Alex Browning, a 17-year-old American high school student, boards a Boeing 747 with his classmates for their trip to Paris. Before takeoff, he has a nightmare in which the plane explodes in midair, killing all of its passengers. Alex wakes up and understands that he has just had a premonitory vision. When the events of his vision begin to occur in reality, he decides to alert the crew and to encourage the passengers to leave the plane, but a fight breaks out between Alex and his rival, Carter Horton. As a result, Alex, Carter, Tod Waggner, Alex's best friend Terry Chaney, Carter's girlfriend, teacher Valerie Lewton, and students Billy Hitchcock and Claire Rivers are kicked off the device. None of the passengers, except for Claire, believe Alex about her vision until the plane explodes on t