Jet

PLOT

Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland) was cleared of liability for an ill-fated flight under his authority which resulted in the loss of Transair flight 290, a Lockheed L-1011 with all 174 souls aboard. He subsequently left the job and went on to design air control software, until five years later when T.C. Bryant (Bruce McGill), his ex-colleague who had since transferred to Phoenix, pleads for help on New Year's Eve, due to a critical staff shortage and with torrential weather predicted.

Jack's return to the control room is met with both warmth and disdain, particularly when he experiences flashbacks of the crash. The atmosphere rapidly becomes much more serious as the storm approaches and, with the control tower suffering power cuts, the team is forced into manually directing busy air traffic through severe turbulence.

CAST

Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Harris

Bruce McGill as T.C. Bryant

Kristy Swanson as Julie Albrecht

Robert Sean Leonard as Cruise

Kelly McGillis as Susan Stratton

Margaret Cho as Amanda

Charles Fleischer as Randy

Henry Winkler as John Quinn

Farrah Forke as Laura Franklin

Michael Gross as Murray

Jack Plotnick as Curtis

Brian George as Shamaal

John Bennett Perry as Senator Rutherford

Eleanor Mondale as Christine

Alex Wexo as Flight 393 Pilot

John Nielsen as "pissed off" pilot

Drew Snyder as David, Pilot, Flight 47

Steve Sax as Co-pilot, Flight 47

Ruben Paul as Sam

Vito D'Ambrosio as weather analyst

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

also known as Ground Control