Flight 🎥 2012 Movie Info

Plot Summary

One morning, Whip Whitaker, a captain for SouthJetAir, snorts cocaine to stay alert after a long night of drinking in his Orlando hotel room with Katerina Marquez, a flight attendant he will be flying with later that morning. He pilots Flight 227 to Atlanta, which experiences severe turbulence during takeoff. Meanwhile, amateur photographer and drug addict Nicole Maggen buys heroin and has an argument with her landlord. She suffers an overdose after injecting herself with the drug. After takeoff, the first officer, Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap.

He is jolted awake as the plane suffers a mechanical fault and goes into a steep dive. Whip regains control by pulling out of the dive and rolling the aircraft inverted, flying over Nicole’s motel, and makes a controlled crash-landing in an open field. On impact, Whip suffers a blow to his head and loses consciousness. Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with moderate injuries and is greeted by his old friend, Charlie Anderson, who now represents the airline’s pilots union after retiring from flying. Charlie tells Whip that his actions saved 96 out of 102 aboard the plane, losing two crew members and four passengers, with 37 severe injuries. Whip learns that flight attendants Camelia Satou and Katerina both died in the crash.

Head flight attendant Margaret Thomason is also in the hospital with minor injuries. Evans is in a coma after suffering a severe head injury but is expected to recover. Whip is visited by friend and drug dealer Harling Mays, who proffers porn magazines, a carton of cigarettes, and a pint of vodka, the last of which Whip refuses. Whip sneaks away for a cigarette and meets Nicole, recovering from an overdose in the same hospital, along with a cheerful chemotherapy patient.

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