A pilot, only called "T" in the film, is known for his attention to safety, so much so that he annoys his employers. They tell him to bypass warning alarms, ignore guidelines in the tech manual, and fly with non-working instruments. Other employees are passed to pilot status even though they fail simulation training. As this happens more and more frequently, leading to him being grounded, T gets more and more frustrated.
He hooks up with an old school friend, a girl he had a serious crush on, and who is now a PR contact for the airline. Their relationship is strained when she defends the airline. There are other employees who are too scared to do anything, but ask T to be the whistleblower.
In a separate storyline, an investigator is looking into the airline regarding violations; he gets some pretty serious anonymous threats to back off on his investigation.
These threads converge horribly when there is an accident.
At the end of the film, there was some realistic looking post-crash footage so I wondered if this was a real life incident. More news footage shown at the end confirmed it was. The really remarkable thing is the actor who played T is in fact T in real life. The actor, Enrique Piñeyro, was very good and convincing, and his experience and passion shows. He had acted in a few projects, and was a former pilot for this company (which is thankfully out of business now). He is known as the Michael Moore of Argentina and produced this film.
Besides Piñeyro's performance, the story was pretty interesting and suspenseful (in a scary way). The actors who played the bureaucrats I guess were good because they played their parts just right--smarmy, liars, telling you what you wanted to hear. In the real news footage, the despicable airline execs tried to spin and backpedal, and it's amazing how they can double speak and talk around a question and somehow blame everything on the victims and the whistleblower himself. This seems to still happen in the business world, showing time again that money speaks louder than anything else.
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