Terror flies at 30,000 feet in this tense action thriller. Jeremy Barrett (Michael Harris) is a brilliant but unbalanced criminal genius who, while being transported to a penal facility aboard a commercial airliner, breaks free and takes control of the jet, holding the passengers hostage, blowing a hole in the cockpit, and threatening to crash the plane into a heavily populated area of a major city if his demands aren't met. Barrett may have met his match, however, in Nick Halton (James Russo), a former Navy SEAL and current FBI agent who is willing to take the potentially deadly assignment of being dropped by helicopter into the runaway jet to disarm Barrett and bring the jet safely to the ground. Sonic Impact also features Ice-T, Mel Harris, and Brittany Daniel. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Shana Landsburg - Casting, Rodney McDonald - Director, Randy Carter - Editor, Alan B. Bursteen - Executive Producer, Timothy J. Warenz - Line Producer, David Wurst - Composer (Music Score), Eric Wurst - Composer (Music Score), Steve Ralph - Production Designer, Thomas L. Callaway - Cinematographer, Noble Henry - Producer, Alison Semenza - Producer, Sean McGinly - Screenwriter
When a deranged criminal is caught, he is then being transported by plane, along with some other criminals. Through a stroke of luck he is able to subdue the Federal agents assigned to bring him, free the other criminals, and take over the plane. He then threatens to crash the plane into a populated area unless his demands are met. The FBI agent who captured him then decides to get on the plane while in flight to do something. He does but things don't go as planned, and the criminal continues his plan to crash the plane unless the agent can do something, the military is going to shoot the plane down.