Regis Flight 753

Regis Flight 753 is a fictional aircraft featured in the FX Network television series The Strain. It played a key role in the development of the story and was the central plot device of the pilot episode, "Night Zero".

Regis Flight 753 was an international passenger plane that traveled from Berlin, Germany to New York City, New York in October, 2014. It had a full crew and passenger complement of 210 people and was scheduled for a night time landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The captain of Flight 753 was Doyle Redfern. There were two flight attendants, Rose and Peter.

The plane was carrying an over-sized intricately carved coffin in its cargo bay, which contained the body of a master vampire. The cargo manifest was manipulated at the origin point so nobody knew what they were carrying. As Flight 753 began its descent to JFK, the vampire broke free and began infecting the crew and passengers, exsanguinating them in the process. The plane touched down blindly on a runway apron with no coordination from air traffic control.

An air traffic controller and port authority supervisor named Peter Bishop ran out into the apron to find the plane safe, but completely silent with no lights on. All of the windows on the plane were closed except for one. Port Authority contacted the Centers for Disease Control who sent in Ephraim Goodweather and Nora Martinez to investigate. Boarding the plane, they found 206 of the 210 passengers and crew were dead. There were four survivors, but they were all infected. They were Captain Doyle Redfern, rock star Gabriel Bolivar, attorney Joan Luss, and a little girl named Emma Arnot.