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Comparisons with ''[[Air Force One (Film)|Air Force One]]'' are inevitable, but although that film is better known, this one actually predates it by [[Dueling Movies|one year]].
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* [[Advertised Extra]] : Travis.
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* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Played with.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Travis closing the external 747 hatch right before the Remora conduit integrity fails}}.
* [[Hey
** And [[Babylon Five|G'Kar]] as his superior (a case of [[Hey
* [[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.
* [[Non
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Captain Rat, who kills Hassan in the end.
* [[Operation Game of Doom]]: The bomb onboard the plane had a core that would explode if anyone touched the laser security grid around it.
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