FBI hostage rescue specialist Jack Bender's unique skills are challenged when he finds himself aboard a domestic flight hijacked by a radical organization called the People's Separatist Movement. On the ground, Jack's ex-wife, an FAA employee, discovers that the terrorists motives are tied to visions of nuclear grandeur, and there's only way to stop them; by blowing the airliner out of the sky.

FBI hostage rescue specialist Jack Bender's unique skills are challenged when he finds himself aboard a domestic flight hijacked by a radical organization called the People's Separatist Movement. On the ground, Jack's ex-wife, an FAA employee, discovers that the terrorists motives are tied to visions of nuclear grandeur, and there's only way to stop them; by blowing the airliner out of the sky.