A Washington, D.C.-bound 747 is hijacked by Nagi Hassan (DAVID SUCHET),
the second-in-command of one of the most ruthless and feared terrorist organizations
in the world. It is presumed the 400 Americans aboard will be offered in
trade for the group's leader, imprisoned in England and awaiting extradition
to the United States.
David Grant, PhD. (Kurt Russell), an American intelligence analyst and expert
in international terrorism, shatters these assumptions when he presents
his own chilling assessment of the facts: that Nagi Hassan, operating on
his own secret agenda, has targeted Washington with a cargo of DZ-5 -- the
most lethal nerve toxin in the world.
The President's Crisis Management Team must choose between ignoring Grant's
theory and allowing the 747 to land in Washington, risking the lives of
thousands, or destroying it before it reaches U.S. airspace, sacrificing
400 American passengers.
Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), Special Forces leader
of an elite anti-terrorist unit, offers the only solution. Using an experimental
aircraft designed to transfer bomber crews at high altitude, Travis proposes
to dock with the 747 five miles above the Atlantic and put his team of experts,
including Rat (JOHN LEGUIZAMO), Cappy (JOE MORTON), Louie (B.D. WONG) and
Baker (WHIP HUBLEY), secretly on board.
Two others are asked to join the mission: Grant, for his intelligence expertise,
and Cahill (OLIVER PLATT), the civilian design engineer of the delivery
plane.
During the docking with the 747 the delivery plane is destroyed, leaving
half the team on board the 747, with no communication to the outside world.
As the President's Crisis Team prepares to destroy the 747, assuming all
were lost in the explosion of the delivery plane, the stranded men work
feverishly to dismantle a hair-trigger computerized bomb and take over the
aircraft before it reaches the fail-safe of U.S. airspace. Their only ally
on board is Jean, a brave and resourceful flight attendant (Halle Berry).
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