Goofs for
Pushing Tin (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors in geography: 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".
  
  
• Errors in geography: 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: 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).
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: 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.
  
  
• Errors in geography: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: The Italian restaurant is called Enzo's but during the parking lot confrontation between Mary and Nick he says "Sarento's".
  
  
• Factual errors: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  

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