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Air Force One is a 1997 American action film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of In the Line of Fire. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy and Paul Guilfoyle.

The film opens when a joint team of Russian Spetznaz and American Delta Force commandos arrest the genocidal dictator of Kazakhstan, General Alexander "Ivan" Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), after killing most of his bodyguards. Three weeks later, U.S. President Marshall (Harrison Ford) makes a speech in Moscow announcing a new offensive against terrorism. Having visited the Red Cross camps and witnessing the brutality and atrocities committed under Radek's regime, Marshall vows to continue the offensive against the terrorists, stating that the U.S will never tolerate any kind of terrorist government.

The President boards Air Force One to return to Washington, however, six Soviet neo-nationalist terrorists supportive of Radek, led by Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman), posing as a Russian news crew, take weapons from the weapons locker and take control of the plane with help from a mole in the Secret Service, Agent Gibbs (Xander Berkeley) killing many passengers. An emergency is declared by the pilot, causing Air Force interceptors to take off from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to intercept and escort Air Force One. Marshall is rushed to an escape pod in the plane's cargo hold, but he refuses to leave his family behind, hiding behind the machinery when the pod is launched, although Korshunov believes that the President has escaped.

After shooting the pilots and disabling the telephone communication lines, Korshunov narrowly averts landing the plane at Ramstein Air Base, diverting it towards Russia and calls Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close), demanding the release of Radek in exchange for the remaining passengers onboard Air Force One, including the wife and daughter of the President, threatening to kill one hostage every half-an-hour until Radek is released. Bennett refuses to cooperate, and discovers that Marshall never entered the escape pod and he could be either dead, held hostage or still aboard the plane.

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