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In case of actual pilots encountering whatever enemy while in the plane have a tendency to try asking "If you kill me, who's going to fly the plane?" If the villain can in fact fly a plane, that pilot is dead meat.

 

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== Comic Books ==

* In one of the ''[[Gears of War]]'' comics, Delta's Raven pilot gets blown up in his cockpit, prompting Jace Stratton to take the controls and sort-of land the chopper.

 

== Fan Works ==

* Eliza Ingrid's driver in ''[[Halo: A Fistful of Arrows]]''

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Speed]]'': A train conductor is casually bumped off by the villian.

* For an example of a plot-critical character, {{spoiler|[[Serenity]] has Wash gored by the Reavers just as the ship crash-lands otherwise-safely}}.

 

== Literature ==

* Lampshaded in ''Dream Park'', in which the pilot's "death" in the opening act of the South Seas Treasure Game is dismissed as a "freebie"—i.e. something written into the Game's plotline from the outset, rather than a casualty counted against the adventurers—by the leader of the Gamers.

 

* ''[[Lost]]'': In the pilot episode, the co-pilot dies on impact and the pilot is killed off soon after being found. Inverted in later seasons, with pilot Frank Lapidus being one of few characters to survive until the end, precisely because he was required by the plot.

* ''[[No Ordinary Family]]'': The Powells get their powers after a plane crash in the jungle of Brazil. The pilot of their plane is never seen, implying this is what happened to them.

* On ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', Mrs. Frederic's driver(/bodyguard?) is the person killed when Artie survives an explosion by using the phoenix.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In Early [[BattleTech]] there was a tag line "Mechwarrior's are cheap the Mechs they pilot are not" during the game timelines were getting new battlemechs were pretty much only in the ability of well off mercenary company's and Main Inner Sphere House armys especially for the house army's which tend to go thru mechwarrior's like copy paper and frequently the only time someone got a mech is that the previous user/owner died.

 

== Video Games ==

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