Wealthy philanthropist Philip Stevens is having invited guests flown in his luxurious privately-owned Boeing 747-100, Stevens's Flight 23, to his Palm Beach, Florida estate.

Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), a corrupt arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, reporter Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely), learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War.

Columbia Air Lines Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport.

The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement, travels to Athens.

Airport is a 1970 American air disaster–drama film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin.

Black Thunder is a 1998 action film directed by Rick Jacobson and starring Michael Dudikoff and Richard Norton.

On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece.

An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum prior to a professional football championship dubbed as "Championship X" (Ten) between Baltimore and Los Angeles, similar to the Super Bowl.

Early one morning, an earthquake jolts the Los Angeles metro area.

After crash landing his previous military flight and barely escaping with his life, Major John Masters (Antonio Sabàto Jr.

A combined Russian-American special forces operation captures General Ivan Radek, the dictator of Kazakhstan. Three weeks later, U. S.

Extreme Limits is a 2000 American direct-to-video action disaster thriller film directed by Jim Wynorski. It was also known as Crash Point Limits.

When terrorists hijack a flight, one man must find a way to save everyone on board.

A group of people celebrate overcoming their fear of flying by taking a flight together.

Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis leads an unsuccessful Special Forces raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in Italy to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5.

Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) returns to San Francisco for the dedication of the Glass Tower, which he designed for developer James Duncan (William Holden).

In 1980, Operation Eagle Claw is aborted after a fatal helicopter crash, with the U. S. Delta Force evacuating to their C-130 transports.

Counterstrike may refer to:.

British international terrorist Charles Rane (Payne), whose career has been dubbed as "The Rane of Terror" by the media, is arrested by the FBI and local authorities in Miami, just as he is about to undergo plastic surgery in order to evade law enforcement.

Terrorists take over a mountain ski resort with a stolen nuclear weapon and a ski patrolman attempts to stop them.