DIE SZENERIE: Bevor Zucker, Zucker und Abrahams ihre unglaubliche Reise in ihrem verrückten Flugzeug starten lassen, geben sie sich genüsslich dem Wortwitz ihrer Pilotencrew hin. Während Kapitän Clarence Oveur, Co-Pilot Roger Murdock und Flug-Ingenieur Victor Basta mit der Bodenkontrolle die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen durchgehen, sorgen ihre Namen für allerlei Missverständnis im Cockpit des Fluges 209.INT. COCKPIT
- NIGHT
GROUND CONTROLLER: (voice-over) Flight two-zero-niner, you are cleared for takeoff.
OVEUR: Roger.
MURDOCK: (turning to Oveur) Huh?
Oveur throws console lever into second gear.
GROUND CONTROLLER: (voice-over) L.A. departure frequency two-point-niner.
OVEUR: Roger.
MURDOCK: (turning to Oveur) Huh?
BASTA: (to tower) Request vector...over.
OVEUR: (turning to Basta) What?
GROUND CONTROLLER: (voice-over) Flight two-zero-niner, cleared for vector three...two four.
MURDOCK: We have clearance, Clarence.
OVEUR: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Oveur throws console lever into third.
EXT. RUNWAY
- NIGHT
Flight 209 takes off, flying erratically.
BASTA: (voice-over) Tower radioed clearance, over.
OVEUR: (voice-over) That's Clarence Oveur...over.
BASTA: (voice-over) Roger.
MURDOCK: (voice-over) Huh?
TOWER: (voice-over) Roger, over.
OVEUR: (voice-over) What?!
MURDOCK: (voice-over) Huh?
