In Popular Culture
Tu-154's interior and exterior as the most common airliner appeared in many Soviet and Russian films.
Air Crew is the 1979 action film revolving around the exploits of a Soviet Tu-154 crew on an international flight, the first Soviet film in the disaster genre.
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