Flightplan

Flightplan (2005)

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Plot hole: Carson states to the captain that Kyle is a "hijacker" and is threatening to blow up the plane unless they transfer $50 million to an account (which we don't see.) He also tells the captain that she refuses to negotiate, and to agree to the ransom without speaking to her. In the next scene, Carson receives a call from the captain that the money has been transferred. Law enforcement would never agree to a ransom demand without talking or knowing who the so-called hijacker is. When Kyle later looks outside the plane, she sees bomb squad and law enforcement treating her as the hijacker. There is no proof or evidence that Carson has given that Kyle is a hijacker, nor is there a background check or identity on her. Law enforcement would have never treated this so seriously as they did at the end, nor would bomb squad have had the time to make it, as mentioned in another mistake.

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Suggested correction: There is no reason the captain shouldn't trust Carson. Even if Carson has no evidence, the fact that Kyle would use her daughter as a charade, that she seemed very frantic, and would sabotage the aircraft's systems to obtain and plant the explosives would probably be deemed credible enough to the captain that she is in fact a hijacker.

The entry is referring to the conversation where Carson tells the captain that Kyle is a hijacker. Kyle seeming frantic alone wouldn't count to the captain that Kyle is a hijackers unless she showed other signs of being a hijacker. And Kyle didn't use her daughter as a charade, or sabotage the aircraft's systems to obtain, and plant the explosives until long after the conversation where Carson tells the captain that Kyle is a hijacker so Carson would have needed to provide evidence that Kyle is a hijacker during the conversation. And the captain would have questioned the detonator, and other specifics.

Other mistake: When Kyle enters the bathroom to climb up in the room above it to mess with the wires, she locks the door. Yet the door opens for Carson to check it.

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Suggested correction: Actually, she escaped so that's why the door is now unlocked.

Suggested correction: Lavatory doors can easily be unlocked/opened by flight crew.

Factual error: Jodie Foster states that as a propulsion engineer, she knows the internal structure of the plane by heart and has worked extensively on it. The problem with that is that propulsion engineers work on the jet engines - which are all on the outside of the plane, on the wings. Sure, a propulsion engineer might have some basic knowledge of the plane's interior design and engineering, but the in-depth knowledge she claims comes from her job simply isn't right - that's the job of avionics engineers.

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