Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.
Practical Effects
The plane set wobbles visibly. They kept it.
Acting
Charles S. Dutton screaming at a radar screen: Oscar-worthy commitment.
Visual Effects
Missile effects from a 1998 flight simulator.

Director
T.J. Scott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
T.J. Scott directed this between episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess and CSI, which explains the tonal whiplash.
This aired on CBS in 2005 when networks still commissioned disaster movies for sweeps week, a tradition now extinct.