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[David] We start off on this incredibly long runway

and then this Antonov airplane comes in to land.

On the front of it, you sort of sit back

and think, well how are going to do that for real?

But then, Justin comes along and says,

Well, we can't get a real plane,

but we can build most of a real plane.

So, you know, he'll go to whatever lengths he can

to shoot stuff in camera, to get stuff for real.

So we built a huge set piece for the Antonov.

75 feet long, and 70 feet wide,

it was the main section of the fuselage

where the wheels and the undercarriage meet the ground.

Obviously, once the plane is in the air,

it has to be digital.

There's no way to run cars fast enough

to get alongside an airplane, or to film with it safely.

And then they had another set piece

which forms the ramp at the back of the plane,

because a lot of the action revolves

around cars going in and out.

So Justin was adamant that that had to happen for real

and it had to be done at speed,

on the runway, in the real locations.

And then the last set piece that they built

was for the destruction,

but there were a few different set pieces for that.

Again, it wasn't dressed, it wasn't picture ready,

but it was a 1:1 scale, partial build

of the center of the fuselage and the wings and engines

and also the nose of the plane.

And then, special effects supervisor Joss Williams

was able to basically run that down the runway,

set it on fire, trigger explosions,

and actually have the cars in camera

running in front of it.

We spent a long time looking

at the dynamics of the construction of the fuselage.

The way that the rib structures were clad

with this fairly lightweight metal.

And as the plane impacted, the ribs compressed

and the plane basically started to shrug

its metal surface off

and you get this little ripple running back through it,

through the plane.

The cameramen can go out and react to something,

the DOP can go out and expose for the fire correctly.

The stunt drivers that are in the cars,

are sort of, driving for their lives

because they basically gotta fully ton

burning plane rig chasing them down the runway.

And all that stuff adds to the realism I think.

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