Senator Stuart Davis, running against the Vice-President, plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage by terrorists.

Their leader, Barry Rogers takes all the passengers hostage including Stuart, and forces him to hand over the disk in order to prevent the war being averted.

In the cockpit, Barry poses as a Balkan terrorist and informs Dulles ATC control that they are armed with a nuclear device and threaten to crash the Concorde into Paris.

Since Shannon is a former mechanic, she repairs the radio and restores contact with air traffic control just in time as F-14 jets intercept the aircraft on orders to shoot it down before it reaches Paris.

The plane runs out of fuel and on instruction via Paris control, Jack manages to glide the Concorde to a successful landing with the aid of emergency breaking nets.

[citation needed] TV guide described the film as "A routine action picture of the bumpy flight variety, fueled by political conspiracy and Brian Bosworth's stoic maschismo.