Con Air 🎥 1997 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Decorated honorably discharged Army Ranger Cameron Poe is convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing a bar patron in self-defense when the other man drunkenly attacks him and his pregnant wife, Tricia. Eight years later, he is paroled and boards a flight to Alabama on the Jailbird, a Fairchild C-123 Provider converted to a prison transport plane, so he can be reunited with Tricia and their daughter Casey, whom he has never met. Accompanying Poe is his diabetic cellmate and best friend Mike “Baby-O” O’Dell.

Most of the inmates boarding the flight are convicts being transferred to a newly opened supermax prison, including mass murderer William “Billy Bedlam” Bedford, serial rapist John “Johnny 23” Baca, Black Guerrilla Nathan “Diamond Dog” Jones, and professional criminal Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom. The flight is overseen by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin while DEA special agent Willie Sims plans to go on an undercover mission to get information from narcoterrorist Francisco Cindino, who is being picked up en route. After taking off, inmate Joe “Pinball” Parker sets another prisoner on fire as a distraction, allowing Grissom and Jones to take over the plane.

They plan to land at Carson Airport as scheduled, pick up and transfer other prisoners and fly to a non-extradition country. Sims tries to retake control, but Grissom kills him in the process. The plane arrives at Carson City and the inmates exchange commences, with the ground crew unaware of the hijacking. Amongst the new passengers are Cindino, pilot Earl “Swamp Thing” Williams and serial killer Garland Greene. The authorities discover the hijacking upon finding evidence in Grissom’s old cell and a tape recorder planted by Poe on one of the disguised guards but cannot prevent the plane from taking off. Meanwhile, Pinball disposes of the plane’s transponder, but he is crushed to death by the landing gear during takeoff.

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