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'''Scotty:''' What're ye all standin' aroun' for? Don't ye know a jailbreak when ye see one? }}
* In ''[[Space Camp]]'', one of the campers in the accidentally-launched shuttle realizes that she can use a telemetry switch to send Morse code in place of the nonfunctional radio. The control room operators need the help of the ever-annoying robot Jinx to notice that one of their console lights is rapidly blinking in an irregular pattern...
** Trope averted in that the only reason ''any'' of the campers know Morse is because one of them happened to read a book on it once, and has a photographic memory. Visibly no one else on board, including the trained astronaut, knows how to tap out anything more complicated than 'SOS'.
* In ''[[Executive Decision]]'', the trope is played with when Kurt Russel's character uses the boarded plane's tracking lights for Morse code, knowing the only reason this can work is that the US fighter planes following the plane are Navy, the only US armed service that still trained its pilots in Morse code.
* In ''[[Under Siege]]'', Seagal's character is able to rescue a group of survivors who just happened to be broadcasting Morse code as he was nearby. Somewhat justified in that he was previously a Navy SEAL.
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