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When everyone is getting ready to leave the oil drilling base, Dennis Quaid is standing at the rear hatchway of the plane wearing his leather jacket, the camera view changes to a view of behind him, and he's not wearing it, he's in a yellow shirt, when the view goes back to the front, he has the jacket on again. See more...

Flight of the Phoenix (2004) - 21 corrections

Directed by John Moore, starring Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Otto, Tyrese (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

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Some parts of the Gobi are indeed very arid but the size of the truly arid part is exaggerated in the movie; it is ~much~ smaller than the Sahara where the original movie was set. If they are already near or south of the Chinese border, then by simply travelling roughly south east they are bound to find either a major watercourse or substantial civilization within ~at most~ 250 miles, and in the region that is very sandy and subject to severe sandstorms, more likely 40 to 50 miles. Not talking here about trying to strike on a particular small oasis or town, but something so big you can't miss it, e.g. the Hwang Ho (Yellow River). A fit person travelling at night on reasonable ground can do 250 miles in 7 nights. (Actually, as ultramarathoners have demonstrated, a very fit person on good ground can do it in two to three nights.) The suggested impossibility of walking out for help was just an inaccurate plot device forced on the scriptwriter by moving the setting to the Gobi. [First, fifty to seventy miles in a waterless desert is just as bad as two hundred miles. In fact, you'd be dead in thirty miles because of the desert Catch 22 - you cannot carry the weight of water needed to keep you alive. Ultramarathoners do not rely on the water they carry - they have rest stops and support vehicles, facilities sadly lacking in aircraft crash sites. Secondly, the survivors do not know where they are. They don't know which country they are in, let alone which direction the nearest town or river is. They make the right decision (given the need for drama in a film) - stay with the vehicle.]

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