Factual error: Doug Masters and his friend Reggie would be grounded on the spot and have their pilot's licences suspended (and in all likelihood cancelled) after buzzing the motorcyclist. Their flying is grossly unsafe. They would be visible for miles flying well below a safe altitude, but even if they were not seen their radio traffic and radar tracking would tell the authorities everything they needed to know.
Character mistake: When Doug Masters approaches his aircraft at the airfield before racing 'The Snake', Col Sinclair has a right hand access panel open on Doug's Cessna 150 upper engine cowling and is allegedly working on the fuel system saying "As lean as you were runnin', if it went into a stall, you woulda lost your engine, and would never been able to pull it out." The carburetor, gascolator, throttle linkage and carburetor control lines are on the bottom of the engine (Continental O-200). The panel he closes after sticking bubble gum on accesses the battery, the right hand magneto and the oil dipstick. Not only did Col Sinclair not do what he said he said he did without a sign-off in the aircraft's logbook, it would be totally unnecessary, as aviation updraft carburetors use a cockpit or engine controlled fuel mixture control that would have simply been left in 'full rich' position after engine start for the altitudes the aircraft would have been flying. And stalling is an aerodynamic condition of angle of attack being exceeded or insufficient airflow over flight surfaces, not fuel starvation, which is the condition being addressed. (00:11:30 - 00:12:30)
Continuity mistake: When Doug comes in to drop the Hades bomb you can see that the landing gear is down as if the plane is coming into land, but when the bomb is shown being dropped the gears are up.
Factual error: No way that an F-16 can hold as much ordinance that is fired from Doug Masters' plane.
Factual error: None of the security police are wearing badges, which is part of the required uniform, also they were wearing dark blue shirts, these are only worn at SAC headquarters.
Plot hole: There is absolutely no way that Andy could have got that fighter jet in the sky illegally and got past several nations air space to rescue his father in a foreign country. He would have been immediately intercepted or blown out of the sky when detected.
