Pushing Tin

During the bomb threat, Ross phones Sparta Airlines' base operations in Greensboro, South Carolina.

There is no Greensboro in South Carolina - Greensboro is in North Carolina.

However, there is a Greenville in South Carolina, which shares its airport with Spartanburg, South Carolina, which may be origin of the name "Sparta Airlines".

While Nick and Connie are driving to lunch, they drive past a building with a VIA (VIA Rail Canada, yellow letters on blue background) logo on it.

VIA does not own any property in New York or New Jersey.

The driving scene was shot in Canada.

Several three-letter airline codes appearing on the radar scopes are wrong, such as DTA for Delta (should be DAL), JTL for Continental Express (should be BTA), ALG for Allegheny (should be ALO).

At the beginning of the movie, when Ed is believed to "go down the pipes", his scope shows two Continental Airlines flights with the same number (COA1250), supposedly representing two different planes.

In the scene with the kids visiting the TRACON where they all work, a plane departs that doesn't call the controller and this ends up causing a near collision.

The airport image on the radar scope is of Newark Liberty International (you can tell by the two lines running essentially North/South that represent the two parallel N/S runways 4L/22R and 4R/22L).

However, when the scene changes to the actual plane on an actual runway departing North, you see it pass over simply the number "4" and then immediately over water.

This can only be LaGuardia Airport as it is the only airport of the three in New York (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark) that has only one N/S runway (4/22 - both Newark and Kennedy have 4L/22R and 4R/22L and are marked with the "R" and "L" on them) and has water immediately to the north of it.

In the scene where Russell works for the first time he gives some headings which are totally incorrect compared to the radar picture.

He sends Continental on heading 060 which seconds later you see he is not flying.

He also gives Delta "A steep left turn heading 090" when in fact Delta is already flying on heading 090 or maybe on heading 100 but still wouldn't be a steep turn at all.

When Nick dives into the snow during the bomb threat, he is shown rolling over as he lands on his back.

When he is home watching himself on TV, however, the dive shown does not match the one he did earlier, as he is shown landing on his stomach.

Several scenes show characters in the movie standing beneath landing jet airliners and being tumbled by the "turbulence.

" In fact, the downwash from the wings of a jet airliner during landing will not send a person tumbling, and won't have much effect at all other than to muss up the hair a bit.

The jet blast from an airliner taking off is dangerous and can send people and vehicles behind it tumbling, but there is no particular danger beneath a landing aircraft.

During the bomb scare, the police in the movie are supposed to be Nassau County Police.

However, the lights on the police cars are blue and red.

No Nassau County police car at the time of the movie (1999) had blue lights on it.

Supermarkets in New York are not allowed to sell 'hard liquor', so Mary Bell should not have had three bottles of vodka in her shopping trolley.

When Russell Bell stands on the runway to feel the effect of wing tip vortices from a landing 747-400, he stands directly under the jet as it flies over head.

Wing tip vortices roll off the tips of wings in a swirling motion and travel outward and downward.

In reality, one would need to be positioned several feet outboard of the wing tips to feel the effect; farther if the airplane were higher.

The police in the movie during the bomb scare are supposed to be Nassau County Police, but the lights on there cars in the movie are blue and red, no Nassau county police car at the time of the movie had blue lights on it, and they still don't have any forward facing blue lights.

Good movie , with some good performance and good quality production.although there are some stupid thing which doesn't fit in movie plot.

A fine accolade for one's resume. I push tin !

There is no point nor enjoyment in watching this movie. Huge waste of time and boring.

There is no point nor enjoyment in watching this movie. Huge waste of time and boring.

If the point of the movie is to depict jerks it perfectly works. I mean, the air traffic controllers of Pushing tin are, like, in their 30s or 40s and are still comparing who's got the longer penis (the basketball challenge, the other one with the matches...

What starts out as peak into the little know world of Air Traffic Control and its characters turns into a low rent rom com. This is a movie of two halves.

It felt like 8 hours and honestly I feel really stupid that I didn't walk out of the theater. I wish I could have that 2 hours of my life back as this has to be the worst major motion picture ever made.

Actually, the movie is about a cheating husband and this isn't the kind of movie that appeals to me. Those scum are already impossible to support in real life so it's wasted time to make them "hero" of fiction.