Final acting role of David Spielberg.
The set built for the plane was cannibalized from several 747 planes at an airplane graveyard.
An alien parasite was the source of the zombie outbreak in an earlier draft of the script.
Kevin J. O'Connor and Erick Avari had previously appeared together in The Mummy (1999).
Dale Midkiff had previously been killed by another zombified wife in Pet Sematary (1989).