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Swordfish
(2001) - in Dominic Sena's heist thriller, a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane (notable for its
boom fuselage) airlifts the robbers' hostage-laden bus off a road bridge to fly over
L.A. streets, where it smashes into a tower's neon sign (a CGI visual effect), wrecks
an entire floor of an office block, and then puts the dangling bus down on a rooftop.
The computer hacker hero (Hugh Jackman) shoots down the villains' getaway chopper (an
MD 900 Explorer, with distinctive NOTAR system) with a missile launcher. This aerial
explosion features a quarter-scale model helicopter, which had to be enhanced digitally,
when the pyrotechnics of the filmed stunt work proved to be unsastisfactory.
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