Factual error: Elaine (the stewardess) is looking for a doctor. She finds Dr. Rumack who's wearing a stethoscope. He has it on backwards. The earpieces should point forward - his are pointing backward.
Airplane (1980)
1 factual error
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Lorna Patterson
Revealing mistake: In the dance sequence, we see Elaine twirling Ted around and throwing him into the crowd. Watch the top-right-corner of your screen, as the stunt-double lands in the audience you can see Robert Hays (Ted Striker) in the top-right-corner waiting to pop out. (00:19:10)
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
Trivia: The credits list "generally in charge of a lot of things" as one of the job titles. (01:26:00)
Question: Right after Ted is dumped by Elaine, was that Harrison Ford that played the religious zealot he punched out?
Answer: The man that was punched was Conrad Palmisano. He's credited as Religious Zealot #4.
Answer: No, that was David Leisure, who was the Joe Izuzu Guy.
Pam-I-am
Actually, no it wasn't David Leisure, he plays one of the Krishnas.