An elite team must board a 747 in-flight without being detected to locate and disable a hair-triggered nerve-toxin bomb that could wipe out the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, before executing a split-second attack to overwhelm the terrorists in command of the aircraft and save the passengers.

This team must successfully complete their mission without air-to-ground communications and before the increasingly jittery U.S. military shoots the potentially threatening airliner down.