The movie “United 93,” about passengers trying to take back one of the airliners hijacked on the morning of 9/11, was released nationally on Friday. All the reviews and talk shows described it as a highly charged event, so very personal to the survivors, and difficult for anyone to watch.
I looked at the full-page ad yesterday (Friday) morning, in The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. And I said, “Uh-oh.”
The ad showed the image of an aircraft, taking off, its landing gear still down. At its wingtips were V-shaped vanes, that immediately identified the aircraft as an Airbus product.
The United 93 flight was not an Airbus, but a Boeing 757. What a terrible gaffe. A major movie company does its best to re-create in detail the awful events of United 93, trying to honor the heroism and deaths of those people who defied the hijackers, and then puts the wrong aircraft in the ads distributed to the national print media.
This morning, Saturday, the ad in The New York Times showed the same airplane, but with the vanes airbrushed out. So I wasn’t the only one (how could I be?) to catch the mistake. But it is still an Airbus, one of the short-range versions, in the ad. You can’t airbrush an entire aircraft out of a movie ad, and there wasn’t time, apparently, to recreate the ad with a 757.
The ads should have been pulled entirely. As it is, in tomorrow’s Times, look for the ad either to be pulled, or for more airbrushing. This morning, the aircraft in the ad has a single set (two wheels, side-by-side) of left and right landing gear. A 757 has dual sets of main landing gear.
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