When a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers crashes in Mongolia's Gobi Desert during a sandstorm, the survivors attempt to build a new plane from the parts they find in the wreckage to escape. The plane was piloted by Captain Frank Towns, an employee of oil company Geodel, whose job it is to go to remote oil rigs and shut them down when their productivity has decreased. Having accomplished his job with one such rig, his plane crashes with all of the employees aboard on the way back to Beijing. 
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el vuelo del fenix 

TÍTULO: El vuelo del Fénix 
TÍTULO ORIGINAL: Flight of the Phoenix 
FECHA DE ESTRENO EN EE.UU: 17 - 12 - 2004 
FECHA DE ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA: 11 - 02 - 2005 
PRODUCTORA: 20th Century Fox 
DIRECTOR: John Moore 
REPARTO: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Jared Padalecki, Jacob Vargas, Hugh Laurie 
GÉNERO: Aventuras 
SINOPSIS: Un grupo de supervivientes de un accidente de aviación -gente descastada de la sociedad a la que nadie echará de menos- se ven obligados a sobrevivir en el desierto de Mongolia sin opción de rescate. Tratarán entonces de construir un nuevo avión con los restos del accidentado. Remake de un film de mismo título original dirigido por Robert Aldrich en 1965.