I had written a script about a pilot. He screws up big-time during a flight and tries to make an emergency landing in a river but fails and crash lands into a school for disabled children.
Miracuously, the pilot is among the few to survive, but he is vilified throughout the country when the blackbox recordings reveal him to be an inept coward who could've clearly saved the flight (nearly 100 were killed) had he not panicked so completely.
In a second-act twist, the pilot tries to redeem himself by lying that birds flew into the engines and caused the crash, but this backfires when the cause of the crash (the source of his panic) is officially found to be a torn fuselage and not engine-related.
True to form, the story ends with the pilot attempting to hang himself in his jail cell but once again failing. The press mock him ruthlessly for being too incompetent to even tie a noose.
Well. I certainly can't sell that now.
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