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This is basically the plot of Die Hard 2 (1990), where bad guys take over the instrument landing system and make a plane crash on landing. https://en.wikipedia.
by kens 7y ago
This is basically the plot of Die Hard 2 (1990), where bad guys take over the instrument landing system and make a plane crash on landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_2
- tialaramex 7y agoSort of, you can see a real 747 pilot discuss the many inaccuracies (not that Die Hard intends to be a pseudo-documentary) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqLbUF-2nWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqLbUF-2nWk The most important thing the movie doesn't do that would happen in real life is, when there's any problem everybody diverts to their alternate, even including people queued up already to land. "Huh, they had some kind of problem, guess we should go to... uh... Baltimore? Find that for me and I'll let them know". Nobody's going to hang about waiting to see if they can get killed by terrorists. But yes, they also recalibrate the height wrong in the movie to kill a 747 full of passengers and that wouldn't work either.