Factual error: When flight 227 departs Orlando, the thrust increases for 3 minutes. It should have increased for 30 seconds.
Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, in the wide shot there is no cellphone on the night table on the left at Whip's side. In the close-up a cell phone appears.
Continuity mistake: When Whip goes to see his ex-wife and son, he parks with a fire hydrant by the front right fender. He takes a drink, gets out of the car, and the fire hydrant has vanished.
Continuity mistake: When Whip is watching the crash on TV, the (CGI) plane seems big while flying against the church, but when it lands and it's seen in comparison with the people on the field, it is awkwardly small.
Continuity mistake: When Nicole knocks the box with the syringe and all the drug-stuff, the syringe falls far away from the box, but it appears very close to it in the next shot.
Answer: I don't really think it was a setup. No one was setting him up. They just wanted answers to why he's hiding. I find it hard to believe that no-one heard the loud banging (mini fridge with booze, passed out drunk in the bathroom) plus the loud radio from 2:08 to 9:15. Not even the night guard heard that? He should have definitely been in the room with Whip to keep an eye on him. When he visits his son, the person watching him might have been a news person. The NTSB wants the flight crew to keep their silence and distance from reporters so that they can do their investigation. Too much from the press causes misinformation and hysteria. But yes, the longer the silence the more it can be used against you. So in a way it could have been a conspiracy theory.