Air Force One Movie Details
Air Force One taglines:Harrison Ford is the President of the United States.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 out of 58,638 votes |
“Air Force One” 1997 by Wolfgang Petersen – Movie Goofs
“Air Force One” Plot Summary
Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he (an ex-soldier) works from hiding to defeat them.
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“Air Force One” Goofs List
- Factual errors: Members of the Soviet/Russian Army are prohibited to have a beard by military regulations.
- Factual errors: Members of the Russian Army only salute with a hand when wearing hats.
- Factual errors: The in-flight refueling hardware on the real Air Force One makes a bulge visible below the cockpit window. The Boeing 747 used in the film lacks this bulge. There are numerous other differences between the plane depicted in the movie and the real Air Force One. See also the trivia entry.
- Continuity: Disappearing/reappearing bullet holes in the hostage room.
- Continuity: When President Marshall fights with the terrorist in the room with the football game on TV, the stool is lying down, then it is standing up, then it is lying down again.
- Continuity: Papers in President Marshall’s hand in the conference room.
- Factual errors: Jumping out of a plane at 200 knots and immediately opening a parachute of the kind in the movie is probably going to break the sail, yet only clean openings are shown.
- Revealing mistakes: When Marshall and Korshunov are fighting, Korshunov presses Marshall’s face against a panel of buttons which are obviously fake.
- Errors in geography: The F-15s launched from Ramstein, Germany have “EG” tail markings, which means they are from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Aircraft assigned to Ramstein have tail markings “RS.” Also, Ramstein does not have fighter aircraft. The nearest US fighter bases in Europe are in Spangdahlem, Germany; Aviano, Italy; or Incirlik, Turkey.
- Continuity: In the opening sequence, the dot from a laser sight rests on the back of the sentry’s head, and the descending shooter is above the sentry, yet, when the shot comes, the explosion is neither back out of the rear of the head, nor out the front of the head, but rather straight up.
- Continuity: Jurgen Prochnow plays General Ivan Radek, yet he is credited as “General Alexander Radek”.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Col. Carlton is telling Marshal how bad the damage is, his mouth under the mask is still moving after he has finished speaking.
- Revealing mistakes: The same sound effect is used twice within about 10 seconds of each other. As the plane is first landing at Ramstein, there is a quick shot of the passengers falling all over the conference room, and you can hear a mans voice saying “Ahhh… Geez!” A few seconds later, as the plane is heading at the control tower and before the wing slices the tree, the exact same voice is heard saying the exact same thing, but this time it is supposed to be coming from the control tower.
- Continuity: The handguard of the H&K MP5A3 that the president has, changes from the old slim type to the new wide type after the scene when the terrorists are shooting through the toilet doors.
- Continuity: When the terrorist fires at the toilets, the bullet spray on the back wall of the second toilet (that he opens) is different from the spray on the door.
- Factual errors: As the aircraft swerves about the aerodrome and goes to take-off again the terrorists do nothing about the flaps (set at 40 degrees for landing). The increased drag caused by the flaps at this setting wouldn’t allow the aircraft to take off at all, let alone take off in such a short distance.
- Factual errors: When Air Force One is told to change the heading to take it out of Kazakhstan, they are told to turn the dial counterclockwise from 110 to 290, through 360. This would turn the aircraft left (as in the film), but the display takes it through 200, which would turn the aircraft right.
- Factual errors: During the refueling scene when AF1 breaks away fuel is seen spraying out of the boom of the KC-10. The fuel ignites and the flame travels up the boom and blows up the KC-10. Onboard the KC-10 there is a Boom Operator who monitors and has full control of the fuel that the tanker is receiving or giving at all times and also flies the boom. The Boom Operator would have raised the boom as soon as AF1 broke away and cut off the fuel supply long before the fuel could ignite.
- Revealing mistakes: When the President is hanging on the rope behind the MC-130, the aircraft’s wing is visible through the President.
- Continuity: When President Marshall tries to enter the conference room with the keys he got from one of the terrorists, he gets shot and there are bullet holes on the door. But somehow these bullet holes are missing in the next conference room scene when Ivan comes to threaten and shoot the National Security Adviser.
- Continuity: When they are in the war room talking waiting on the news that the President wasn’t in the war room, the camera is panning to the left. Before the camera passed by the Defense Secretary there is a general talking to someone in the background as the camera passed to the left of the Defense Secretary the stand in that was talking to the general mysteriously disappears. They apparently stopped filming during that time and forgot to put the stand in back in place.
- Continuity: When the hijackers are trying to get into the cockpit, Ivan puts C4 explosive on the keypad, then shoots at it and misses. He then puts C4 on the (now cleaned-off) keypad again, shoots at it, and successfully blows the door. The first glob of C4 disappeared. And, why show Ivan failing to blow the door? Why not just show him successfully blowing the door?
- Factual errors: When the President opens the panel to short the wires to dump fuel, the wires are all different colors. All aircraft use white wires with printed numbers and letters to identify the circuit.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: None of the planes used as the real Air Force One have an escape pod. President Bill Clinton is said to have remarked on this detail half-jokingly after seeing the film at a White House screening. However, this obviously was a case of artistic license since the pod was used by the filmmakers to make a key plot twist.
- Factual errors: C4 cannot be detonated by shooting it, as it is a relatively stable explosive. The terrorists would have had to use detonating cords or a blasting cap in order to blow open the cockpit door.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the MIG pilots makes a sound of surprise just before a missile hits the plane yet they would have been warned by their instrument systems that a lock-on had occurred and that missiles were on their way.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): President Marshall says in Russian: “He’s dead, help,” to fool one of Russian hijackers. His accent is terrible and would never fool a Russian speaker.
- Errors in geography: The base at which the pilots attempt to land after the hijacking is identified as “Ramstein Air Force Base”. The actual name is “Ramstein Air Base”; “Air Force Base” is only used for installations in the United States.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Air Force One pilot on the ground says that there is no automatic landing capability on the aircraft. All 747s have the capability to land on auto pilot. Later model 747s and every 757, 767 and 777 also has semi-auto takeoff.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Both the Russian and the American presidents speak Polish instead of Russian as do some of the Russian kidnappers.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Asking a person with no parachute experience to jump in these conditions might be more dangerous than staying on the plane. If the canopy does not rip apart (as someone already noted), they are jumping at night with only moonlight into unfamiliar terrain that might have wires, rocks, trees, water, fences, as well as the ground itself that they do not know how to land on even in bright sunshine.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bullets fired by the President rip through the Kevlar vests with ease, because they are firing armor-piercing rounds.
- Continuity: During the attempted landing at Ramstein, the wing flaps are either deployed or retracted between scenes.
- Continuity: SPOILER: When Agent Gibbs shoots Major Caldwell, blood splashes on Gibbs’s face and forehead. In the next shot when he struggles with the President, there is blood only on his right cheek and his forehead is clean.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: Lip synching doesn’t match when the Air Force “PJ” (pararescue jumper in the back of the C-130) talks into his helmet microphone, saying “Liberty 24 is changing call signs, Liberty 24 is now Air Force One.”
- Factual errors: SPOILER: By design, the external doors on mod
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