The Dark Knight Rises-Special effects and edits

Mid-air plane decommissioning

Special effects and edits used-

The sequence was filmed in Scotland. This dark "CIA turboprop" took off from Inverness airport. The sequence was filmed over the Cairngorm Mountains of the Scottish highlands. The only Cairngorms have been described as "Britain's highest mountain range- incredibly cold, incessantly windy and one of the harshest environments" in the British Isles. Perfect, for littering aircraft debris without hitting anyone or anything on the ground.
Airborne, the CIA turboprop is shown being followed by a huge white cargo plane. This is a Lockheed C130 Hercules, of the type used by the United States military. The lumbering C130 an ideal vehicle for a stunt such as this, because its stall speed is as low as 96.5 knots (111 m.p.h); so a camera crew in a helicopter was easily able to match the speeds of the planes and record the exterior action.
For the action going on inside the CIA plane, a simulator was built at studios in Cardington, England; the director could rotate, shake and twist the fuselage while the actors inside tumbled around- almost as if they were weightless.
When the C130 is above the CIA aircraft, its near cargo ramp is lowered and four stuntmen drop down from it, tethered to cables. 
At some point here- during a sequence of quick edits- the CIA plane is replaced by a glider mockup that had been towed aloft from the Cairngorm Glider Club in nearby Feshie.