电影Kate Parks has spent th e past year o n tour promot ing her book, an in-de pth look at the attempt ed cover up of her husband &#39 ;s death in a plane cra sh. Now all she wants is to return hom e to her dau ghter, 15-year -old Sama ntha. But when a po werful so lar flar e strik es her fli ght home, kill ing the pilot, knocking ou t the co-pil ot and fryi ng all the el ectronic syst ems on the plane , it looks li ke she may not get ther e. As panic s ets in among the pass engers, Kate work s with flig ht attendant Jake to man age the growing chaos a nd tension on the plane a s she tries t o keep 30, 000 tons of st eel hurtli ng through t he air at 500 mil es per hou r. Flyin g blind, Kate trie s to find a way t o communicate w ith air traff ic contro l - one w ay or another , this plane i s comin g down. W ith the passenge rs&#39 ; lives on the line, Kate will have to fi nd a way to la nd safel y... or neve r see h er daught er again.！