Sentences with phrase «plane over a desert»

But a funny thing happens on the way to Iraq, for this ill - equipped trio of misfits unit is accidentally ejected from the plane over a desert in Mexico, where it takes them forever to realize that they haven't landed in a battle zone.

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He was 15 years old and traveling with his father when tribal militants shot down their plane over the Somalian desert, according to his story shared on the Marine Corps blog:

We had made it up from Johannesburg to Maun by two - engine chartered plane the afternoon before, flying the 500 miles directly over the burning Kalahari Desert, the heat rising up to shake the small plane.

Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.

I had nurtured such romantic visions of this journey, let them take shape as the plane passed over Egypt, with its shadowless desert and the Nile stretched out below.