Low Heights

Low Heights (in Persian: ارتفاع پست, transliteration: Ertefa'e Past) is a 2002 Iranian thriller film directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia and starring Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Leila Hatami, Amir Aghaei, Reza Shafiee Jam, and Gohar Kheirandish.

Once the plane has taken off and reached cruising altitude, Ghasem takes out a gun, disarms the only flight marshal, threatens the pilot and requires a change of destination to Dubai.

While Ghasem is distracted by internal altercations, a second security guard, who till then had been taken for a passenger, leaps at the hijacker and snatches his gun.

[2] The story is partly based on a true event which happened on December 13, 2000, when three members of an extended family of 23 tried to hijack a plane during an Iranian domestic flight.

The initial verdicts of death penalty and life imprisonment for the main culprits were later commuted to lengthy prison sentences.