* Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords

* Bret McKenzie, Flight of the Conchords

* In the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords episode " The New Cup ", the band's manager, Murray, uses the band's emergency funds for an investment with a Nigerian, Mr. Nigel Soladu, who promises to offer " 1000 % profit ".

*" Frodo ", a song by New Zealand folk-duo Flight of the Conchords

* The Flight of the Conchords TV show often films at Flushing Meadows Park, with the Unisphere and observatory towers as a backdrop.

* In the series Flight of the Conchords, Bret serenades his girlfriend sitting in front of the Unisphere with the song " If You're Into It ".

Finn had a cameo appearance acting role on the BBC Radio Show Flight of the Conchords.

They are often credited with taking the first steps toward popularizing grunge music, and have continued to achieve critical and commercial success in the new millennium, with popular bands such as Fleet Foxes, Dinosaur Jr., Foals, Beach House, The Postal Service, Flight of the Conchords, No Age, Wolf Parade and The Shins on their roster.

Sub Pop has two platinum records, Nirvana's Bleach ; and Flight of the Conchords's Flight of the Conchords, as well as two gold records, The Postal Service's Give Up and The Shins ' Wincing the Night Away.

* " Boom " ( Flight of the Conchords song )

The song was parodied by The Flight of the Conchords as " Albi the Racist Dragon ".

** Flight of the Conchords for The Distant Future

* The New Cup ( 2009 ) — this episode of Flight of the Conchords includes a Rube-Goldberg accident that destroys a mug.

In July 2008, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the " I'm Fucking Matt Damon " had received a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics, competing against two songs from Flight of the Conchords, one from MADtv, and another from Phineas and Ferb.

*" Bowie " ( Flight of the Conchords ), the sixth episode of the television series Flight of the Conchords

* Jemaine Clement, one half of the comedy band / TV series " Flight of the Conchords "

* Murray Hewitt, band manager and New Zealand Deputy Cultural Attaché in the Flight of the Conchords TV series

Arj Barker appeared in the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords, playing Bret and Jemaine's indifferent friend Dave .< ref >

*: Flight of the Conchords, " Think About It "

BBC Four is notable for first showing Larry David's Seinfeld follow-up, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Armando Iannucci's cutting political satire, The Thick of It, The Chaser's War on Everything, Flight of the Conchords, Mad Men and Danish thriller, The Killing.

* Flight of the Conchords

1979 Another song, Gonna Love You More, recorded by George Benson in his album In Flight, gets a Grammy nomination, and gives Morris another Gold Record, in America.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

* The Vulcan Gets New Striking Power an AVRO advertisement for the Vulcan from Flight in February 1959, showing the ( still unnamed ) Blue Steel.

*" 30-Passenger Airliner Disappears In Flight From San Juan To Miami ", The New York Times, December 29, 1948.

* 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.

* 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

* 1965 – After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.

He died at age 53 when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks.

Bailey died at age 53 when the plane in which he was travelling, United Airlines Flight 175, crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks.

* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York.

* 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.

* 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

Mihdhar bought a fake ID on July 10 from All Services Plus in Passaic County, New Jersey, which was in the business of selling counterfeit documents, including another ID to Flight 11 hijacker Abdulaziz al-Omari.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by Mohamed Atta, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ; maps of Washington, D. C. and New York City ; a cashier's check made out to a Phoenix, Arizona flight school ; four drawings of a Boeing 757 cockpit ; a box cutter ; and a page with notes and phone numbers, which contained evidence that led investigators to San Diego.

* Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics, McCormick, Barnes W., ( 1979 ), Chapter 3, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York ISBN 0-471-03032-5.

On September 11, 2001, Homer was flying with Captain Jason M. Dahl on United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco.

* 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.

** Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Select Essays 1944-1968 New World Library, 3rd ed.

*" UNITED FLIGHT 93: On Doomed Flight, Passengers Vowed to Perish Fighting " The New York Times.

* 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

Madeline Amy Sweeney ( December 14, 1966 – September 11, 2001 ), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

* 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

* 2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

* 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.