The Lima, Peru Flight
People are complaining about this "movie" being boring with bad acting, but I disagree. Especially the Lima, Peru flight depicted. I was so upset by the end of that one, I was screaming at my TV! I saw someone else on here post (and I guess they are a pilot?) about it, and it answered some of my questions. What made me so angry was that the two pilots (I guess in real life they were both men) kept asking the tower, or ground control, to give them their altitude and speed, because none of the plane's instruments were reading correctly, and it seemed like ground control wasn't taking them seriously. They weren't continuously feeding them the info, and when they did, the pilots kept asking again and again, "Are you sure?" and "Is that correct?" Well, when I read the words 'Controlled descent into terrain' at the end, I was so pissed off. I didn't hear ground control give them ANY indication they were descending into the ground, and even if they were receiving their readings from the erroneous readings of the plane (why would they do that, why wouldn't they be pinging their own separate readings?) they still never told the pilots to pull up or warn them that they were descending directly into the terrain. Why??!!! The pilots also asked multiple times for a guidance plane to be scrambled to their location to fly them in, but, again, the tower didn't seem to jump on that fast enough, the first few times the pilots asked, I didn't even hear any positive indication that ground control was even working on that. And ground control sounded way too calm during the entire thing, they didn't sound concerned at all, it really pissed me off. Unless I was misunderstanding what I was watching and hearing, at the very least, the Lima, Peru crash could have been either avoided, or not nearly as catastrophic as it turned out, had ground control done their job correctly and properly assisted those pilots. How come the one pilot was reading through the plane's manual, why wasn't a crew on the ground looking through the same manuals to help them??!! Ugghh....that one "skit" really upset me, and if it affected me that much emotionally, the acting couldn't have been so bad. The movie is fine, it's just very different from what most people are used to watching. It's not boring. You're watching (or more importantly, listening) to the real life LAST moments of multiple plane flights that ended in either full fatalities, no survivors, or only a couple that have any survivors at all. The very first flight has no fatalities, and it lulls you into expecting nothing too major, but EVERY flight depicted beyond the first one is FULL FATALITIES, or nearly so. Just to warn people. But, back to the Lima, Peru accident, it was caused by the maintenance crew doing something wrong? I didn't understand what happened there. Something about the maintenance crew sealing something over? I don't remember the exact wording, but I wanted a further explanation of what that meant and how it caused all their instruments to fail?? Anyone know or can explain that?
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