October 12, 2012 - 17:56 AMT
"Flight" trailer features Denzel Washington in flaming plane

Forget "Man on Fire" - Denzel Washington is piloting a flaming plane plummeting toward a suburban neighborhood, TheWrap said.

The new trailer for "Flight", which opens Nov. 2, blinks from the dramatic free-fall to Washington awaking in a hospital bed, only to learn his nearly impossible landing has him being heralded as a hero.

News trucks are waiting for him and grateful passengers want to thank him.

"There is all kinds of news people out here - you're a rock star," John Goodman's character tells him in the hospital. "You will never pay for another drink as long as you live."

The words sting like a shot of straight gin.

His character, pilot Captain William Whitaker, is quickly embroiled in a government investigation after rescue workers identify alcohol in his system - he'd had a drink before the botched flight.

The Robert Zemeckis-directed movie will debut at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 14.