An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.
Robert Urich
as Capt. Glen (Lucky) Singer
Annette O'Toole
as Connie Phipps
John de Lancie
as Capt. George W. Bouchard
Jim Byrnes
as Duke Houston
Ken Pogue
as Ian Pryce
Blu Mankuma
as Jack Eberly
Tom McBeath
as Pilot of Private Plane N9478C
Kevin McNulty
as Henry Gibbons
Stephen E. Miller
as Lt. Col. Frank O'Hearn
Gwynyth Walsh
as Patty
Lorraine Landry
as Jill Zimmer
Carrie Cain-Sparks
as Crystal Dupree