[cgbg]

Life imitates art—in this case LE used a helicopter to kill cartel leadership:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2271474/Video-Mexican-cartel-boss-lieutenants-killed-helicopter-gunship.html

[basalt]

the first 2 movies were loosely, but brilliantly based a actual historic events, why Coppola and Puzo strayed from that was just stupid...the obvious no brainer would have been to bring the story up to date to the John Gotti/Sparks Steak House era...just a huge miss.

[Albion Wilde]

Then there was that 1985 real-life episode in Philadelphia where the police dropped an incendiary weapons from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by a disruptive black revolutionary cult, and it ended up burning an entire block down; eleven people died. Godfather III came out five years later.