Executive Decision: Austin Travis (Steven Seagal)

Comments for death : Executive Decision: Austin Travis (Steven Seagal).

Nice one, I'd totally forgot this happened - and like you said, the surprise factor makes it a memorable (and justly high rated) death.

Damn. I was planning to submit this!

Two points...
- He dies 41 mins into the picture, according to my PAL DVD. (I love this death religiously)
- Ironic needs to be added. Earlier, Travis asks Grant, "who the hell else wants to do it? You?" Which is just what happens.

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Damn. I was planning to submit this!

Sorry, it was on TV last night and I got sucked into watching it, to see if I was right about Seagal dying. Once he died I started typing up the death whilst watching the rest of the film!
The film isn't actually that bad either. It picked up on a very important pre 9/11 idea, that hijackers may not actually want to land a plane.
Also, the cast was pretty good. I spotted Liz's mother from Roswell High, the old git of a doctor from Scrubs and of course Hercule Poirot playing the main baddie .
I cannot believe Halle Berry held out for a $1,000,000 payout for her role though - she does virtually nothing!

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- He dies 41 mins into the picture, according to my PAL DVD. (I love this death religiously)

Well I watched the UK version on Sky, which probably has 20 minutes of knife fighting cut . I will update the review though.

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- Ironic needs to be added. Earlier, Travis asks Grant, "who the hell else wants to do it? You?" Which is just what happens.

Nice try, but it's not all that ironic really I'm afraid! I have to keep going into the "Ironic" category and culling it, as reviewers are far too keen to apply it in my opinion!

But here Irony definetly seems to apply.

I have the DVD, so I would take grabs, but my DVD drive refuses to open anymore.

Sky's version is probably the same as the UK release (which I have). It has 7s of knife fighting cut for the '15' rating (did you know Seagal's first 8 films were cut in some way in the UK? (Under Siege 2 particularly)) and scenes where David Suchet is seen praying cut out (Warners did this themselves, rather the BBFC.)

Where's Pressure? His demise was a result of depressurisation.

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Where's Pressure? His demise was a result of depressurisation.

I'm not convinced Pressure applies. I agree the depressurisation assisted him being swept outside, but that by itself shouldn't qualify. As an example, if someone used a suction cup to pull someone into the path of an oncoming bus, Pressure wouldn't apply either.

It is, however, a pivotal part of the scene. May not have directly caused his death, but it played a large role.

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As a point of interest, what would happen to a healthy person if they were suddenly put into freefall at 30,000 feet? Would they fall far enough and fast enough in order to avoid death by asphyxiation (hypoxia)? I suspect they would, but am not sure so I did some research...

I found the following helpful page which is interesting reading: Would-you-be-conscious-if-you-fell-from-a-plane

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The conclusion was that the hypoxia of such a descent would not necessarily totally incapacitate a person. However, in a true free fall the 100 mph + windspeed would freeze the faller very rapidly, to the point where that might cause loss of consciousness.

Just a slight correction needed: Travis simply says "You are!"

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