The Boeing 707 aircraft in the film, with the registration N778PA was destroyed by fire while in storage in Davis-Monathan Air Base in 1992.
Father O'Malley:
Greater love than no man hath he gives up his life for a friend. Heavenly father, we humbly ask you that you cherish this most loving soul in the palm of your hand for all eternity. In the name of the father, of the son and of the holy ghost.
After the terrorists fatally shoots one of the three U.S. Navy men who was on board the hijacked plane, he falls from the height of the hatch to the tarmac. As his body was lying on the tarmac, and being examined, he is presumed dead. However, if you look at his lower abdomen, you can see it rise, in response to contraction of his diaphragm muscle (breathing).
The initial Region-1 DVD was mistakenly released without the Arab language subtitles and location captions. However, this problem was reported and resolved. Most current Region 1 DVD's on the shelf now include the original subtitles and captions as originally intended.
English, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek
$12,000,000 (estimated)
$5,959,505 17 February 1986
$17,768,900
$17,768,900