Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.

A navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew.—Tom Zoerner <[email protected]>

Trans States Airlines flight 17 from Washington, DC to Los Angeles is piloted by straight arrow Dick Barnett, a career pilot who doesn't want the executive desk job offered to him. Many of the seat mates on the plane, some who know each other and some who don't, are facing issues of one sort or another: a doctor and his wife who he hasn't told has a terminal heart condition; an actor worrying about his motivation for an upcoming film role and his tough talking agent; former lovers from fifteen years ago, the male, a bit of a player, who doesn't seem to recognize her in she purposefully having changed her appearance; two lonely, single, middle-aged people who want to talk to each other but can't seem to get up the nerve; and even Barnett and his co-pilot Mike Rule, the two who have a professional and personal history which has affected Rule's career path, negatively in his mind. In addition, Rule has a relationship with head flight attendant Kitty Foster despite the open skeletons in their respective closets. At the same time, a Navy jet, on a routine transport flight from San Diego to Washington, DC, is piloted by Commander Dale Heath, who is still trying to put to rest a mid-air crash from three years ago that killed three in the other Air Force plane. His one and only passenger is an enlisted man, McVey. The two men don't yet know that they have a somewhat parallel personal life in McVey needing to deal with a romantic entanglement, while Heath is in a long declining marriage as his wife Cheryl Heath is unable to deal with the "will he or won't he come home" life of a military wife leading to her infidelity. But with Barnett making a decision to alter his flight path for a smoother ride for the passengers, and with the navy jet facing some control panel malfunctions, the two aircraft, unknown to the other, are in line for a mid-air collision.—Huggo