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Amid congratulations and celebration, Marti and Cutter make their quiet escape into the distance hand-in-hand, but not before Chief Biggs offers them a ride. The plane quickly returns to the airfield, where the FBI agents secure Sabrina Ritchie, Rane's only remaining agent, and the remaining hostages are freed. Cutter manages to get Rane close to the open door and kicks him out of the plane, which sends Rane, screaming in terror, out into the night sky where he falls 35,000 feet (11 km) to his death.

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A bullet blows one of the plane's windows causing explosive decompression, and a door blows out. Inside, Cutter deals with more of Rane's accomplices before getting into a fight with Rane. Rane orders the pilots to take off, while Cutter, with Biggs' help, manages to jump from a car onto the speeding plane (through the nose landing gear) before it takes off. However, the sniper is Vincent, who kills the escorts, but is shot dead by Cutter, and Rane makes it inside safely. The FBI agents arrange to return Rane to the plane, escorted by two agents, with plans to have a sniper take down Rane and allow them to storm the plane to save the hostages. Cutter is able to kill one of Rane's men and gets into a fight with Rane before police arrive and capture him.īack at the tower, Rane announces that if he does not contact the plane and give flight clearance, his men aboard have been instructed to kill the rest of the hostages. FBI agents arrive and confirm Cutter's true identity to Biggs. Cutter recognizes the passenger release as a diversion, escapes from the sheriff, and chases Rane and his men into a local county fair.

Biggs gives the go-ahead for refueling, and as the passengers are freed, Rane and some of his men escape from the plane. Rane also fasely asserts that Cutter is one of his own men turned against him. For every five minutes of resistance or indecision, Rane will order five passengers to be executed. Rane contacts the field's tower and demands refueling, for which he promises half the passengers will be freed. The local sheriff, Leonard Biggs (Ernie Lively) and his deputies arrest Cutter, thinking he is a terrorist, and takes him to the airport building. As Cutter and Marti prepare to escape upon touchdown, Marti is caught by Forget and he kicks Cutter out of the plane. Cutter trips circuitry to dump the plane's fuel, forcing Rane to order the surviving pilots to land at a small Louisiana airfield. Cutter dispatches another of Rane's men, Vincent, who is disguised as a caterer. Cutter realizes he is outmatched and escapes with Marti to the cargo hold, while Rane kills the henchman that Cutter overpowered, ranting his 'incompetence'. Cutter, in the lavatory at the time, manages to use the plane's on-board phone to warn Delvecchio of the situation, but Cutter is soon caught by one of Rane's henchmen.Ĭutter overpowers the henchman and takes his weapon he then uses the agent (in a chokehold) as a shield to confront Rane, but an indifferent Rane shows his ruthlessness by mercilessly murdering a passenger in cold blood. After the flight takes off, several henchpersons in Rane's employ, posing as flight attendants and passengers, kill the FBI agents, release Rane, and secure the plane by also killing the captain. Rane and his two FBI escorts are also aboard. Cutter is reluctant, but Delvecchio and the company's president, Stuart Ramsey ( Bruce Greenwood), eventually convince him to accept the offer.Ĭutter boards as the 57th passenger on an Atlantic International flight to Los Angeles (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar), where one of his students, Marti Slayton (Datcher), is one of the flight attendants. After one class, Cutter is approached by an old friend, Sly Delvecchio ( Tom Sizemore), who offers Cutter the vice presidency of a new antiterrorism unit for his company, Atlantic International Airlines. Secret Service agent John Cutter (Snipes) is constantly haunted by the memories of his wife's death in a convenience store robbery and has launched a course specializing in training flight attendants in self-defense.

Widowed and reputed police officer, decorated soldier, and retired U.S. The FBI make plans to return Rane to Los Angeles for him to stand trial. British international terrorist Charles Rane (Payne), whose career has been dubbed as 'The Rane of Terror' by the media, is arrested by the FBI and local authorities in Miami, just as he is about to undergo plastic surgery in order to evade law enforcement.