Osoby z velmi odlišných prostředí se ocitnou pohromadě, když se letadlo, kterým cestují, zřítí do Tichého oceánu. Když se letadlo zastaví nebezpečně blízko okraje rokle a přeživší cestující a posádka jsou uvězněni ve vzduchové kapse, nastane noční můra, boj o přežití, kdy dochází zásoby vzduchu a nebezpečí se plíží ze všech stran.
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories? The director would use this subject for the feature film Rescue Dawn (2007).
Příběh ukrajinské rodiny žijící na rusko-ukrajinské hranici na začátku války. Irka odmítá opustit svůj dům, i když je vesnice obsazena ozbrojenými silami. Krátce poté se ocitnou v centru mezinárodní letecké katastrofy, která se odehraje 17. července 2014.
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian air space. All 176 people on board were killed, many of them Iranian Canadians. For weeks Iranian authorities vociferously denied responsibility, but foreign governments and agencies were certain the plane was shot down by Iranian military, a fact Iran’s government eventually admitted. There were no answers as to why the plane was fired on or even why it was allowed to take off, since hostilities had broken out in the region in preceding days.
Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.