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During their respective hospital sojourns, both survivors encounter Vaughan (Elias Koteas), a scientist who had been a well-known TV personality until a near-fatal motorcycle accident made him obsessed with the erotic possibilities of highway crashes.
When an airliner crashes, the papers quickly announce that it's a Boeing or an Airbus--why should this be different?
So previous terrorism-related Korea Air crashes and/or TWA 800 get trotted out, and the NYT wonders whether the aircrew was familiar with the Guam airport.
They found that drivers of air-bag-equipped cars initiate a disproportionate number of crashes involving fatalities, and that, as a result, the occupants of such cars are at considerably higher risk than those in cars without air bags.
No, it's something more amorphous, like, "Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated?"