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Tragically, the crash that was to befall the improvised namesake of 1965’s The Flight of the Phoenix was not. (20th Century Fox/Getty Images)
Tragically, the crash that was to befall the improvised namesake of 1965’s The Flight of the Phoenix was not. (20th Century Fox/Getty Images)