[1] The plot concerns a private Boeing 747 packed with VIPs and priceless art that is hijacked before crashing into the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle, forcing the survivors into a desperate struggle for survival.

Chambers, flying to a small deserted island to offload the art treasures, drops the plane below radar range causing Stevens Flight 23 to "disappear" in the Bermuda Triangle.

Chambers extinguishes the fire, but due to a sudden loss of airspeed, the plane stalls and crashes into the water, floating momentarily before sinking below the surface.

Captain Gallagher and a professional diver, Martin Wallace, enter the main cargo preparing to swim to the surface using air masks.

Stevens, meanwhile, has joined the Cayuga via helicopter while Patroni stays on the mainland to study the aircraft's risks of imploding underwater, which he warns Gallagher about over the phone.

A cargo hold door inside the plane bursts open and seawater swamps the cabin; Chambers and Wallace's widow Karen drown, while Emily’s injured friend Dorothy dies from her injuries.

Stevens reunites with his daughter and tearfully hugs his grandson, while the helicopter carrying Gallagher and Eve lands aboard the Agerholm, where they are both met by the grateful survivors.

[7] Variety wrote, "The story's formula banality is credible most of the time and there's some good actual US Navy search and rescue procedure interjected in the plot.

"[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 2/4 stars and wrote, "The movie's a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long.