Turbulent Skies (2010)
When a new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own, is about to have its first flight. But the son of the owner decides to upload more software, he doesn't bother to check if there are any viruses with it. And he also invites some potential investors to try it. So the plane appears to be working well but suddenly it veers off course and it can't be shut down. When the military learns of this and fears what if something happens if it's over a populated area; decides to shoot it down along with everyone on board. The man who built the computer whose wife is among the passengers thinks if he can get on board he might be able to shut it down and regain control of the plane. So the military using a new plane gets him on board. But what he didn't know is that both pilots are incapacitated so there's no one who can fly the plane.
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A plane's engine is on fire. The pilot opts to cut off the fuel in flight to stop the fire, however the engine doesn't restart and the plane crashes. The operator was blamed for "human error" even though the black box (never mentioned) would have exonerated the pilot. Brad Dourif plays the evil capitalist wanting to exploit the accident to promote his new CD-70 automatic pilot, based on predator drone technology. Casper Van Dien is not too sure about using the M-5 eh ah CD-70. Lets see...if I was to guess they use the CD-70, it messes up and Casper must save the day by killing giant alien bugs. And the reason why I am guessing is that it became too painful to watch the film all the way through. It was bad...real bad, as in destroy your copy, don't give it away bad.The acting and script felt like a bad movie made for TV circa 1975. Don't waste your time or money.
I have watched four minutes of this film, and can bear to watch no more. In these four minutes alone, I have seen:1. An airliner flying at FL250 (or 25,000ft) with the landing gear extended and with the flaps in a landing configuration.2. The first officer says that the #2 engine N1 is falling, then it cuts to the engine display where the N1 is stable.3. The captain and the first officer are both flying manually, each holding their yokes at the same time.4. After the flight attendant informs the pilots that the engine is on fire, the first officer looks at the captain and asks: "What do we do? Captain?" - in fact he should know exactly what to do, as it would have formed a huge part of his training and type certification. There are checklists that exist for that very procedure.5. They then try to restart the engines by slamming the throttle levers to full, then idle, then full, then idle.6. They make a mayday call to 'Central Tower' at FL250.7. Footage of the plane 'crashing' reveals a third engine...I'm sorry, I can't bring myself to watch any more. If you know absolutely nothing about aviation, then perhaps you would be able to watch this film - but I just cant do it. I'm sorry.
Without taking anything from the plot, there is to mention, that some inaccuracies appear in this film: - In the beginning (the first plane appearing with the elderly captain) has the landing gear extended during the flight at 25.000 feet altitude. This is highly unrealistic, as the gear would not stand such a force. Normally landing gear is retracted immediately after getting airborne. - Lightning cannot affect the pilot's activity in the cockpit. The plane builds a "Faraday's Cage" meaning that lightning, when hitting the plane, gets diverted in different directions along the fuselage, causing no impact to people inside the plane. - the captains decision to shut down the burning engine in the first chapter of the film was not wrong, so it cannot been taken as an argument for an automated pilot. Having said this, the captains behavior is quite indecisive for an experienced pilot, he appears rather senile.
i cannot believe i watched the whole thing ridiculous poor acting the worst movie i have ever seen and i have seen some real junk how anyone could release something like this is beyond me..if i was one of the actors i would change my name and move to cuba maybe i could start over there. complete and utter useless piece of trash. no redeeming qualities at all in any way shape or form i cannot believe that a studio would release something like this.poor acting the worst movie i have ever seen and i have seen some real junk how anyone could release something like this is beyond me..if i was one of the actors i would change my name and move to cuba maybe i could start over there. complete and utter useless piece of trash. no redeeming qualities at all in any way shape or form i cannot believe that a studio would release something like this.