A rogue airline operator is about to go bankrupt. In order to get money , he plans to crash the next flight of one of his rickety propeller planes. He sabotages the oil pipeline and hires the rugged, drunken bush pilot Butch Donovan.

A rogue airline operator is about to go bankrupt. In order to get much-needed money through crash insurance, he plans to crash the next flight of one of his rickety propeller planes. He sabotages the oil pipeline and hires the rugged, drunken bush pilot Butch Donovan.