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A bit of context is that the FAA doesn't want plane crashes at all (unless you're NASA), even "safe ones" because of the public image, so it's extremely difficult to get a waiver for a stunt if there is a real risk of crashing an airplane, even if it's empty and as safe as possible, it's not about safety, it's about public image. People afraid of flying are a very difficult crowd to manage.

>>nrayna+(OP)
Huh, managing people sounds very ominous.

>>nrayna+(OP)
Surely they crash real planes in movies from time-to-time no?

Or is it really always all CGI?

>>SirMas+dy
Yes, there are real planes sometimes used in movie stunts for doing crashes, it's not all CGI, although most is, doing real things like that costs a lot of money.

But regardless, if "not scaring fly-scared people" was actually a concern, any planes crashing in movies would be forbidden, not just real planes crashing in movies. But it's not.

>>SirMas+dy
Or maybe they film that part in another country.

>>nrayna+(OP)
The FAA generally only has jurisdiction over American airspace, while other countries may be a bit more willing to allow deliberate crashes. In 2012, an experiment that involved deliberately crashing a 727 took place in Mexico, as the FAA was unwilling to grant approval to conduct the experiment, but Mexcian authorities were more tolerant of the idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime...

>>capabl+zB
Not likely given the broad sweep of the First Amendment. Much easier for the FAA to deny a license to crash a plane under various safety rationales than to say "you can't show that because of the message" in the United States. The latter is almost certainly unconstitutional.

>>SirMas+dy
it's higly unlikely that they would do anything else than dropping it from a crane, which is not overseen by the FAA.

>>SirMas+dy
tenet featured a real plane blowing up (a B747), and that's a 2020 movie.

So I guess they can crash planes.

And I hope the public makes the difference between a Christopher Nolan movie and what can happen to them on their way to Hawaii.