A flight attendant is paralyzed in a tragic accident on board an airliner. Jack Traner, an intense, senior engineer for the airline is made a scapegoat for the incident and his "all American" life with his wife, Ann, comes apart at the seams. Depressed and angry, he nontheless is determined to stick it out and solve his problems somehow. Incredibly, Jack is delt a second, devastating blow when an engine explodes on a plane in which Ann is a passenger. When he discovers that the real cause of the bizarre accident points straight back to the airline's arrogant management, Jack is pushed beyond the breaking point and secretly plots revenge --- in a manner that hasn't been seen since D. B. Cooper's infamous hijacking over four decades ago. Armed with the expertise and access to all of the airline's planes, Jack sets in motion a plan that propels this compelling story of love, cover-ups, high stakes bluffs in the air and death in the shadow of Weaver's Needle in the Arizona desert.