The A-Team

Factual error: They are present at Frankfurt, Germany. But with a closer look you see a cathedral at the right side. This cathedral and the central station are located in Cologne, Germany - they are about 220 km apart. (01:04:15)

zehner87

Factual error: When the team's supposedly in Frankfurt, Germany, you can see yellow cabs. Cabs in Germany are always colored sort of dirty white/beige.

Factual error: The German police cars show the number "109" as the emergency telephone code, but the German code to call the police is "110" and "112" for the fire brigade / rescue.

Factual error: There is no desert between Frankfurt and the 44 miles distant city of Mannheim.

Factual error: During the Frankfurt scenes, a lot of cars have a license plate starting with "FF"; eg. FF - AB 1234. FF stands for the eastern German "Frankfurt/Oder" (Frankfurt at the Oder River) and NOT for the west German Frankfurt/Main (Frankfurt at the Main River) where the financial district and the large airport is. There is a distance of 470 kilometers (292 miles) between those cities.

Factual error: In the movie, the United States Embassy is in Frankfurt. The embassy is actually in Berlin - any foreign dependency in cities other than a nation's capital is a consulate.

Factual error: The action with the C-130 in the air is supposed to be near Mannheim, Germany but there is nowhere near a landscape with forests and lakes like shown after their "landing" in the tank and during/after the AC-130 attack. Certainly not with large shipping vessels as depicted (guess this is somewhere around Vancouver, BC).

Factual error: When they are getting the passports checked they are supposed to be in Germany. The police uniforms are Norwegian and all the signposts are in Norwegian. (01:28:30)

Factual error: The A-Team's highjacked C-130 is said to have been shot down near Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg County, Germany. Yet, the agents later claim that Murdock drove the tank out of the Wolgastsee, asking a local woman for the way to Berlin. The Wolgastsee is on the island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern County - some 400 to 450 miles away from Mannheim.

Factual error: During their court-martial sentencing they are dishonorably discharged and then sent to prison instead of being discharged after prison. They would still be in the military while serving time at a military prison.

Factual error: After the A-Team lured General Tuco into American airspace, his heli is shot down by a F-22 with a pair of missiles. However, the F-22's bay doors where the weapons are stored for stealth reasons aren't open during launch.

Factual error: The sign in the hospital reads "Hospital San Vicente de Paulo para todos veteranos de Guerra". The correct spelling is "San Vicente de Paul" and "todos los veteranos".

Sacha

Factual error: The Swiss license plate on the Mercedes is wrong, it says "ZH 8Q25." The only letters on Swiss license plates however are the two first ones indicating the canton. The real version of this plate would be "ZH 8025"

Tanngrisnir

Continuity mistake: Just before they bust Murdock out of the 2nd insane asylum, Howie's glasses are on or off depending on the angle. [Extended version only]. (01:04:00)

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Trivia: Just before Hannibal, Face and BA break Murdoch out of the hospital by driving the hummer through the wall, watch the credits rolling on the screen of the movie they are watching. Reginald Barclay is the character that Dwight Schultz (the original Murdoch) played on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 2nd name ends with "StarBuck", the character played by Dirk Benedict (the original Face man) on Battlestar Galactica. We also see "Thomas", with the surname obscured - likely "Thomas Banachek", a character played by George Peppard, the original Hannibal.

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Question: Can a helicopter do barrel rolls and loop-de-loops like Murdock is doing after the A-team leaves the hospital and are being chased to the US border by Tuco?

Answer: They can, but only if they have a set of modified rotor blades to be able to do it. The Apache for one is able to do it. The Huey in the movie however is unlikely in reality to be able to do it - there would be no need to fit the modified rotors to what is essentially a transporter.

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