Didn't anyone watch the movie Mayday tonight?

[serryjw]

I was sorry it was not a 2 parter. I would love to see the Airline President get out of this one.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Yeah -- it was pretty good

Not one for the ages, but better than the average TV movie.

Unfortunately, the plot -- and the CEO's behavior -- hung on a piece of insurance trivia they got wrong. In fact, if an insurer or a big company is hit with claims that can't be covered, the loss is farmed out to the reininsurance industry.

I suppose it's because most CEOs like to steal their money legally.

--p!

[NewJeffCT]

5. you only get reinsurance if you have an agreement ahead of time

If you are the company that has the insurance policy on an airplane for say, $25,000,000, you would then shop around to various reinsurance companies and get a policy that would cover everything after the first X amount of damage - say $1,000,000 is company by the ABC Insurance Company, who wrote the initial policy, and then the rest is covered by XYZ Reinsurance. However, ABC is still liable for the whole $25,000,000, they would then have a contract to recover the remaining $24,000,000 with XYZ.

If ABC didn't get that kind of policy, then they're liable for the whole $25,000,000.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. What insurance company DOESN'T do reinsurance?

I think that all the so-called "A-rated" insurance companies are heavily reinsured. If the insured has a massive loss, that loss is distributed through the insurance industry. Unless things have changed a lot since the early 1980s, when I worked in the insurance industry (just long enough to know I never wanted to work in the insurance industry again). However the insurance really works, none of the really big travel companies is going to risk corporate death over loss of a single aircraft or group of travelers.

Anywho, I just thought it was an unlikely motivation for getting rid of the plane.

--p!

[Fescue4u]

2. I was entertained, but proably not in the way

the writers had imagined.

Knowing more than a few things about aviation, I was laughing at much of what they got wrong.

My favorite was the decompression that dragged the flight engineer out of the bathroom, down first class, down the stairs, down the aisle, and finally out the hole....and took what seemed like 10 minutes to do it....

ALso interesting how the flight crew completely forgot how to don oxygen masks, and how they were given only 60 second supply.

Once I FORCED myself to look past about a hundred ludicrous mistakes, it was fairly interesting and did manage to hold my attention to the end.

One part that was actually quite good...they were running low on fuel beause they were flying so low, where jets gobble fuel at FAR greater rates than at altitude.

[ekelly]

9. And didn't the flight attendant

know about the people in the conference room? (I would assume she would have been told)

NOBODY went to check on them....EVER.....until the rescue guys at the end.

[Piperay]

3. I watched it and

I enjoyed it, it was an interesting movie.:popcorn:

[formercia]

4. I assume made for TV movies are covert propaganda

I have better ways to entertain myself.

[soup]

7. covert propaganda?

You'll change your tune if we're ever on a plane in the wrong place at the wrong time and it gets hit with a secret project drone fired missile and we're the only ones who are left alive and alert because we were stuck in a bathroom or an elevator when it happened so we got enough oxygen and didn't pass out or die and we weren't sucked out the side of the plane and we've lost almost all forms of communication and almost everyone on the ground who knows about it is trying to cover it up to save their own skin and bank accounts and rank and the military is after us to shoot us down and the airline and insurance company are feeding us false information about keeping the plane in the air because covering their own asses is more important than our lives and oh yeah the pilot and co-pilot are out of it too because they only had one little canister of oxygen to rely on and one of their last actions is to set the auto-pilot to 11,000 feet and I turn that plane around to go back home so we avoid getting knocked down by a military jet who's been ordered to shoot us out of the sky and when that plane turns the pilot of the military jet realizes there are people alive on the plane and it's not derelict but in extreme distress and he bravely and firmly refuses follow-up orders to shoot us down and we're flying into a storm and I'm the one at the controls and the one who's going to land the plane in San Fransisco and I know what Not to do and won't follow the erroneous instructions transmitted from the conniving asses on the ground trying to save their companies' bank accounts and pass off responsibility for the loss onto the company that designed and built the plane so I won't push the wrong buttons and turn off the fuel lines to the engines since I watched the movie and you didn't and when the time comes and I hit those afterburners to correct the yaw and roll and manage to bring it in straight and true and even though we're nose to the ground and we're shooting a huge trail of sparks and it's not looking good I stop it before we run off the end of the runway into the Bay and save not only your life and mine but the lives of all the unconscious people AND a printed out copy of all the false info transmissions so we have truth on our side and can nail those people who were trying to hush it up ...

All I can say is - gee howdy, if that ever happens, you'll thank me for watching the movie, formercia. You - you - naysayer, you! So there. :P

-- :hi: --

Actually, for a made-for tv movie, it was pretty good. Would have liked, and watched, an on the ground 'you're so busted!' follow-through.

[formercia]

8. It probably would have been entertaining

but it's more of the mass hysteria post 9/11 crap we keep seeing. What ever happened to Ozzie and Harriet? lol

I prefer non-fiction programs, as rare as they might be.