The boxes in the airplane containing the gold come from the "Bank of Geneva"
and have the image of a bear. The animal of Geneva is the eagle, not the bear,
which belongs to Berne, the Swiss capital.
In the first visit to the airplane, the boxes are correctly depicted as extremely heavy.
But when the robbers pay a second visit, to pick up the real gold in the "foundry"
containers, the boxes are wheeled around too lightly and effortlessly.
The airport ground controller directs the Pan Genève aircraft to taxi to "runway alpha".
Runways are always denoted by numbers - taxiways are denoted by letters.
The New Zealand passport that Joe is handed, which he refers to as "good work",
is the wrong color.
When Joe kills Mickey with a shotgun, a sound effect of a shotgun being cocked is
heard before it is fired. However, the shotgun that Joe uses is not a kind that needs
to be cocked before fired.
The Massachusetts State Police Troopers are seen wearing Glock Pistols and
wielding Mossberg 500 shotguns, neither of which have ever been used by
the Mass State Police.
The Massachusetts State Police Troopers all wear plain leather gunbelts and
accessories. In reality all duty gear for the Mass State Police is patent leather.
The Massachusetts State Trooper who pulls over to inspect the phony "work site",
asks Gene Hackman's "foreman" character if called "K Barracks" to receive a police
detail for the job. There are no "K Barracks" in the Mass State Police. There are seven
field Troops in Massachusetts (A, B, C, D, E, H, and F) which are named by letter.
Barracks are always called by a letter and number combination i.e. H-4 is the Boston
Lower Basin Barracks. If the location is supposed to be close to Logan Airport the
appropriate Troop letter to refer to would have been F, and the Trooper would have
referred to it as "F Troop", not "F Barracks".
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