Lockheed L-1011 TriStar - Popular Culture

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  • The airliner used on the ABC television series Lost is a dismantled L-1011 formerly belonging to Eastern Airlines and later Delta Air Lines.
  • The airliner in the Stephen King short story, and TV Miniseries The Langoliers is a Lockheed L-1011
  • The airliner featured in the 1992 action film, Passenger 57, was an L-1011 TriStar.
  • The band El Ten Eleven, a Los Angeles, California post-rock duo, derives its name from the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.

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