Headscratchers / Resident Evil: Afterlife

Low Fuel

• In Afterlife, the plane Alice is flying is so low on fuel she barely even makes it to the roof of the prison. All the other characters see the engine sputtering and the plane barely maintaining altitude. Yet the second she lands, they are all demanding that she fly them away, and when the producer steals the plane, it somehow flies away with no problem. What?
  • Sounds like a Plot Hole to me.
    • For starters, they were assuming she was from Arcadia when they saw her on the roof, so they naturally assumed she could get them there somehow. As for why it flies perfectly later, she probably had spare fuel with her if she was expecting to fly a lot, and the plane almost crashed anyway (and did crash on the boat latter). The problem wasn't with the plane flying, it was that landing on the rooftop was kinda impractical.
    • Here's the scene itself. The plane is clearly low on gas, you can hear the engine sputtering and a flashing red light of doom which could only be the fuel light in context. Even if you assume that the drums are full of gasoline (Why would they be? And why would they be up there?), and assume it was of a type to run that engine (Ascended Fanon), the landing should have wrecked the plane. She smashed through a concrete wall, the prop blades should have smashed themselves to bits.
    • Well she could have had spare fuel in the storage compartments, it would be very stupid to go flying around the world without the foresight to keep extra fuel around (especially since she was in a makeshift airfield just before then, with all those planes' fuel just going to waste). So that covers the fuel aspect. For the rest of it.....duct tape? And we even see the plane doesn't survive its second flight, crashing on Arcadia. So to answer the original troper's argument; the survivors thought she was from Arcadia when she arrived and assumed she could arrange transport somehow, and the plane only just barely made it to Arcadia anyway.
    • Also, since when did people who are desperate to avoid a gruesome, horrifying death care much for logic? Especially when hope, no matter how irrational, presents itself? It's like a drowning person grabbing someone trying to pull them out of the water, causing the would-be lifeguard and the original victim to drown.
    • So if they did brought those invisible fuel tanks (seeing how they are never shown carrying any fuel)then why the hell did they wait until the plane nearly crashes(due to lack of fuel) before they decide refill it? are they idiots? That fuel would be useless if their plane crashes, that and they'll most likely die. Also it's stupid to think a person can fix a damage plane engine with duct tape.
    • We never see Alice or Claire eat in the plane, that doesn't mean that they didn't have any food (and considering the distance between Alaska and California there is no way they didn't have at least something to eat), so the same goes for spare fuel (which you would keep in the cockpit with you rather than outside where it could get knocked off. And the plane's engine was never damaged (as it was a half wall that came up to the survivors waist, which would have been just below where the blades would reach down to). If we're talking about how the blades should have been broken, technically they should have been broken when it started chopping up zombies but we have a whole trope about how that's an acceptable break from reality. It should also be pointed out that the distance by plane between the prison and Arcadia is only a few minutes and it still crashed, which is illustrating that all Alice pulled off was a quick fix that would have only suceeded in getting someone away from the prison and to the ship.