A pilot loses his nerve when one of his plane's engines fails on a flight bound for San Francisco, leaving his washed-up co-pilot to fly the craft to safety and save the passengers' lives. Disaster thriller based on the novel by Ernest K Gann, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day and Robert Stack.

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.