Corrected entry: United Airlines aircraft can be seen in the 2010 livery at LaGuardia in the film, set in 2009. Also, United Airlines did not have any 737 NGs in 2009.
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3rd May 2017
Sully (2016)
14th Dec 2014
Flight (2012)
Factual error: During the emergency, Whip instructs Ken to dump fuel, and fuel is seen spraying out of the nozzle on the wing. MD-80 family aircraft are not equipped with fuel dump capabilities.
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Suggested correction: The aircraft is a fictional Jackson Ridgefield JR-88 according to a slide shown during the NTSB hearing scene. This can also explain why it has winglets, another feature McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft do not have.
8th Dec 2003
Home Alone (1990)
Revealing mistake: In the scene where John Candy and Catherine O'Hara are in the van and John Candy plays the clarinet, he never changes the positions of his fingers, but he plays a different note.
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Suggested correction: He does move his fingers while playing his clarinet.
21st Jun 2017
Home Alone (1990)
Factual error: Kate flies American Airlines to Scranton, but that airline did not serve Scranton in 1990. Also, a DC-10 is too big to be serviced at Scranton.
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Suggested correction: Air Force One, which is quite a bit larger than a DC-10, has landed at Scranton in the past (https://wnep.com/2013/08/22/air-force-one-lands-in-scranton/). Just because DC-10s don't generally land there doesn't mean they can't.
They are much more likely to make an exception for Air Force One than the are for a single family unless it was for something wrong with the flight or an emergency on the flight, not for a connecting flight to Chicago or a chance at a connecting flight.
The idea is that DC-10s can land there for whatever reason.
Kate landed at Dallas first, then flew to Scranton. This is revealed in Kate's rant at the ticket agent.
Air Force One would park at GA parking, not at the terminal. The DC-10 that lands would have very likely parked at a gate for only 737s and smaller.
1st Sep 2015
The Outsiders (1983)
Corrected entry: The locomotive in Ponyboy's dream of his parents' death in 1965 is a Burlington Northern C30-7. Burlington Northern did not begin operations until 1970 and the C30-7 was not built until 1967. In the same scene, the locomotive's stripes and cab numbers are mirrored.
Correction: The locomotive is a GP30 built in 1962.
8th Mar 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: On the family tombstones, Maude's tombstone reads 'Mod Flanders'.
Correction: The tombstones say "Maude, Rod, Todd, and Ned". It doesn't say Mod on any tombstones.
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Correction: United has had 737s since the 1990s.
I meant the 737 NG.
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