Executive Decision (1996) on Netflix
R19962h 13mActionAdventureThriller
Terrorists seize an airliner bound for Washington and demand their jailed leader's release. Intelligence analyst David Grant suspects another purpose, and a team plans a midair boarding.
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Oceanic Airlines Flight 343 leaves Athens for Washington, D.C., with over 400 passengers aboard. Among them is Nagi Hassan, who serves the imprisoned terrorist leader El Sayed Jaffa. Hassan's group seizes the 747 and demands Jaffa's release. Dr. David Grant, an army intelligence consultant, tells a Pentagon meeting that he believes the hijacking is a front for another plan. The Pentagon approves a midair boarding of the airliner by Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis and his special operations team, joined by Grant and the engineer Dennis Cahill.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Executive Decision (1996)
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Steven Seagal said he took the unusual supporting role of Austin Travis for a salary of about a million dollars per day of shooting, and felt satisfied knowing his character's sudden death partway through would shock audiences who expected him to be the star.- For the airliner scenes, effects house Grant McCune Design built multiple scale models of the 747, including a 1/12 scale nose section for the stealth-docking sequence, plus two 1/6 scale models of the fictional Remora aircraft, one with a motion-controlled snorkel and articulated hatch.
- The real F-14 Tomcats used in the film came from the VF-84 Jolly Rogers squadron, and Executive Decision turned out to be that squadron's last Hollywood appearance before it was disestablished.
- The studio edited the European theatrical version of Executive Decision to remove references to Islam, and that altered cut, not the original US version, ended up being used worldwide as the source master for the Blu-ray release.
