The flight distance from Morocco to South Africa is around 8,000 km, which would take a flight time of some 24 hours at a Douglas DC-3's 333 km/h cruising speed, not taking into account the minimum of four refueling stops because the plane's range is just 2,400 km.
John Simm (Baxter), Philip Glenister (Quinn) & Marc Warren (Rick) also worked together on State of Play (2003) as Cal McCaffrey, DCI William Bell & Dominic Foy respectively.