


David Grant, a consultant for US Army Intelligence. Grant is saluted by Baker, Louie, Rat and Cappy for his leadership before being summoned to the Pentagon. With Jean's assistance, Grant successfully lands the airliner and the passengers are safely evacuated. Grant recognizes the area surrounding his training airfield, Frederick Field, and attempts to land the 747 there. Hassan kills the pilots and damages the controls, before being shot and killed by Rat.ĭespite his limited flying experience, Grant assumes control of the 747 and attempts a landing but misses the approach to Dulles International Airport. The bomb is disarmed just in time by Cappy and Cahill as the 747 stabilizes. Demou, however, manages to arm the bomb before dying, and stray bullets from a terrorist's weapon pierce a window causing explosive decompression. Louie assists Grant by fatally shooting Demou and eliminating the remaining terrorists. Grant struggles to wrestle the detonator from Demou's grip while Baker and Rat gun-down several terrorists. The commandos storm the cabin as a firefight ensues. Hassan attempts to shoot Grant, but is himself shot by an on-board air marshal. Grant spots the real sleeper, Demou, and fights him for the detonator. Jean spots a man with an electronic device and informs Grant, who enters the passenger cabin to take the suspected individual by surprise, only to find he is merely a diamond thief.
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Baker uses Morse code via the 747's taillights to signal the fighters that the team made it aboard, requesting an extra ten minutes to neutralize the bomb and retake the 747, despite already crossing into U.S.

Senator Mavros (a passenger) as a warning. Navy F-14 Tomcats to shoot down the 747, prompting Hassan to execute U.S. He also inadvertently reveals that one of the passengers is a sleeper agent and the trigger-man for the bomb. Grant and the others realize Hassan's men are unaware of the bomb and Hassan's true intentions, after he kills one of them for rebuking him. Jaffa, released by U.S officials in an attempt to resolve the situation, calls Hassan from a private jet to tell him he is on his way to Algeria, but Hassan abruptly ends the call. The team locates the bomb and Cappy, despite his injuries, guides Cahill in disarming it until they discover its arming device has an additional, remote-controlled trigger. Grant accidentally reveals who he is to flight attendant Jean, but successfully recruits her to assist their search, despite Hassan's suspicions. They conduct a covert search for the bomb, hoping to neutralize it and storm the cabin. The Remora is destroyed along with the team's communications equipment, leaving the Pentagon unaware of their survival. Travis sacrifices himself by closing the 747's hatch before it decompresses. Severe turbulence strains the docking tunnel. Grant, Cahill, and team members Cappy, Baker, Louie and Rat successfully board but Cappy is injured after a fall. The Remora intercepts and docks with the airliner. Grant and DARPA engineer Dennis Cahill reluctantly join the mission. The Pentagon authorizes a mid-air insertion of Travis' special operations team onto the hijacked airliner using the experimental "Remora F117x" aircraft. Grant doubts Hassan's demands, suspecting he engineered Jaffa's capture, and intends to use the 747 to detonate a bomb loaded with the DZ-5 in U.S. Army intelligence consultant behind the botched raid, is summoned to a meeting at the Pentagon to plan an operation to retake the plane. Meanwhile, just moments before the hijacking, a suicide bomber working for Jaffa destroys a London Marriott hotel restaurant.ĭr. Hassan and his men hijack the flight, demanding Jaffa's release. Three months later, Oceanic Airlines Flight 343, a Boeing 747-200, leaves Athens bound for Washington, D.C., with over 400 passengers aboard including Nagi Hassan, lieutenant of the imprisoned terrorist leader El Sayed Jaffa. Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis leads an unsuccessful Special Forces black ops raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in Trieste, Italy, to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5.
