My father was an Air Reservist at O'Hare at the time...would watch Steve Canyon and complain bitterly about how fake it was.
All TV shows and movies about the military, police, firemen, lawyers, and doctors are FAKE.
If they were realistic they wouldn't last two weeks.
Workers are lucky to have ONE interesting incident in their whole career, let alone every week.
How many lifeguards actually saved somebody?
But, in the episode where Steve Canyon had to shoot down an B-47 because the cabin pressure failed and it was headed for Russia. Did you see that?
Unrealistic, but Payne Stewart's private jet did the same thing. It ran out of fuel before it got to Canada.