Yeah, well, not surprising, but the aviation bits are all over the place, too. Starting from Higgins calling runway lights landing lights. Nope, landing lights are on the airplane. Then the (Fieseler) Storch is running at »160 miles an hour«. That’s much too fast. The top speed of the Storch is 48 m/s, not the 72 m/s given. We never really learn whether the »MiG« is a MiG 17 or 21. It could be either, and it is sort-of important. The landing speed of a MiG 17 is close to the top speed of the Storch. The MiG 21s is much higher. So, a MiG 17 would have it much easier to follow the Storch.

Then they are told over radio (Why wasn’t he monitoring 121.5 MHz anyway?) to go to »Allersberg«, heading 340°. What? The good news is that Higgins has put Allersberg and Bitterfeld on different sides of the inner German border. The bad news is that he now has two towns on the wrong side. And the real Allersberg is in Bavaria, far away from where everybody is. Also, a heading (or course) of 340 is pretty much north-northwest. There isn’t much GDR left in that direction.

What would have been hilarious and, as i learned recently, realistic, if the MiG pilot would have been blasting away with his cannon and just not scoring any hits. Apparently Soviet pilots at least were quite often lousy shots.