When there is time for only one more transfer, Gibbs reveals himself as the mole, killing Caldwell and the parajumper. Korshunov requests the release of General Radek, with the stipulation that a hostage will be executed every half hour until his demands are met. Plot – US President James Marshall is preparing to return home together with his wife and daughter aboard Air Force One. Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. He is a Secret Service agent and a Radek agent. Air Force One is a 1997 American film starring Harrison Ford as James Marshall, the President of the United States, who personally steps in to thwart a hijacking of Air Force One instead of leaving the plane.. He then took a smoke grenade from the armory and pulled the tab after he opened it, alerting Egor Korshunov … Air Force One crashes into the Caspian Sea, killing Gibbs. With Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Air Force One is a 1997 political action thriller directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close. The cast includes Glenn Close as Vice President Kathryn Bennett, Wendy Crewson as First Lady Grace Marshall, Liesel Matthews as Alice Marshall, Gary Oldman as Ivan Korshunov … Air Force One Edit. Bennett is urged by Defense Secretary Walter Dean (Dean Stockwell) to declare the President incapable under the 25th amendment, so as to override Radek's release, but she refuses. The HC-130 is subsequently renamed "Air Force One" as they fly back to friendly space. „Mit Air Force One hat sich Wolfgang Petersen den Hollywood-Konventionen nicht angepaßt, sondern untergeordnet. The HC-130 airmen reel Marshall in, who is safely reunited with his family. He is the one responsible for letting Egor Korshunov and his band of Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One. The six members of the Russian news crew were murdered by Korshunov and his men before the main events of the movie. He has just closed a press conference in Moscow, in which he told Russian diplomats that he will no longer tolerate human rights violations like those perpetrated by General Radek - head of one of the post-Soviet states who has just been arrested. It is unknown how many men were killed when the fuel tanker exploded. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by ... General Alexander Radek (as Jurgen Prochnow) Donna Bullock ... Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell ... (as Lt. Col. Bruce Gillman - Director of the U.S. Air Force Public Affairs-Western Region) Barry Greene ... special thanks: Xerox Corp.

The 17 guards of General Ivan Radek were killed by a joint Russian/American Special Forces troops before the main event of this movie.

Agent Gibbs (also simply known as Gibbs) is the secondary antagonist of the 1997 film Air Force One. Reasons include, but are not limited to: they were last seen in extremely life-threatening situations and whether they survived was unspecified or they died off-camera. Marshall races back to lift his order, and Radek is subsequently killed when he attempts to escape. Marshall is raced to an escape pod in the cargo hold while pursued by Korshunov's men but they are too late to capture him as the pod is ejected. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board. Marshall is able to evade most of the missile launches, while one F-15 pilot sacrifices himself to intercept a missile; the resulting explosion damages the plane's tail, and they start to lose altitude. While Korushunov and his men celebrate the news of Radek's release, Marshall breaks his bonds, kills Korshunov's last two henchmen, before strangling and throwing Korshunov off the plane when he tries to escape himself.

Marshall manages to kill some of Korshunov's men and then uses a satellite phone to make contact with his Vice President Kathryn Bennett (With the President and his family under his control, Korshunov forces Marshall to contact Russian President Petrov and arrange for Radek's release. Marshall and Caldwell direct the plane back to friendly airspace, accompanied by the F-15s, only to be quickly tailed by a second batch of Radek loyalists piloting MiG-29s.

American and Russian Special Forces capture General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), the dictator of a rogue terrorist regime in Kazakhstan that possessed stolen Soviet nuclear weapons, threatening to start a new Cold War. Instead, Korshunov storms the cockpit and prevents the plane from making an emergency landing at Ramstein Air Force Base in Unknown to Korshunov, Marshall, a Medal of Honor recipient, has remained hidden in the cargo hold instead of using the pod, and begins to observe the loyalists using his military training.