Flight

Continuity mistake: When Whip goes to Nicole's place, he stops his car past her street. When he sees Nicole he turns into her street, but he couldn't - his car is too far past her street; he should have reversed first before driving into her street, which he did not do.

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Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, in the wide shot there is no cellphone on the night table on the left at Whip's side. In the close-up a cell phone appears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Harling picks Whip up from the hospital, he says he couldn't find any suitcases at Whip's place, so he puts his clothes and stuff in garbage bags, but when Whip arrives at the farm, there are no garbage bags in sight, just a small suitcase and a small plastic bag.

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Suggested correction: The suitcase is probably in Whip's car - no reason why he couldn't have shoved everything in there.

Continuity mistake: When Whip goes to see his ex-wife and son, he parks with a fire hydrant by the front right fender. He takes a drink, gets out of the car, and the fire hydrant has vanished.

Continuity mistake: When we first see Nicole, she has a "bruise" on her left inner elbow, but, later, when she's injecting, the "bruise" has gone.

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Continuity mistake: When the plane has come out of flying upside down, Whip tells Departure that he sees a road and a field and he will try to land there. The field is brown until they crash-land, where it is now green.

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Continuity mistake: When Whip is watching the crash on TV, the (CGI) plane seems big while flying against the church, but when it lands and it's seen in comparison with the people on the field, it is awkwardly small.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Nick tells Kip, her drug dealer, that she hasn't used needles in weeks, she's lying as she has a track mark on her left arm that is definitely not weeks old. When she does inject, that track mark disappears.

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Continuity mistake: When Nicole knocks the box with the syringe and all the drug-stuff, the syringe falls far away from the box, but it appears very close to it in the next shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Whip wakes up in hospital, his right eye is partially bloodshot, but seconds later the blood is gone.

kh1616

Factual error: Whenever the fire extinguisher is activated for a jet engine, that engine becomes inoperable. In the movie, the co-pilot first activates the extinguisher for the left engine, and 30 seconds later, for the right engine. At that point, both engines should be shut down. However, the engines are still operating (and revving up) and Whitaker even asks Margaret to apply full power, which is also audible. (00:23:00)

NoDouty

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Whip: I drank the night before the flight.

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Trivia: Nicole's car bears Georgia license plate CHN 320. This is the same plate number used on the General Lee in "the Dukes of Hazzard".

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Question: Whip is talking to co-pilot Ken Evans in the hospital after he wakes up from his coma. When Ken is talking about Whip's health, he mentions him reeking of gin or something. If Whip smelled that bad of alcohol, why didn't Ken alert security before takeoff?

Answer: Possibly misplaced loyalty to a friend/co-worker and wanting to protect Whip's career. Ken may have believed he himself could handle any flight situation that might arise if Whip was incapable; he may have intended to confront Whip later to demand he get help or else he'd report him.

raywest

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