Cruising Altitude, No Looking Back

Captain Anthony Cole is taken off the flight deck and demoted to flight attendant. The order comes from Liam Carter, the Director of Flight Operations and the son of the man who trained Anthony, who calls the way Anthony flies outdated. The new captain, Tristan Hart, flies by the automated systems and skips the manual checks, which leaves problems on the aircraft unfound. Before departure Anthony spots a fault on the aircraft, and when he reports it he is laughed at. His family needs the money, so he keeps quiet and boards to work the cabin. After takeoff the ground crew finds screws that came off the plane, but by then it has reached cruising altitude. Part of the outer shell tears away and the aircraft begins shaking hard. Anthony proposes an emergency landing and Liam blocks it. Anthony forcibly takes over the controls. The only place within reach where he can put the plane down is a racetrack on a high plateau. Liam keeps trying to stop him until the chief flight attendant shouts him down, and Anthony gets the plane onto the track with everyone on board alive. Afterwards Liam puts it about that Anthony is claiming credit he did not earn, and Anthony leaves the airline. Some time later a princess from the Middle East arrives to select a captain, opinion about the landing turns, and Anthony demonstrates a technique he worked out himself.