Turbulence Movie

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I think it is Cinemax that have been running this 1997 film recently.  I was
mildly amused by it.

It begins with JFK shots of Tower 747-200 N614FF loading and taking off.
Besides painting it with a logo for Transcon Airlines, they also fiddled the
1 in the tail number so that it reads N644FF.  I didn't check the aircraft
on the field at LAX at the end.

The interior shots didn't look too bad.  They seem to have been in a 747-400
mockup of some kind, because they use a two person flight deck with CRT
displays.   There are lots of unbelievable things in the plot:  flying a 747
coast to coast with about a dozen passengers (excuse: it's Christmas day),
federal marshalls behaving in unprofessional ways with prisoners in transit,
both pilots leaving the flight deck at the same time.   If an airplane on
autopilot were caused to invert by extreme turbulence, would an autopilot
know enough to fly a while upside down and then get the plane back into
level flight rightside up?   Don't know if I can test this with MS Flight
Simulator........

One interesting bit is that one of the prisoners took out the soft soap pump
from the lav and found it to be a stainless steel stilletto suitable for
stabbing a marshal in the abdomen.  How many weapons can a hijacker find in
a big airplane?  Axes?  Fire Extinguishers? Screwdrivers?

Gerry
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