After the Boeing 797-X prototype (portrayed on screen by an Airbus A340-300) flying as Atlantic and Pacific Airlines (A&P) 713 takes off from Denver, Colorado bound for Sydney, Australia with the dignitaries and media people covering the Miss USA/Universe contestants enjoying the maiden flight; chapters of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the Aryan Nations (Identity Evropa) all under the umbrella term "Hammerskins" take everybody on board hostage and incapacitate the flight crew. Realizing their captors are planning an attack on Sydney, the passengers put aside their differences and band together to dispose of their tormentors. Without the flight crew and with a major Pacific storm approaching, the third-place prospective contestant who has flown her own private jets tries to land the plane safely in Sydney. The question is can they make it in time for some other passengers aboard including a sick little girl.