Flight

Airline pilot Captain Whip Whitaker uses cocaine to wake up after a sleepless night in his Orlando hotel room. He pilots SouthJet Air Flight 227 aboard an MD-88 to Atlanta, which experiences severe turbulence at takeoff. Copilot Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. Just before starting the descent to 22,000 feet, he is jolted awake by a loud metallic bang as the plane goes into a steep dive. Unable to control the elevators, Whip is forced to invert the aircraft to maintain altitude. At the last moment, he is able to right the plane for a controlled belly landing in an open field in Clayton County, Georgia, with the plane's wing shearing off the spire of a church on its final descent. Upon the plane hitting the ground, Whip is knocked unconscious.