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. The film also features an Agusta A109.
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