Plot hole: After the President sabotages the fuel pumps, two of the bad guys go down and manage to repair the damage. They then proceed to go back upstairs and (supposedly) lock the President downstairs... Where he would be free to simply sabotage the fuel pumps again.
Air Force One (1997)
Plot summary
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Glenn Close
The president's plane, Air Force One, is hijacked by Russian terrorists. Harrison Ford plays the president and is an ex-soldier. The Russians take everybody hostage, including the First Lady and her daughter.
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Suggested correction: Harrison Ford tricks the other Russian watching the conference room door and holds him at gun point to escape the cargo hold, you can't miss it.
The point by the poster is that the guys who fixed the sabotage didn't know the president had escaped, so they thought they were locking him in the lower compartment where he could then just sabotage the plane again.
President James Marshall: Peace is not just the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.
Trivia: A little aside - when the terrorists first strike, in amongst the confusion you can hear someone shout "get the football!" The "football" is the name used for the case which contains the nuclear launch codes, but this is never explained. It's not a major thing, but interesting to note that they included it as a little detail. Good to know a childhood spent reading Tom Clancy books wasn't wasted...
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