20 Things You Probably Missed In Speed

7. The Visible Tow Cables Pulling The Bus Towards The Plane

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Keep your eyes peeled during the awesome climactic explosion where the evacuated bus collides with a freight plane, because all throughout the sequence you can see hints at how the jaw-dropping sequence was pulled off.

Basically, there are tow cables all over the floor during the scene, and this is because the only way to safely collide the two objects for real was to tow them towards one another with mechanical precision.

Despite the fact that the cables could've been painted out during post-production, it seemingly wasn't deemed noticeable enough to be worth the hassle.

Considering that 99.5% people have never even got close to noticing it, that's fair enough.

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