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This documentary is based on the real life experience
of the director as a former airline pilot, who acted
and directed WHISKY ROMEO ZULU, a feature film that
fictionally recreates
the events preceding the crash on August 31 1999
of a LAPA Boeing 737 which went on flames after crashing
into a mound in midtown Buenos Aires causing the death of 67 people.
In this documentary the director shows the behind-the-scenes
of the disastrous state of civil aviation in
Argentina. Much of this is due to the inexplicable
situation in which civil aviation is entirely militarized
and under total control of the Air Force since the last
military coup thirty years ago. Argentina
is the only country with this rare privilege.
With
hidden cameras in the control tower and 3D
animations to convey the true version of
two fatal air crashes in Argentina, the director
(an aircraft accident investigator himself)
makes his point on how corruption within the Air
Force is directly affecting air safety. We see
and understand many incredible close calls of
aircraft on the verge of a fuel emergency
and almost hit by rockets, and the recordings
of their real conversations. Television footage
depicting corruption of Air Force officials
poses a strong warning on would be accidents. |
