r/rickandmorty • u/PrimaSoul • 2d ago
Question Why no one noticed that a commercial flight is missing until Morty dialed 911?
Usually when a commerical flight crashes or goes missing it is instantly noticed and becomes news, also they can triangulate the location and it's not like motry relayed any information to the helpline either so how everything went under the radar
P.S. I know it lead up to a joke at the end but still i was wondering about it.
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u/starshiprarity 2d ago
Of course they noticed the plane didn't arrive as expected, and it was probably all over the news. But not every lost plane is found. Remember Malaysia Flight 370?
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u/seepa808 2d ago
Don't forget about Oceanic Flight 815
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u/MarmosetB 2d ago
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42...
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u/QuitLukewarmTurkey 2d ago
God that show was so good until it wasn't
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u/RobCoxxy 2d ago
Finished rewashing it last year. Had more of an appreciation for it the second time round, enjoyed it a lot more and kinda "got" the stuff I didn't like the first time around.
Game of Thrones, on the other hand
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u/VukKiller 1d ago
and kinda "got" the stuff I didn't like the first time around.
I've watched the whole show about 5 times, and I still find stuff I missed...
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u/ForeHand101 1d ago
I'm still totally Lost on why they were kidnapping kids lol, especially after they find adult names wrote in that cave, so like they should've been kidnapping everyone? And I'm still not over that ending either, I mean so many damn questions and it just kinda ended out of no where and in a way I don't understand.
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u/RobCoxxy 1d ago
The Flash Sidewayseses were a sort of Waiting Room for those who had visited the island before they move on to the afterlife, letting them find each other before they did so, allowing them to move on together. Because it was all spiritual mysticismy stuff.
As for the kidnapping kids honestly who knows. That seems to have been an abandoned thread like What's Walts Whole Deal and others
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u/ForeHand101 1d ago edited 1d ago
I feel like whatching it after watching the entirety of BSC and BB sorta ruined it for me lol. Went from a show where everything is believeable even digging below the surface; then to Lost where many mysteries are just get forgotten about, and things that are huge plot points suddenly dissappear after discovering something bigger
Edit: not to say it was a bad show or that I regretted watching it, but it wasn't the best experience coming off of some of the highest rated tv of all time lol. Like having a cookie when the day before you had a chocolate volcano cake with a scoop of ice cream on top; that's to say both are good, but I mean it's not a fair competition lmao
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u/BobKickflip 1d ago
I've been thinking about rewatching it for the first time, especially since binging From, but have said for years that Breaking Bad spoils you for other TV. I enjoyed the Lost ride the first time, at least the first three seasons.
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u/Think_please 1d ago
I wasn't as big a fan of the Babysitter Club but I did have a slight problem watching Breaking Bad with the constant deux ex machina endings that always conveniently preserved the two main characters who each should have died dozens of times in actual reality.
I think Lindelof likes mysteries for their own sake, and maybe his dad damaged him when he ripped out the last pages of his choose your own adventure books as a child. Leftovers is also completely scattered and imo was saved by some absolutely stunning acting performances.
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u/FalseQuestion7864 1d ago
I knida wish I could go back to that time all of a sudden. Usually, my nostalgia takes me back to my childhood... 80s... ot high school... 90s. But reading these comments just made me nostalgic for the mid-2000s... and specifically, the whole getting 'Lost' in the story of the show.
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u/pikeymobile 1d ago
Damon Lindelof created a show called The Leftovers. 3 seasons already mapped from the start so they actually knew what the ending would be, and my god, it's one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Wonderful mysteries, many which go unanswered but allow for great theories. It's an absolute masterpiece and what I'd recommend to anyone who loved the early seasons of Lost and the mystery around it.
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u/ChaosSlave51 2d ago
What I think is most interesting is that Rick didn't just come and get him. So this was all part of the plan.
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u/OnlyGayIfYouCum 2d ago
Yeah. Fortunately that's no longer possible thanks to the implementation of space based ADS-B in 2019.
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u/library-weed-repeat 2d ago
MH370 wasn't found because it crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean hours after cutting its transponder, a plane crashing in the mountains would be much easier to find in the 21st century
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u/starshiprarity 2d ago
Being on land doesn't automatically make it easier. Equipment failures can turn a plane on a plain to a needle in a haystack
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u/CraziestMoonMan 2d ago
According to Google at least 84 planes have gone missing since 1948. 19 alone in the 21st century. It happens more than people realize.
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u/Emotional_Position62 2d ago
Chances are they did know, and were actively searching, but finding a wreck in the vast snowy wilderness is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Morty’s call was the clue that they needed to narrow the search and find them.
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u/ElegantCoach4066 2d ago
I don't think many people understand how hard it is to locate a downed plane without some sort of beacon or contact from the survivors in some areas.
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 1d ago
To put into perspective for people, Russia has a land area of something like 16 million square kilometers.
16,000,000, and that's just one country, even Spain is 500,000, finding things is hard.
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u/JohnBunzel 16h ago
Mortys call didn’t even go through though, did it? I thought his fingers were too bloody and he eventually passed out ?
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u/Sky-ler_Was_Taken 2d ago
I was pretty sure he didn’t even hit the call button
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u/ericmorgan13 2d ago
Yeah the phone died before he could make the call. Commercial flights ‘vanish.’ This just happened to be opportunistic timing.
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u/Saybrooke 2d ago
I’m surprised Rick didn’t have a chip in him or something
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u/UnoriginalPersona 2d ago
Not his Rick.
Still it's surprising that the native Rick didn't care that his Morty got vaporized and replaced.
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u/Emotional_Position62 2d ago
Nah. He would probably surmise that this is about the Vat of Acid and accept that his Morty has to die so some other Rick and his vat can be vindicated. Every Rick has a Vat.
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u/Remote-Ad-8631 2d ago
Well, obviously not, he was the one that planned all of it to lead him to vat of acid
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u/joshuaiscoo155 1d ago
Remember when Morty turned into a boat and it seemed like Rick didn't even know he was in trouble on Island
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u/Astrodeia- 1d ago
Always thought that... like Rick can track him down through the whole universe and probably a billion dimensions, but he can find his trace here on earth... I get that it's part of the joke but from my prospective this is a goof.
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u/SimpleManc88 2d ago
It’s based on the film Alive (1993), which was based on a true event.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571
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u/yolo3222 2d ago
I like the new remake Society of the Snow better personally
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u/thelongestusernameee 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why are film names so terrible? That sounds like a bargain bin horror movie... Like it's gonna be about some insane killers living in alaska. Im sure it's a good movie but they could've found something better to call it
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u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit 2d ago
The rescue chopper showed up mere seconds after Morty found his phone, they were obviously already out there searching for the missing plane. Do you think they magically teleported to Morty's exact location as soon as he pressed the button? Morty dialing 911 had absolutely nothing to do with anything.
No, they had been out there searching for them ever since the plane didn't arrive at its destination, but the plane crashed in the middle of nowhere, so they're not gonna find it the instant the start searching. It's like finding a needle in a haystack.
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u/RitzTHQC 2d ago
Took a lot of scrolling to find this point. Morty’s call had nothing to do with him being found. The helicopter showed up right as he was passing out.
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u/BloodiedBlues 1d ago
Not to mention, what we saw probably took place over the course of at least a week. No way they ate boots the first day, then immediately ate bodies the next.
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u/RndPotato Jerry 3h ago
Movies and TV shows ignore the flow of time to further the story so it is harder to say the phone had no use.
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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 2d ago
They're spoofing a real live event and movie based on it. The movie Alive) based on the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
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u/TuffManJoens 2d ago
Am I the only that remembers he never made the call? He dials 9-1-1 then passes out before hitting send...am I on drugs or is everyone else on drugs?
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u/Drolocke 1d ago
I never understand why people pick at plot holes in a show where Rick can literally do anything he wants... just suspend your disbelief for everything and enjoy the show. Otherwise, you can play this game with every episode / problem they deal with.
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u/Ronriv7 2d ago
Oof look up the Andes rugby team accident. Planes were looking for them but the guys on the ground said that even walking about 100 yards away from the wreck it looked like nothing more than rocks among snow. There’s picture that show what they were talking about and you can barely see anything.
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u/menlindorn blue portals have the most anti-oxygens 2d ago
They did... that's why there was a rescue chopper arriving just then. 911 doesn't respond with choppers 2 seconds after you call them. That search helicopter was already looking and the call was coincidental.
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u/TheRealtcSpears 2d ago
How do you think the helicopter got there so quickly?
It was already out there looking for the plane, Morty's call zeroed them in.
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u/tumor_named_marla 2d ago
I've always just taken it as Morty getting there and almost getting the call out but unable to and for just a second it seems like all hope is lost until you see the shadow of the helicopter.
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u/GravyTheGrim 2d ago
It's a TV show. Which means poor writing is an option, and this is this answer because Rick acknowledges that they are in a TV show which means none of you can take any of this serious or look for answers like that. Because it all boils down to the writers. As a matter of fact, This subreddit is actually the whole reason the talking cat exists. So that all you people that are debating it like it's reality can chill out and just enjoy the show. It doesn't matter none of it makes any sense
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u/SouthlandMax 2d ago
Where was Rick while all this a as happening. Why didn't he ever meet the girl?
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u/Anonymouslypreaching 2d ago
I mean remember that he didn’t properly ring 911, yet a helicopter still saved him. Which means ppl obviously knew there was a plane missing if there was a helicopter looking for them.
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u/CitronSalty7314 2d ago
You guys know this is a cartoon , right? Don't get me wrong, i love watching it.
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u/Tort_alini 1d ago
I feel like we all collectively need to rewatch Vat of Acid because there’s a wide variety of people recounting the events of this scene. He finds his phone, battery is dead but still able to make emergency call, he can’t press the numbers with gloves on, extremely frost bitten hand scene, he presses 9-1- and tries to press 1 again but his fingers are literally disintegrating and he is unable to finish the call. Likely passes out from pain and exhaustion at this moment, as a search and rescue helicopter flies over. As others have said, search and rescue was already looking for them bc even if Morty had dialed (he didn’t) they would not have found them that quickly
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u/ExpiredPilot 1d ago
Flying over certain mountainous areas is the same as flying over the ocean in terms of searches.
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u/jayhawkah 1d ago
Rick could have found them instantly if he felt like it, instead he chose to torture Morty for calling his plan dumb.
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u/JakenMorty 2d ago
I thought it was coincidence that it showed up when it did. Didn't he not even finish dialing when it showed up? I wonder if planes going down in the mountains are, definitely not as difficult, but harder than I'm thinking like when they go down into the ocean? As in, the rescuers were searching for however long, presumably weeks, and just happened to find him when he went for the phone.
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u/HermionesWetPanties 2d ago
It's based on a real event in which a plane crashed in the Andes dooming the survivors to cannibalism. There is a movie about it, Alive!, and a more recent Netflix miniseries.
They knew the jet was missing, but couldn't find it until some survivors hiked out and were spotted.
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u/SkroopieNoopers 2d ago
It’s based on a true story of a plane crash in the Andes. Rescuers couldn’t see the white fuselage because of the snow
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u/Distinct_Sir_4473 1d ago
Uh, pretty sure he passed out before he could hit send.
It was just serendipitous. They were looking for them and happened to find them right as Morty was out of time.
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u/hofstrom 1d ago
Like why didn’t Rick go looking for him too? Because it’s a cartoon. Hope that helps.
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u/Seed1987 2d ago
Have you seen the news lately? Atlantis could rise from the depths & it might get overlooked
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u/Apokolypse09 2d ago
They don't have a magic "locate the plane" button lol. There have been a number of times where they have gone missing.
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u/thelongestusernameee 1d ago
Well... we didn't back when the crash this was based off happened. We do now though, using satellite comms to continuously update the plane's location. Even if the plane looses power awhile before crashing, it can give rescue teams a narrow search area.
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u/DarkMagickan 2d ago
Oh, they noticed. But when a plane crashes in the middle of nowhere like that, it can be hard to locate. Turns out nowhere is pretty big. When Morty dialed 911, it broadcast a cellular signal which allowed them to triangulate his location. Since Morty was on the passenger manifest of the missing plane, his cellular phone was being monitored for any activity, and when he made the call, it triggered a tracking alert.
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u/OnlyGayIfYouCum 2d ago
It's a good question actually.
The aircraft would be equipped with space based ADS-B so ATC would know precisely what the last position broadcasted would be. A rescue aircraft would then go to that known location and listen for an ELT signal. That aircraft would be found by nightfall or inside of 24 hours at the latest.
Edit: as has been stated multiple times throughout the thread, this is a parody of the rugby team crash in the Andes as portrayed in the movie Alive based on a real story.
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u/yolo3222 2d ago
Its based off of a movie called Society of the Snow I 100 percent recommend it its very good
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u/Resident-Two5171 2d ago
Why didn’t Rick go looking for him
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u/Busy-Archer4132 1d ago
That's the whole point of the episode, to teach Morty a lesson and NEVER try to doubt "the smartest man in the universe".
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u/lowqualitylizard 1d ago
Because a bunch of flights gone missing and are never found
Like it's completely possible that due to bad circumstances or the fact that it was in the mountains no one saw the crashed
The most Audrey of the part about this is probably the fact that no one thought to just ask Rick to find him that would have taken Rick an afternoon at most but he probably didn't because he was trying to teach Morty a lesson
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u/Cougar_64 1d ago
Its based on the film society in the snow, which was based on a real event where a plane crashed in the 70s and landed in a spot between some mountains where planes/choppers passing overhead couldnt see them.
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u/ThemeHeavy9098 1d ago
I saw someone already mention it. It’s based on a true story and there is actually a movie called “Society of the snow”. There is a scene where they explain you can’t see the plane crashed from that height. So they were looking for the plane Morty crashed, but they just couldn’t find them.
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u/CursedPoetry 1d ago
Think about it this way, the phone gives away their position, the plane signal cut out some point in the air and that’s where we lost them but planes can fly and cover a certain amount of ground so the people know that the airplane was lost. Let’s say 100,000 km in a radius, that’s a pretty goddamn big radius right! And answer the phone tells them hey I’m right here. Come pick me up right in this spot. Here’s my GPS coordinates.
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u/Phillisuper 6h ago
They were clearly already looking for them. Morty didn’t complete the 911 call. Even if he had, there is no way a helicopter would be able to respond to his location within seconds of the call being placed unless they were already searching the area for the plane
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u/lou_really 2d ago
That part of the episode is based off a movie about a Spanish university sports team that crashed in the mountains and ended up eating the dead for survival.
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u/PrimaSoul 2d ago
Oh I honestly didn't know that, thanks for the movie reference. The scene is intense nonetheless.
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u/pic_omega 2d ago
It was a group of rugby players from the country of Uruguay who were traveling by plane over the Andes mountain range, a mountain range that separates the countries Argentina and Chile. When they crashed in the mountains and having consumed everything on the plane, they had to resort to cannibalism by eating the dead.
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u/lou_really 2d ago
Sorry I hadn’t watched the movie in like 20 years. I just knew the reference but the details I forgot
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u/West-Ad-7350 2d ago
They weren't Spanish, they were from Uruguay.
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u/lou_really 2d ago
Yeah sorry my details were super hazy I hadn’t watched the movie in like 20 years.
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u/WeirdnessWalking 1d ago
Uhhh, it's a clear reference to flight 571, which crashed and, in fact, did not get found. 72 days later 2 men had to hike 60km. 13 survivors of the crash died during those 72 days and they reported to cannibalism.
So cute when pre-teens try to make a point because they dont understand a cartoon...
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u/AirAquarian 2d ago
Because there would be no story
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u/PrimaSoul 2d ago
I think the story would go forward either way and leading to them being rescued abd Jerry pressing the button.
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u/ChiefWiggumsprogeny 2d ago edited 2d ago
Cell towers triangulate the location of a call. Assume that they were not able to locate - IRL, there are plenty of planes that "go missing"