Originally posted by AA 1818
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Much of the documentary talks about the events surrounding the crash of an Austral's DC-9 (the lack of enforcement of an AD requiring the installation of an alarm to alert that the pitot heat was off, the differences in requirements in recurrent training among the different airlines, and issues related with fatigue such as rest time and vacations that were due for years). But there is much more. Like the poor English skills of the controllers that deal with international flights, the lack of action after recurrent pilots' report of problems with the rudder of the 737, the poor radarization of our airspace, and the lack of NOTAM in an event where the Navy was doing an exercise that involved launching a rocket which triggered the missile alarm of a Lufthansa flight.
By the way, after the movie the government started a process to take the civil aviation out of the Air Force control and to a civil authority. This process is complete. Not that this necessarily means that things are much better now.
As a movie, I like more WRZ because it's not a documentary, and so it's much more fun. Both movies are eye openers, but one has to always keep in mind that this is just one side of the story, and that Piñero has an agenda behind. So they are not a neutral points of view.
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