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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: [[Played With]]: The heroes take turns crawling around in the crawlspace above the passenger cabin so they can spy on the bad guys. They spend most of the rest of the movie hiding in the cargo bay.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Grant.

* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Played with.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Travis closing the external 747 hatch right before the Remora conduit integrity fails}}.

** And [[Babylon 5|G'Kar]] as his superior (a case of [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]).

* [[Homage]]: The scene involving the F-14 interception was the last film appearance of [[Badass Crew|Squadron VF-84, ''The Jolly Rogers'']], before being decommissioned.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: {{spoiler|"Just fly the plane."}}

* [[Mundane Solution]]: The bomb is "defused" not with all the high-tech gear the soldiers brought on board, but rather by the simple expedient of thrusting a [[Rock Beats Laser|plastic swizzle-stick between two electrical contacts]], thus preventing the detonator from firing.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Captain Rat, who kills Hassan in the end.

* [[Post Modernism]]: For most of us a movie begins when we see the trailer or the poster; Steven Seagal's character, Travis, features prominently in these places. {{spoiler|So we figure he's the guy who will save the day and are doubly shocked when he dies.}} Utterly brilliant.

* [[Retirony]]: The flight attendant gushing about her recent wedding is the first to die when the hijackers take over the plane.

* [[Right Man in the Wrong Place]]: Dr. Grant

* [[Suicide Attack]]: Hassan's original intention.

 

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[[Category:Dreamworks Animation]]

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]