赛斯上校及其同伙因对平民展开报复行动被送到军事法庭审判,他为了避开终生监禁的刑期,而与皮斯卡法官达成认罪协议,但皮斯卡出尔反尔,赛斯相当生气在逃狱后挟持了皮斯卡所搭乘的客机,打算将皮斯卡携带的间谍资料公诸于世,让皮斯卡身败名裂.. 军方派出救援队却宣告失败,救援队唯一的生还者麦特跟空服员凯丽携手合作,一起制服了劫机犯,凯丽在机场人员的指导下顺利让飞机安全降落。When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea agreement wherein all the blame is on him and his men would be discharged and receive any benefits they're entitled. But the General presiding over his trial chooses not to agree to the agreement and throws the book at the Colonel and has his men dishonorably discharged thus eliminating all their benefits. When the Colonel is being transported, his men bust him out. Sometime later the General has been appointed to an important government position he boards a plane to go on his latest assignment. The Colonel and his men are also on the plane. They takeover the plane. When the tower learns of the deviation a government man arrives and upon learning of the Colonel's presence on the plane sends a team to get on board the plane while in flight. When ...