Whisky Romeo Zulu Page #5

- How do you know?

Because i'm there.

How do you know technicalities

are true?

Because we supervise.

Who? Adrian is still chief pilot.

What supervision?

- If he lies, we'll notice.

- What will you do? Ask me?

You're so whimsical.

- It's not a whim.

- You don't get it.

This is not a game.

It's a job. And jobs are necessary

for a living.

Stop, stop. I'm just saying

a plane will crash...

if you keep this up.

I even put it in writing!

Please don't do me any more favors.

Can't you see...

that our childhood is over?

I'm not the girl

you dreamt with.

Flying is not what you

thought it would be.

You're not the boy in the letter now.

Nothing's like you imagined.

- But?

- I'm fed up!

How the hell did

i end up here?

I can't keep dealing with a guy

who ruins everything.

You ruin everything!

You ruined your marriage,

you want to ruin mine.

You ruined your pilot dreams.

You want to ruin the company.

The company is my job.

What do you care?

You'll

get away with it anyway.

Get out of the car.

Take your letter and go!

Congratulations, he's resigned.

A few accusations, but hey...

good morning, follow me.

Good morning. Ready?

Let's start.

These are 100 technical reports.

There were 96 false alarms

in four months.

How does this affect

flight operations?

In the case of such degradation

of company standards,

a pilot is unlikely to react

adequately to an alarm.

I'm from the company operations.

- Where are they?

- Everywhere.

I need simulator and vacation files,

...and whisky romeo zulu's technical logs.

They may not be here.

I'll get them.

- Coffee?

- No, thank you.

Cabin crew, prepare for take-off.

On august 31, 1999 a lapa b737

registered whisky romeo zulu,

crossed costanera ave.

And caught fire

after a failed attempt

to abort take off.

62 passengers were killed,

together with the captain,

the co-pilot, the purser

and two passers by.

33 passengers suffered

injuries and burns.

On december 2000,

a federal court charged

the following people

with criminal ravagement or failure

to comply with the duties

of a public officer:

Lapa airlines:
Owner & president,

general director, operations mgr,

human resources mgr,

former operations mgr,

b737 line mgr;

argentine air force:

Air regions commander,

director of medical certifying board,

director of licensing dept.

There's a registration over there

with the name whisky romeo zulu.

I think it's lapa, not lap...

president, there're several deaths.

A estimate of 100 people...

it's a terrible tragedy.

Dr. Olivera has given me

some details.

We don't know if the plane

was landing,

or aborted take-off.

We still don't know if it was

a take-off or a landing...

but it ended, as you can see,

with these consequences.

There is also a list of survivors.

As a pilot, i can only think of

a simultaneous engine ingestion,

due to a flock of birds...

are you denying engine problem?

I'm not denying anything.

We are replacing these planes

with new ones,

but we have problems with the

famous school teachers tax.

I'd like to add...

that we're also victims.

...ex-pilot for lapa,

who filed a serious denounce...

on control and maintenance,

one of the hot topics in buenos

aires and the whole country

what did you report?

What did you see?

I offered the judge the letters...

that i wrote to the

lapa managers in 1996.

If company policies

were continued,

this is not only predictable

but also almost inevitable.

I noticed the presence

of the former lapa pilot.

Secondly, i noticed his disloyalty...

to the company

that had employed him.

He didn't seem to be in a good

psycho-physical condition.

The pilot was overdue

for 27 days.

It could prove that he wasn't

qualified to fly the plane.

Can the air force reassure

the flying public?

They can feel safe.

I consider...

the controls performed by

the authorities in argentina...

are better than those in any other

transport system in any other country.

Mr. Deutsch, just a few words.

4 years since the accident.

What can you say to the relatives?

That i'm very sorry.

- There are claims of ravagement.

- No.

- No ravagement?

- I don't think so.

Do you think you made a mistake?

Any regrets?

No, a human error.

It happens.

The judge doesn't think so.

He says the company didn't

consider the risk...

of not performing adequate maintenance.

Maintenance was 100/o,

better than other airlines'.

- Was it all capt. Weigel's fault?

- Totally.

Why was a pilot selected,

who took-off without noticing...

an alarm indicating that the

flaps had not been activated?

We'd picked him before that.

Two years with no holidays.

Other pilots, six years.

That's not true.

You're making it all up.

- The personnel files prove it.

- Have you seen those files?

- The judiciary has seen them.

- Is that so?

Why have you never asked

the relatives...

if they needed some kind of help?

We did. The insurance company

paid a lot of money.

Is it cheaper to pay insurance

than to maintain the planes?

Maintenance is 100/o.

Aren't you listening?

I'll say it again.

Lapa has been flying

for twenty-two years.

This was its first crash.

Its president, a pioneer,

has been crucified.

With the money andy deutsch

received for selling tiastores,

he could be in cote d'azur.

Sun, beautiful ladies.

Instead, he has to deal

with journalists who ask:

"Are you going to pay

the insurance?"

We're scaring off pioneers.

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