...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Death Flight
- 7 statements
- 0 feature instances
- 19 referencing feature instances
| Death Flight | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Death Flight | label |
Death Flight | |
| Death Flight | page |
DeathFlight | |
| Death Flight | comment |
A method of murder commonly associated with extrajudicial killings perpetrated by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, a death flight involves someone being dropped from an airborne vehicle high in the air, often into remote wilderness areas or large bodies of water. The benefits of this method of killing are obvious: it combines murder and body disposal in one fell swoop. The bodies are often not discovered before the elements, wildlife and decomposition can make work of them, and even if they are, it's not always easy to determine who killed them — or if they were even murdered in the first place. The identity of the victim and even the time of death can also be obfuscated given the right circumstances. Not only that, but the purpose of these flights is generally not immediately obvious to those not in the know (unless they happen to witness people falling out, of course). There are still risks and drawbacks, however, such as (usually) having to log a flight plan, the possibility of interception en route, or even sufficiently resourceful prisoners managing to turn the tables on their captors and send them plummeting to their deaths. Many fictional uses of this trope take inspiration from the infamous use of this method of murder by the far-right military dictatorships that ruled the Southern Cone countries of South America during The '70s and The '80s to "disappear" those who spoke out against their policies or were otherwise politically inconvenient. One variant is the use of deception rather than force, tricking someone into boarding an aircraft and then throwing them off at the right opportunity. In more fantastic settings, characters able to fly under their own power may do this without a vehicle. Another popular variation is threatening to do this as a form of High-Altitude Interrogation. Yet another involves jumping (often super-jumping) or teleportation rather than flight. A subtrope of Disney Villain Death. Compare Destination Defenestration and Thrown Out the Airlock. When someone is murdered on a plane, see Death in the Clouds. May overlap with Unhand Them, Villain!. See also Chute Sabotage. Contrast Death from Above. Not to be confused with Thrown from the Zeppelin, though there can certainly be overlap. Examples: |
|
| Death Flight | fetched |
2023-11-30T23:21:15Z | |
| Death Flight | parsed |
2023-11-30T23:21:15Z | |
| Death Flight | isPartOf |
DBTropes |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.