A CIA-sponsored aircraft does not detect a non-stealth plane flying slowly above its flight trajectory. This means that part of the subplot for this movie goes something like this:
U.S General: You wanted to see me Mr. President?
Obama: Yes, I unfortunately bring sad news my dear friend. The recession hit us hard. We have to make difficult decisions to save the economy - What I mean by that is ... Radars.
U.S General: I'm sorry sir, I am not sure I fallow.
Obama: Radars. We are going to scrap radars from U.S aircraft. All of them. Those things are luxuries we as the American people can no longer afford.
Bane being the mastermind that he is, knew about the lack of radars on CIA planes, otherwise his plan would have fell to ...
Also there are other problems with that scene:
a) The C.I.A. agents take in the hooded prisoners without checking them for any sort of concealed weapons, nor do they bother taking off any of the bags over their heads to see whom they were dealing with. This is the CIA we are talking about, an organization that was built on cautionary investigative methods.
b) Staging the crash. With forensic evidence and aeronautical analysis, the government could easily determine that the aircraft was attacked.
Bane commands one of his soldiers to stay in the crashing plane - a.k.a. to sacrifice his life - because the CIA will expect the crashed remains to have one prisoner body inside. But Bane simply wasted a comrade's life. The CIA has engineers and forensic experts that will be able to see that the plane was attacked from the exterior - bullets fired from outside the windows - and holes dug outside the cockpit by mechanical wrenches.
There is no way for the C.I.A. to assume nothing fishy and fancy happened. Considering the wings will be miles away from the rest of the remains (As we know planes cannot fly without their wings) - even an inbred postman would be able to grasp the physical concept that no plane can crash like this on its own. Thus, with all the efforts put into his master-plan, Bane sacrificed a soldier for nothing and put a lot of effort into a stealth operation that will simply not work. Which is all the more confusing when you think about the fact that the actor who plays the sacrificed soldier shows-up later in the film on a bridge scene with the U.S. army?
c) When the C.I.A. agent tries to make the prisoners talk, he threatens to kill the prisoners if they don't talk.
However you can clearly see that he doesn't want to kill the prisoners, he just wants to scare them, so we can conclude, that in the rapport filed with the agency, he declared 3 prisoners not one. Bane also sees through the C.I.A. guy's bluff (we can deduct this from his line "Why someone would shoot a guy before throwing him out of a plane"), but he asks just one guy to die in the crash.
d) Bane's guys start shooting chaotic through the plane's windows, and still Bane is not hit by their random storm of bullets.
P.S I KNOW THAT TECHNICALLY THIS ISN'T THE OPENING SCENE BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE WE WILL CONSIDER IT TO BE.
U.S General: You wanted to see me Mr. President?
Obama: Yes, I unfortunately bring sad news my dear friend. The recession hit us hard. We have to make difficult decisions to save the economy - What I mean by that is ... Radars.
U.S General: I'm sorry sir, I am not sure I fallow.
Obama: Radars. We are going to scrap radars from U.S aircraft. All of them. Those things are luxuries we as the American people can no longer afford.
Bane being the mastermind that he is, knew about the lack of radars on CIA planes, otherwise his plan would have fell to ...
Also there are other problems with that scene:
a) The C.I.A. agents take in the hooded prisoners without checking them for any sort of concealed weapons, nor do they bother taking off any of the bags over their heads to see whom they were dealing with. This is the CIA we are talking about, an organization that was built on cautionary investigative methods.
b) Staging the crash. With forensic evidence and aeronautical analysis, the government could easily determine that the aircraft was attacked.
Bane commands one of his soldiers to stay in the crashing plane - a.k.a. to sacrifice his life - because the CIA will expect the crashed remains to have one prisoner body inside. But Bane simply wasted a comrade's life. The CIA has engineers and forensic experts that will be able to see that the plane was attacked from the exterior - bullets fired from outside the windows - and holes dug outside the cockpit by mechanical wrenches.
There is no way for the C.I.A. to assume nothing fishy and fancy happened. Considering the wings will be miles away from the rest of the remains (As we know planes cannot fly without their wings) - even an inbred postman would be able to grasp the physical concept that no plane can crash like this on its own. Thus, with all the efforts put into his master-plan, Bane sacrificed a soldier for nothing and put a lot of effort into a stealth operation that will simply not work. Which is all the more confusing when you think about the fact that the actor who plays the sacrificed soldier shows-up later in the film on a bridge scene with the U.S. army?
c) When the C.I.A. agent tries to make the prisoners talk, he threatens to kill the prisoners if they don't talk.
However you can clearly see that he doesn't want to kill the prisoners, he just wants to scare them, so we can conclude, that in the rapport filed with the agency, he declared 3 prisoners not one. Bane also sees through the C.I.A. guy's bluff (we can deduct this from his line "Why someone would shoot a guy before throwing him out of a plane"), but he asks just one guy to die in the crash.
d) Bane's guys start shooting chaotic through the plane's windows, and still Bane is not hit by their random storm of bullets.
P.S I KNOW THAT TECHNICALLY THIS ISN'T THE OPENING SCENE BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE WE WILL CONSIDER IT TO BE.
