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On October 14, 2011, Airline captain Whip Whitaker awakens in his Orlando hotel room with flight attendant Katerina Márquez after a night of sex, drinking, drug use, and very little sleep. After using cocaine to wake up, he boards SouthJet Flight 227 as pilot to Atlanta. After Whip threads the plane through severe turbulence at takeoff, copilot Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. He is jolted awake as the plane begins its descent, and the aircraft goes into a steep dive. Unable to regain pitch control, Whip rolls the plane upside down to arrest the dive. With the engines failing he realizes they will not make it to a runway, so he rolls the plane upright and manages to make a forced landing in a field. He loses consciousness on impact and is dragged out of the aircraft by a passenger.

Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with minor injuries, where he is greeted by his old friend Charlie Anderson, who represents the airline's pilots union. He tells Whip that he saved 96 out of 102 people on board, but an National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official informs him Katerina was among those killed.

While sneaking a cigarette in the stairwell, Whip meets Nicole, who is recovering from an overdose, and promises to visit her when they leave the hospital. In the morning, his friend and drug dealer, Harling Mays, picks him up and sneaks him away from the hospital. Whip drives to his late father's farm and dumps out all his alcohol. When he meets Charlie and attorney Hugh Lang, they explain that the NTSB performed a toxicology screen while he was unconscious, showing that Whip was intoxicated. The results could send him to prison on alcohol, drug, and manslaughter charges. Hugh promises to get the toxicology report voided on technical grounds, but Whip leaves in a fury and seeks out Nicole. He finds her bailing on her lease, bribes her landlord not to pursue her, and brings her to the farm.

Nicole and Whip soon become intimate, but Whip begins drinking again while Nicole is trying to stay clean and sober. She brings him to a recovery meeting but he leaves her there, and as his alcoholism progresses she decides to move out. When he comes back to the farm and finds the media outside his gate, he drives drunk to the home of his ex-wife and son, who force him to leave. Whip goes to Charlie and begs to stay with his family, vowing not to drink again before the NTSB hearing.

The night before the hearing, Whip is moved into a guarded hotel room to ensure he does not get drunk. His minibar has only nonalcoholic beverages, but when he finds the door to the adjacent room unlocked, Whip discovers it has a full minibar. Charlie and Hugh find him the next morning, passed out, still intoxicated. They call Harling, who revives him with cocaine for the hearing.

At the hearing, Ellen Block, the lead NTSB investigator, explains that a damaged elevator assembly jackscrew was the primary cause of the crash. She commends Whip on his valor and skill, explaining that no other pilots were able to land the plane in simulations following the crash. Then she reveals that two empty vodka bottles were found in the trash of the plane, but none was served to the passengers. Only one of the crew's toxicology reports was positive for alcohol, although one was excluded. Since Katerina's report was positive for alcohol, Block asks Whip if he believes that she drank it. Rather than lie and permanently taint her good name, Whip admits that he drank it, that he flew intoxicated, and that he is intoxicated at that moment.

Thirteen months later, an imprisoned Whip tells a support group of fellow inmates that he is glad to be sober and does not regret doing the right thing, because he finally feels "free." He tells the support group he lost his piloting license, but not his faith in telling the truth. He has pictures of Nicole and other family and friends on the wall of his cell, along with greeting cards congratulating him on being sober for a year. He is working to rebuild his relationship with his son, who visits his father to talk with him about a college application essay on "the most fascinating person I've never met." His son begins by asking, "Who are you?" Whip replies "That's a good question."

Robert Zemeckis entered negotiations to direct in April 2011,[4] and by early June had accepted, with Denzel Washington about to finalize his own deal.[5] It marked the first time Zemeckis and Washington worked together on a motion picture.

By mid-September 2011, Kelly Reilly was in negotiations to play the female lead,[6] with Don Cheadle,[7] Bruce Greenwood,[7] and John Goodman[8] joining later in the month, and Melissa Leo and James Badge Dale in final negotiations.[9] Screenwriter John Gatins said in early October 2011 that production would begin mid-month.[10] Flight was largely filmed on location near Atlanta, Georgia, over 45 days in November 2011.[11] The film's relatively small budget of $31 million, which Zemeckis later calculated was his smallest budget in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1980, was due to tax rebates from Georgia and from Zemeckis and Washington having waived their customary fees.[11]

Gatins explained in a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times that the dramatic fictional crash depicted in Flight was "loosely inspired" by the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261,[11] which was caused by a broken jackscrew and in which the pilots briefly attempted to recover from catastrophic loss of control by flying the aircraft upside down. That crash had no survivors. The airplane in "Flight", a two-engine T-tail jet airliner, appears to be from the same model family as Alaska Airlines 261, a variant of the MD-80.

The landing resembles that of Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751, also an MD-80 family aircraft. Like in the film, SK 751 suffered a flameout, glided and made a forced landing in a field, where it broke up but remained largely intact. Despite a few serious injuries, all survived. Also like in the film, the flight attendants of SK 751 ordered the passengers to adopt the brace position, which is credited with saving lives

Flight has received mostly positive reviews. The film has an approval rating of 78% based on a sample of 215 critics on Rotten Tomatoes.[12] The site’s consensus states "Robert Zemeckis makes a triumphant return to live-action cinema with Flight, a thoughtful and provocative character study propelled by a compelling performance from Denzel Washington." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 76% based on reviews from 36 critics.[13]

Denzel Washington's performance received praise from various critics. The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy wrote that the film "provides Denzel Washington with one of his meatiest, most complex roles, and he flies with it."[1] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars (out of four) writing, "Flight segues into a brave and tortured performance by Denzel Washington—one of his very best. Not often does a movie character make such a harrowing personal journey that keeps us in deep sympathy all of the way." He also noted the plane's upside-down flight scene was "one of the most terrifying flight scenes I've ever witnessed".[14] Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Denzel Washington didn't get an Oscar nod for nothing: His performance as an alcoholic airline pilot ensnared by his own heroics is crash-and-burn epic."[15]

The film received some criticism from airline pilots who questioned the film's realism, particularly the premise of a pilot being able to continue flying with a significant substance-abuse problem.[16] The Air Line Pilots' Association in an official press release dismissed the film as an inaccurate portrayal of an air crew and stated that "we all enjoy being entertained, but a thrilling tale should not be mistaken for the true story of extraordinary safety and professionalism among airline pilots."[17] An airline pilot also commented that “a real-life Whitaker wouldn’t survive two minutes at an airline, and all commercial pilots—including, if not especially, those who’ve dealt with drug or alcohol addiction—should feel slandered by his ugly caricature.”[18] The pilot also criticised the portrayal of the relationship between copilot and captain, the decision of Whitaker to increase speed dangerously in a storm and the ultimate dive and crash landing of Whitaker's aircraft.[18]