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# Continuity: The aircraft is supposedly a Boeing 747 (3-4-3 seating pattern in economy) but the cabin is obviously from a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, with its 2-5-2 seating pattern in economy and its oxygen masks coming out of seat back compartments.

# Factual errors: Flight Management System computers on commercial aircraft don't run under Microsoft Windows 95.

# Factual errors: The aircraft is supposed to fly a six-hour trip from New York to London, England, and would have to contain approximately two extra hours worth of fuel for contingency, yet it flies for more than 13 hours before running out of fuel. An aircraft cannot take off with that much excess fuel, otherwise it would be way above the maximum for a safe landing at the destination or alternate airport.

# Continuity: The Boeing 747 changes color schemes several times throughout the movie, notably a white fuselage while on the ground, aqua-and-blue lines on take-off and in the air, red-and-blue lines on landing.

# Revealing mistakes: Altimeters on aircraft have the dial ranging from 0 to 9, indicating thousands of feet of altitude, and not 0 to 11. The flight deck's "altimeter" in the movie is actually a novelty clock designed to look like an altimeter.