"The 747 Sequence" is the name given by Disney to a deleted scene in Lilo & Stitch.
Lilo & Stitch originally had a climax in which Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and Nani hijack a Tsunami Air Boeing 747 at Lihue Airport and fly it through Honolulu to follow Chugag's (in the early version)/Gantu's (in the later version) ship. In the original pre-9/11 ending, the chase began in the inner city of Honolulu before both ships headed toward the mountains and volcanoes. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks happened, the ending was rewritten and substituted with the group using Jumba's ship to follow Gantu's ship, with the 747's CGI model modified to become the spaceship. The 747's animation were mostly maintained when the scenes were recomposited with the spaceship, while backgrounds and character animations were changed, most notably with the Ice Cream Man's moment when the plane's/ship's wingtip knocks off his ice cream changed from him standing in a crosswalk to him relaxing on a secluded inland beach.
The original animated scenes of the plane's hijacking and flight through Honolulu were later included in the Lilo & Stitch: Big Wave Edition 2-disc DVD set and the Disney+ extras of the film.
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