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A silver and blue Eastern Air Lines TriStar taxiing at LaGuardia with the Manhattan skyline behind it
Essay · 6 min read

The Plane That Played Flight 815

In the story it is a Boeing 777. On the beach it was a 1972 Lockheed TriStar that Delta had retired.

The plane itself: N308EA at LaGuardia in 1987, seventeen years before it played Flight 815. Photo: G B_NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0

Light spoilers

This essay is about the real airliner behind the wreck. It covers the crash in the first episode and production news from later years, but no story past the Pilot.

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