Director Travis Fine had previously worked with Melissa Leo (as a fellow actor) on the series, The Young Riders.
Director Travis Fine previously worked with Don Franklin and Brett Cullen as an actor on the series, The Young Riders.
The book Omar is reading on the bus (at around 27 mins) is 'Introduction to Electrical Engineering Theory'.
The operations manager of the airport where Montine's and Omar's flight is forced to land says (at around 1h 11 mins) "This is Paul Ehrlich with Ops in Longview", thus identifying the airport as 126 miles east of Dallas, Texas.