In an article at 9/11 conspiracy site Prison Planet, we learn the Hollywood provides a gold standard for accuracy … at least in the conspiracy theorists’ world:

Many skeptics point to the 1999 movie Pushing Tin as an example of the effects of wake turbulence. At the end of the film, the main characters, played by Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack, stand beneath a large commercial airliner as it comes in to land. The plane passes overhead and then lands on the runway, at which point both men are lifted up into the air and tossed a significant distance off to the side of the runway.

While a movie scene created by special effects can by no means be held up as empirical scientific evidence of the effects of wake turbulence it can at least be accepted that such a big budget production would go to great lengths to accurately portray what would happen.

“Pushing Tin” also featured air traffic controllers steering commercial passenger planes with the abandon of twelve year old boys at a go-kart track. Another accurate portrayal, no doubt.

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