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  • Complete Monster: The Saboteur is a member of a terrorist group that wants to put the Fireflash flight program out of business. Sneaking aboard Fireflash 3, the Saboteur alters the flight computer to throw the plane off-course and cuts the Elevator Power Unit, causing the plane to crash into the Atlantic Ocean and leaving the pilot and 600 passengers onboard to drown because sea rescue units can't find it. The Saboteur then does the same with a test Fireflash flight, whose crew members only survive because of International Rescue's intervention. When confronted while sabotaging a third Fireflash test flight, the Saboteur boasts that the plane is finished and will disappear like its fellows before being killed.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: International Rescue in regards to how they handle the first Fireflash crash that ends in the death of all passengers on board. They know about the crash pretty much the moment it happens. They also know the Fireflash was not in the location it's pilots believed they where, and where the crashsite actually is. And yet, they decide to just just sit back and not only don't launch a rescue, but they don't even bother to radio the search and rescue teams to let them know they're looking in the wrong place.

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