A grieving father boards a plane, threatening to detonate a bomb unless the man responsible for his daughter's death is found. The film follows the various passengers and their personal storylines as the tense situation unfolds mid-flight.
Sir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.—Dimitri