0826 the president's plane

One of the movies I just saw again was “Air Force One” from 1997 with Harrison Ford. I listened to the commentary by director Wolfgang Peterson. He wanted authenticity so all the Russians were played by Eastern European actors ... except the guy playing the Russian president. He was an American actor, who had to learn Russian to speak the lines convincingly.

In the beginning sequence, a team of commandoes parachutes onto a rooftop in Kazakhstan. The scene and the surrounding area look real. It is. But the location is in Ohio.