A woman is essentially kidnapped on a red eye flight by a man threatening to kill her father unless she, in turn, helps him kill a politician.

Parody of airplane disaster films in which a former pilot gets his nerve back when he has to land a plane on which everyone has food poisoning. In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the...