Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 American survival drama film and a remake of a 1965 film of the same name, both based on the 1964 novel "The Flight of the Phoenix", by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi. "Flight of the Phoenix" opened in the U.S. on December 17, 2004. The film was a box-office failure, and received generally mixed reviews;
The Killing Box officer tells Mahone to drop his weapon while they apprehend Michael and Lincoln. Fernando Sucre's (Amaury Nolasco) plane is being chased by military jets near the American border into Mexico. Sucre believes that the military can't follow them past the border, but the pilot tells him that all changed after 9/11 and that their only hope of survival is to escape the plane with parachutes. The pair jump out of the plane, and land in the Sonoran Desert. Later, Sucre glances at the dead pilot (with an unopened parachute), killed on impact, before he walks away into the desert. T-Bag