Four months later, an episode of "" featured a plot paralleling Burton's death, “Unfriendly Skies”, where five complete strangers board a plane and kill a man after believing him to be trying to take down the plane; the episode was televised December 8, 2000. A year later, playwright Lucas Rockwood turned the incident into a play, "Fifty Minutes", which was performed a few weeks prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001.