Don't watch this film. It will plant the idea that flight crew really
might be this stupid in your mind and make you afraid to fly. This is
one of those movies where no-one does anything sensible, from the
pilot, who, knowing that there are two violent criminals on board his
'plane, hears gunshots and goes out to see what's happening, to the
stewardess who's locked herself in the cabin because she KNOWS what's
going on, and then comes out because the bad guy tells her that her
friend is asking for her, despite the trifling fact that the cops, the
FBI, and the ground crew have all told her that her friend is probably
already dead, and they need her in the cabin to monitor what the
'plane's doing or everyone will be dead anyway.
You will, however, be pleased to learn that, after being set alight,
flying into a casino and a parking garage, having a truck wedged on its
undercarriage, and being fired at by a fighter plane (Not to mention
the scene, right out of 'Airplane', where the 'plane flies upside down
for a while, entirely of its own volition...), the aeroplane itself
emerges unscathed.
This isn't so bad that it's good, it's so bad that it should have been
strangled at birth, and I'm a pacifist by nature.