This article is about the original incarnation of the downed plane. For the post-2021 version, see Gipsy Moth.
The downed Lockheed Electra 12A is a wrecked vehicle from the Jungle Cruise.
Description[]
This was a Lockheed Electra 12A which was wrecked in the Congo basin of Africa.
History[]
Background[]
This aircraft was used during the 1930s and crashed along the Nile of North Africa around 1938. It is implied that the plane might have been utilized by the company Aero-Casablanca as part of, "Aero Casablanca's Belgian Congo River tour". These tours to the Congo transported passengers to the region for a minimum of twenty-five years. A survivor of the wreckage might have become a skipper for the Jungle Navigation Company following their stranding in the Congo.
Development history[]
The plane was created using the back-half of an allegedly authentic prop used in the film Casablanca. This film was set-designed by Harper Goff, one of the original imagineers behind the Jungle Cruise. The front-side of the plane was used for the defunct attraction The Great Movie Ride in Disney's Hollywood Studios while the backside was used for the Jungle Cruise. This was changed in 2021 to feature the words "The Amazing Hathaway Browne" on it, a reference to Adventurers Club character Hathaway Browne.
Appearances[]
Great Movie Ride[]
The front-side of the airplane appeared in a Casablanca vignette, nearby Rick Blaine saying goodbye to Ilsa Lund who is about to board the plane in 1942.
Jungle Cruise[]
The plane appears in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise. Skippers sometimes remark having crashed in the plane before becoming skippers. A possible homage to the removed group can be found in the Amazon River Base where a stone tablet mentions a company called, "Casablanca" leading tours around Africa, with the illustration of a plane.
Gallery[]
