Whisky Romeo Zulu
Movie (2005)
Starring:
Enrique Piñeyro (T)
Mercedes Morán (Marcela)
Alejandro Awada (Gonzalo)
Adolfo Yanelli
Carlos Portaluppi (Gordo)
Martin Slipak (Pequeño T)
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 737–204C 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)
Boeing 737-266 Advanced
Who could decipher the registration?
The director, a former pilot, shows us aircraft under every spot, sign that aviation is a love affair for him.
Boeing 737-7Q8
Anillaco is a municipality in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina; a Boeing 757-2Q8 of LAPA is too baptised with this name.
Boeing 737-204C
The rest of the real aircraft that crashed on 31/08/1999.
Registration LV-WRZ,c/n 203389/251.
Boeing 707-328
Scale model.
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Gloster Meteor F.4
Registration C-095, c/n G-5-195. This aircraft is located, as a monument, in front of the Edificio Condor, Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Boeing 757
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Douglas DC-4
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
De Havilland Canada DHC-8
Fokker F27 Friendship
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