Poetic license is one thing, the plot is so implausible as to go and see Jesus walk on water down on the duck pond!

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 1999)

Frankly, this film was so pathetic, I feel that some comments need to be mentioned. Firstly, all the controllers had to do to avoid the entire situation was to use one of the radios on board any aircraft on the ground. This is very easy to accomplish. Regardless of what is happening on the ground, the aircraft commander is responsible for his aircraft, and as such is not going to circle/hold until he/she runs out of fuel. That is the main reason aviation regulations stipulates holding fuel and diversion fuel. Aircraft fuel Jet A1 is basically wide cut paraffin and as such in cold weather a bucket-full could be used to DOUSE a small fire. It needs to be atomised to combust properly. A two hundred pound man running through a jet engine would do a lot more than just make pretty colours on the fuselage. A coat trapped in the inboard ailerons could be freed from the flight deck by turning the control wheel in the opposite direction and let the airflow remove it. All ILS (Instrument Landing Procedures) have a check height over the marker at approximately three degree glideslope so two hundred feet low should be picked up very early during the approach. Even depicting a three engined tri-star L1011 externally and a B747 cockpit kills the realism. Need I say more! If one could turn back time, then I suggest that this film be removed from the bowels of the film vaults to never be shown again. It is a shame that Bruce willis was expected to carry this pathetic excuse for a film for almost two hours.