Random Hearts

Dutch is a Washington, D.C. cop. On his way home from the office, he stops at a store to buy a weather radio for his father-in-law's birthday. A news bulletin comes on the TV in the shop saying that an airliner going from Dulles Airport in DC to Miami has crashed into the Chesapeake Bay. Turns out that Dutch's wife was on the flight.

Problems:
The anchor on the TV in the Washington store is Don Scott, from Channel 13 in Baltimore. A DC store would not be able to received Baltimore stations (God knows, I tried when I was at the University of Maryland) and the cable systems don't carry the Baltimore stations, either.

When we see the scene of the plane crash, the Francis Scott Key bridge is seen prominently in the background. It is part of the Baltimore Beltway, and as such, the plane is in the Potapsco River, not the Cheseapeake Bay. In addition, no plane bound for Miami out of Dulles would go that far north and into Baltimore-Washington International's take-off and landing airspace.

The remains of the passengers are taken to Patuxent Naval Air Station - way the heck at the very south end of the Chesapeake Bay, but why not use Anacostia Naval Air Station, which is in Washington, or, if facilities are a consideration, Dover Air Force Base, considerably closer than Patuxent?

Finally, as Congresswoman Chandler is returning from her weekend retreat with Dutch on the Maryland Eastern Shore, the camera shows us a very dramatic shot of Kay driving across a bridge surrounded by picturesque scenery and a city behind. Unfortunately, our intrepid Congressperson is lost, because we see her on Route 450, crossing the Severn River into Annapolis; why'd she get off Route 50, which would have taken her directly from the Eastern Shore back to Washington? They must obviously have edited out Kay's overwhelming desire to visit the Naval Academy, or get some crabs at Phillip's on the City Dock.