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A bit of context is that the FAA doesn't want plane crashes at all (unless you're NASA), even "safe ones" because of the public image, so it's extremely difficu
by nraynaud 3y ago
A bit of context is that the FAA doesn't want plane crashes at all (unless you're NASA), even "safe ones" because of the public image, so it's extremely difficult to get a waiver for a stunt if there is a real risk of crashing an airplane, even if it's empty and as safe as possible, it's not about safety, it's about public image. People afraid of flying are a very difficult crowd to manage.
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- Dah00n 3y agoHuh, managing people sounds very ominous.
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- SirMaster 3y agoSurely they crash real planes in movies from time-to-time no? Or is it really always all CGI?
- capableweb 3y agoYes, there are real planes sometimes used in movie stunts for doing crashes, it's not all CGI, although most is, doing real things like that costs a lot of money. But regardless, if "not scaring fly-scared people" was actually a concern, any planes crashing in movies would be forbidden, not just real planes crashing in movies. But it's not.
- piker 3y agoNot likely given the broad sweep of the First Amendment. Much easier for the FAA to deny a license to crash a plane under various safety rationales than to say "you can't show that because of the message" in the United States. The latter is almost certainly unconstitutional.
- grishka 3y agoOr maybe they film that part in another country.
- nraynaud 3y agoit's higly unlikely that they would do anything else than dropping it from a crane, which is not overseen by the FAA.
- hinata08 3y agotenet featured a real plane blowing up (a B747), and that's a 2020 movie. So I guess they can crash planes. And I hope the public makes the difference between a Christopher Nolan movie and what can happen to them on their way to Hawaii.
- thecapybara 3y agoThe FAA generally only has jurisdiction over American airspace, while other countries may be a bit more willing to allow deliberate crashes. In 2012, an experiment that involved deliberately crashing a 727 took place in Mexico, as the FAA was unwilling to grant approval to conduct the experiment, but Mexcian authorities were more tolerant of the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime...