Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)

Original title

Whisky Romeo Zulú

Directed by

Enrique Piñeyro

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An airline pilot turned whistle-blower examines the events leading up to a deadly 1999 plane crash in Buenos Aires. The film shows how deregulation, corporate greed and government corruption contributed to the disaster.

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What happens

Whisky Romeo Zulu is a 2004 Argentine drama film directed by Enrique Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Emiliano Torres. Verónica Cura was the executive producer and Enrique Piñeyro was the producer. The drama is based on the experiences of Enrique Piñeyro, former airline pilot turned whistle-blower, who became a film actor-director, and of the August 31, 1999 LAPA (Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas) airline accident. The LAPA Boeing 737-200 plane, LAPA flight 3142, went into flames after crashing into a mound in midtown Buenos Aires, causing the death of 65 people, and severely injuring 17. The film's basic theme: the general corrosive deregulation, the greedy cost-cutting corporations, and the corrupt government officials, found in the Argentine airline industry. The film is named after the NATO phonetic alphabet version of the identifier of the accident aircraft, LV-WRZ (Lima Victor – Whisky Romeo Zulu) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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