Directed by Stuart Baird, starring Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Kurt Russell, Oliver Platt, Steven Seagal (add more)
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In the scene when the soldiers sneak into the plane, they go through heavy turbulence. With the whole plane shaking, the main terrorist decides to go into the cockpit. On his way up he picks up an Uzi from a trolley or something. The point is that the weapon was just lying there, in perfect reach for passengers and flight attendants. Not very professional to let your guns lie around. [Professional or not, character mistake.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
How come when they are on the Remora F-117x the pilot is the only one wearing an oxygen mask? The team only has headsets on. [The "cargo bay" is pressurized.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
In the scene where the terrorist blows himself up in the London restaurant, it is night there. This scene is shown shortly after the planes depature from a daylighted Athens. It is impossible for it to be night in London and late afternoon in Athens. [London and Athens are only one time zone apart and the plane has flown some distance from Athens before the hijacking. It is possible that the sun has set by the time the bomb explodes in London.]
During the final landing approach to Dulles, Virginia and subsequently go around, the aircraft was suddenly nearby to Frederick, Maryland. Why would the protagonist choose to land at FDK with a 5,000-foot runway instead of circling around again to Dulles with a 10,000-foot runway. Certainly the flight time of a circling, second approach to Dulles would be less than that to fly to FDK. [Dr. David Grant (Kurt Russell) explains very clearly why he can't circle around for another attempt at the same runway: In not so many words he says he is not an experienced pilot and knows almost nothing about flying planes, especially jumbo jets, and is unable to circle around for another attempt. The best he can manage is to turn the plane at little to line the plane up at another runway.]
At the end of the movie, why in the world is the back door open, yet no emergency chute shown? Surely, after that sort of landing, they would have used normal emergency procedures? [On 'landing', the front gear collapsed thus elevating the tail. As such the emergency chute would not have been long enough for a safe descent to the ground and not deployed.]
The crew sent to board the ill fated jumbo jet is in what appears to be an F-117A Stealth Fighter. The scenes in that plane, the briefing scenes; are they taking up the entire fuselage of a single seat fighter, sitting where the engines are supposed to be? Or is this some new government plane that doesn't have any means of propulsion.... [No, in both cases. The Remora is a top-secret plane designed to transport and transfer passengers to other planes in flight. All this was explained at the start of the movie. The reason for the resemblance to the F-117A is obvious - the Remora requires the same stealth capability; for a covert insertion onto an aircraft, you don't want local air-traffic control to see you coming and warn the plane in question.]
As they are disarming the bomb, the hard drive on the bomb has no cover. A speck of dust would destroy an exposed hard drive and it would never be used exposed like that. [The hard drive in question was part of a decoy bomb, as stated in the movie. Therefore, any dirt, etc would have no effect on it, since it was just there for show.]
When Hassan kills the pilots at the end, he sweeps his machine gun in an arc through the back wall of the cockpit. When the dead pilots are shown, one has a circular cluster of four bullet holes in his back. [The pattern of the bullets in the pilot's back are consistent with the bullet holes in the wall to the cockpit. Both are consistent with the spacing that would occur when automatic weapons are fired in the manner as in the movie.]
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