Not surprising. Some years ago, NBC did a television exposé on Chevy and GMC pickups. The vehicles were supposed to be fire hazards in a side collision because of the location of the fuel tanks. The program showed a whole slew of firey collisions, with doomsday commentary by the film's producers. General Motors was understandably upset and questioned their facts. It turned out that NBC had made one teensy weensy modification to the vehicles fuel tanks. It seems the tanks wouldn't explode as they were supposed to in the staged collisions, so NBC had strapped small explosive charges to them and would set the charges off by remote control. Presto, made to order infernos.
As for the helicopter charter, the operator should have taken off and then kicked the ba$tards out the door from a thousand feet. Nip that little experiment in the bud, pronto.
