Air Force One was hijacked and the President (Carpenter mainstay Donald Pleasence) managed to escape in a pod that crash - landed in New York City, where he was promptly abducted by ne'er - do - wells called the Crazies — their name and «
tude owing a debt to George Romero's hostile mutants of the same appellation, though Carpenter, a rebel spirit but not the Sid Vicious kind, seems to attribute their aggression to the spread of punk rather than to a viral contagion.
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air air tude tempe - density ---- atmospheric ppmv — km rature g / m3 CO2 water vapour 0 16 1,290 400 14,000 0.5 12 1,235 399 11,000 ** 84 % already caught and shimmering around ** 1 9 1,180 398 8,500 1.5 5 1,130 398 6,400 2 2 1,075 397 4,900 3 -6 965 395 2,900 4 -13 860 394 1,700 5 -20 750 392 1,000 6 -27 680 390 600 ** zone above approx.