Talk:Mayday at 40,000 Feet!

Technical inaccuracies

This section has been excised as it is a film, with all the errors attributed to resolving the circumstances of filming. It is not a documentary nor does it pretend to be wholly accurate. There are always going to be compromises to enable filming to take place. The reason for the pilot exiting the seat on the left is likely simply a way to best film the scene given that it is in a sound stage set rather than a real cockpit. The same applies to the pilot riding the brakes as it simply looks more dramatic. Correspondingly, the section is heavily edited. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:14, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

The pilot was NOT riding the brakes. His feet were on the bottom of the rudder pedals and the brakes can only be activated by pushing on the TOP of the rudder pedals. The plane veering sharply right and left and back again, as the pilot kept pushing the rudder pedals rapidly back and forth was patently absurd. Without hydraulic power, the rudder cannot be moved with those pedals and neither can the nose-wheel steering. All of that silly scripting indicates the producers were too cheap to do it right and also indicates they have utter contempt for the general public's ability to comprehend films that are based on fact, instead of sensationalist fantasies of screen writers. Criticism about those kinds of deliberate inaccuracies are legitimate in the article, if they can be sourced with WP:RS. Finally, since you have admitted to being a movie script writer yourself, any action you take to alter such legitimate criticisms, violates the Wikipedia no COI editing rule.EditorASC (talk) 12:52, 21 June 2016 (UTC)