Wilson: "Here's how we're going to handle this, House. We're going to leave here and go to the closest bar and drink and tell stories about the time Kutner almost blew up an OR."
The visual effects (close-up shot of a blinking eye, psychedelic colors changing with each blink, the colored landscapes, the spectrum effects and the 'star'-like shapes) prior to the plane-crash are all references to the 'star-gate' scene.