One of the team members, Swoop, leaps from the building, parachuting down onto Leedy and stopping him in his tracks. Pete lands safely on the ground and is escorted away by paramedics, but spots Leedy wearing a DEA jacket leaving the scene. Luckily, Pete opens his emergency parachute as Ty tumbles to his death. A fight breaks out between Pete and Ty that results in both of them falling out the building window. Ty, having kidnapped Jessie, appears and threatens to kill her unless Pete releases Leedy. He breaks in and holds Leedy (who has already started downloading the identities) as hostage. Pete tries to find access to the DEA mainframe control room, eliminating Ty's men one by one, with the help of the parachuting team. Jessie, managing to grab hold of the aircraft door bar, lets go on a free fall just as Pete and the parachuting team arrive and rescue her, floating down safety to the roof of the DEA mainframe office building where Ty has already arrived. But Ty's men kick her outside and then parachute out. On the night of the Independence Day exhibition, Jessie sneaks into Ty's parachuting aircraft, holding them at gunpoint in order to determine an explanation for Jagger's death. Jessie's parachuting friend Selkirk is severely injured after using a faulty parachute that Ty had intended for Jessie to use. When Pete discovers Ty's plan to hack into the DEA mainframe, the rest of the parachuting team agrees to help Pete with the situation. Pete inquires as to the parachute's lack of metal, which Jessie explains is a custom "smuggler's rig" made with high density fabrics to deter detection. Jessie breaks into the police impound to examine Jagger's parachute, declares that his death was a murder engineered by Ty, and swears revenge. Soon after, Jagger is found dead, tangled in some high voltage power lines, after his identity was exposed by a passenger during the hijacking. Jessie, who is unaware that Jagger is part of Ty's crew, agrees to train Pete how to skydive, if he will sponsor her team for the parachute exhibition. Pete is instead referred to Jagger's reckless ex-girlfriend, ex-con Jessie Crossman, who runs a skydiving school in the Florida Keys. The instructor believes the world class skydiver Don Jagger could perform the jump, but does not know his current whereabouts. Navy high-altitude military parachuting instructor who confirms that he and his team have parachuted from that height and speed, but also states that the high-density metal rings in the parachutes would not pass airport metal detectors and that the operation required either rare skills or suicidal recklessness. A devastated Pete is blamed for overreacting to the incident, and forced to turn in his badge. However, the FBI declares that sneaking a parachute through airport security is impossible, and that parachuting at the jet's altitude and speed is not survivable. Pete believes that the hijacking may have been an elaborate prison break meant to free Leedy. Ty has scheduled this to be accomplished during an Independence Day parachute exhibition and fireworks display, which is the one day every year when security is loosened around the airspace above D.C. so Ty can auction off the names of undercover agents to drug cartels worldwide. Ty plans to use Leedy to hack into the DEA mainframe computer in Washington, D.C. When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the airliner, Terry is sucked out falling more than 30,000 feet to his death, and the terrorists parachute out of the same hole, taking Leedy with them.Įx- DEA agent and renegade skydiver Ty Moncrief is the mastermind behind the attack, which culminated in the first ever parachute jump from a commercial jet at 30,000 feet. Marshals brothers Terry and Pete Nessip are escorting computer expert Earl Leedy to a high-security prison. Aboard a commercial Boeing 747 airliner, U.S.
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