History Trivia / AirForceOne

* TheRedStapler: Almost. Then US President UsefulNotes/BillClinton allegedly wanted to put an escape pod in the real Air Force One after seeing this movie.
** For those wondering why such a feature isn't onboard the real VC-25s, it's actually pretty simple. Any issue that could result in the destruction of the aircraft would actually happen too quickly for the president to be safely evacuated to such a pod[[note]]An attack by a foreign Air Force for example, or a Surface to Air missile attack. Also Total Hydraulic Failure, accidental explosion, Mid-Air Breakup, Controlled Flight Into Ground, etc[[/note]]. On top of that, even if there was an emergency where there was time to move the President into the pod[[note]] ExplosiveDecompression, Fire on Board, or other malfunction[[/note]], the aircraft itself would be on the ground within a few minutes anyway, and safely evacuated. Also, even if the President was killed, the power would just shift to the Vice President anyway, meaning that the government would still be functional.[[note]]That's right, WeHaveReserves applies to the Commander in Chief, as far as the US Government is concerned.[[/note]]
* WagTheDirector: A positive example from Creator/GlennClose:

* FakeRussian: Petrov, Radek, Korshunov, and Bazylev are all fake Russians. However, the terrorist mooks and Russian extras are played by emigrants from the Soviet Union.
** Bazylev is an interesting case as actor Andrew Divoff is Venezuelan, but is still of Russian ''descent'' through his Russian father.

* CreatorBacklash: Not due to the film itself, but rather to external reasons. After the US invasion of Iraq, Wolfgang Petersen stated "I would not make a movie like ''Air Force One'' now."
* DuelingMovies: Came out within a month of another "[[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a plane]]" movie, ''Film/ConAir''. Weirdly enough, both films were produced by Creator/{{Disney}} through Creator/TouchstonePictures.

* CoolGuns: As stated on the film's [=IMFDb=] page, this appears to be the first film to feature the now-commonplace flattop M4 carbine.

* HeAlsoDid: The film is written by Andrew W. Marlowe, the creator of ''Series/{{Castle}}''.

* OldShame: Not due to the film itself, but rather to external reasons. After the US invasion of Iraq, Wolfgang Petersen stated "I would not make a movie like ''Air Force One'' now."

* DuelingMovies: Came out within a month of another "[[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a plane]]" movie, ''Film/ConAir''.

* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/WendyCrewson, Creator/WilliamHMacy, Paul Guilfoyle, Creator/AndrewDivoff, Creator/XanderBerkeley, Creator/BillSmitrovich, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/JurgenProchnow.

* CoolGuns: As stated on the film's IMFDb page, this appears to be the first film to feature the now-commonplace flattop M4 carbine.

* {{Blooper}}: When [[spoiler:Gibbs]] kills the Secret Service agents guarding the armory, one of them already has blood from a BoomHeadshot splattering the curtain behind him.

* ExecutiveMeddling: See MotiveDecay.

** There was originally going to be an explanation behind why Agent Gibbs [[spoiler:betrayed Marshall]] -- he was a former CIA agent who became disenchanted when the UsefulNotes/ColdWar [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell ended]]. See also MotiveDecay.

** [[spoiler:Melanie Mitchell's]] execution was originally supposed to happen on-camera. Wolfgang Peterson cut the shot as he felt it was "too intense" and instead had the death happen offscreen.

** For those wondering why such a feature isn't onboard the real VC-25s, it's actually pretty simple. Any issue that could result in the destruction of the aircraft would actually happen too quickly for the president to be safely evacuated to such a pod[[note]]An attack by a foreign Air Force for example, or a Surface to Air missile attack. Also Total Hydraulic Failure, accidental explosion, Mid-Air Breakup, Controlled Flight Into Ground, etc[[/note]]. On top of that, even if there was an emergency where there was time to move the President into the pod[[note]] ExplosiveDecompression, Fire on Board, or other malfucntion[[/note]], the aircraft itself would be on the ground within a few minutes anyway, and safely evacuated. Also, even if the President was killed, the power would just shift to the Vice President anyway, meaning that the government would still be functional.[[note]]That's right, WeHaveReserves applies to the Commander in Chief, as far as the US Government is concerned.[[/note]]

* TheOtherMarty: The movie originally had a score by Music/RandyNewman. Yes, ''that'' Randy Newman. (Ultimately it was thrown out with Music/JerryGoldsmith - and Joel [=McNeely=] - having only two weeks to write a new score.)

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The premise of the movie is heavily tied to the geopolitics of the mid to late 90's. Additionally, dialogue makes reference to UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein being the President of Iraq (the only reference to a real-life head of state in the movie, oddly enough), instantly dating it to before the United States' invasion of the country in 2003.

** Music/JerryGoldsmith wanted to work with his son Music/JoelGoldsmith again following their collaboration in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' but another assignment from Music/JoelGoldsmith prevented the father-son duo from happening.