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It makes no sense...

posted 4 years ago by Martoto (5024)
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It's batted away quite neatly in the dialogue in the movie but the idea that all those planes could be held in a pattern by a phony ATC/Tower is preposterous. As soon as the tower got taken over there were still dozens of ways that the word could have gotten out from the airport. And as soon as one or two planes got the word it could have been relayed to all planes before there was any danger of them being brought down by the terrorists.

And what about the crews in the planes already on the ground. There was nothing stopping them from broadcasting to all the planes in the pattern about what was happening at the airport.

The antenna being blown up would have been spotted by at least one plane also.

[–] millsey72 (10244) 3 years ago

Its a plot hole

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 3 years ago

I never thought of that before.
a proper real polthole!

That asswipe reporter was making phone cals - they could have domne it that way

[–] PaladinNJ (21509) 3 years ago

They said in the movie that several of the planes had been contacted via air phones. Not all were equipped with them.

[–] Martoto (5024) 3 years ago

Yeah but the radios on those planes were working..

Then there's the direct radio channels between airliners and their company dispatchers.

[–] PaladinNJ (21509) 3 years ago

Absolutely. They could have covered this by simply having Stewart say he jammed their communications. How I don’t know but at least they could say they did it