New oral history of "Airplane!" traces the making of the beloved parody of 1970s disaster movies.

NPR's A Martinez talks to David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed Airplane!, about their new book Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with the Zucker brothers created Airplane!, Police Squad! and The Naked Gun films, has died. He was 80.