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- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:35:12 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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- References: <78488@hydra.gatech.EDU>,<1992Dec22.083229.12868@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.083229.12868@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, clueless@bradley.edu (Mark Kristie) writes:
- >Jorge Diaz (ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU) wrote:
- >: In article <1992Dec15.203113.4791@Virginia.EDU> rrb2x@Virginia.EDU (Richard Ramiaz Banks) writes:
- >
- >: > Concerning your Die Hard II complaints: you can eject
- >: >from any aircraft--except a helicopter--while it is still on
- >: >the ground; they did try to reroute the airplanes during the
- >: >movie. The ones with the most fuel were sent elsewhere,
- >: >whereas those with little fuel flew in a circular pattern.
- >
- >: Sorry, dude, if you have enough fuel to circle for 2 hours, you can fly
- >: to another airbase.
- >
- >You don't if you're told by the airport to circle and wait cuz they're
- >going to have their systems back up shortly.... By the time you realize
- >it's too late, you don't have enough fuel left....
-
-
- I think the point was that in real life the airport would NEVER have let
- the planes just circle for two hours in the hopes that they would have
- things fixed by then. They would have been diverted immediately.
- But, of course, then there wouldn't have been a movie.
-