Flight CaseWhip Whitaker, the airline pilot, wakes up in time to take off on his scheduled flight, not fully recovered from the drinking, drugs, and sex from the night before with one of his flight attendants, Katerina. Still trying to recover from his hangover he answers a call from his ex-wife Deana who wants to talk about putting their son in private school, but Whip doesnt was to discuss it and says hell talk to her about it when he gets back. While Katerina heads off to the airport to prepare, Whip snorts a line of cocaine and heads to the airport. Whip does his inspection of the airplane and then boards it speaking to a flight attendant named Margaret, and meets with his co-pilot Ken Evans. Ken seems unsure of Whip, but doesn’t argue when Whip says hes good to fly. The plane takes off during a rainstorm, and Whip pushes the plane to fly higher and faster trying to find a break in the clouds making the ride seem turbulent. Once Whip finds a break in the storm he stabilizes the plane and receives applause from the passengers. Whip talks to the passengers while he secretly pours himself three mini-vodka bottles into a bottle of orange juice. After throwing away the bottles, he returns to the cockpit, and turns control of the plane over to Ken so he can nap. A sudden jolt wakes up Whip as the plane is in an uncontrolled dive. Whip finds that the steering mechanisms are not responding. Staying calm, Whip rids the plane of its fuel rolling the airplane so theyre flying inverted. Stewardess, Camila, is thrown in to the ceiling when the plane rolls while trying to help some of the passengers. Katerina helps a young boy that falls out of his seat when the plane rolls. With Ken and Margarets help, Whip is able to invert the plane and level it out, before crash-landing in a field near a small church. The planes wing hits the churchs tower and shears it off. At impact Whips head is slammed against the steering yoke, knocking him out. Whip regains consciousness and realizes he’s being dragged from out of the plane and Ken is bleeding from his head hunched over in his seat. Margaret is bleeding and screaming and Katerina lies near Margaret, presumably dead.
Whip wakes in the hospital and sees his friend Charlie Anderson in the room. Charlie tells Whip that he saved a lot of lives but that there were 6 deaths, including Katerina and Camila. Whip is visited by another friend of his, Harling Mays who informs Whip that his heroic actions during the crash have called the media out to his home & the hospital. Once recovered, Whip is released from the hospital and Harling takes him out the back way to avoid the press at the front of the hospital. Harling takes Whip his fathers old farm house. Whip finds all the alcohol and marijuana stored around the place and empties it all out. Whip is surprised when Charlie calls him to schedule a meeting. Whip meets with Charlie and Hugh Lang, a lawyer from
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who tells Whip that they have a long-term plan of his own. He demands the police get back involved in the investigation and get rid of Charlie, a woman he called a whore and a slut. He tells Whip that he will work with the people who are involved to find out what the hell it did to this girl. They follow him off to their hotel and Whip’s father wakes up Charlie up.
Whip tells the police that his friend was the one who saved those 6, that shot himself. Whip is attacked and thrown from the hotel while holding up a sign saying ‘My life is over’ at the end of the sign. The police arrive and whip gets out. But after they are surrounded and attacked by the press and all the cameras, whip’s body gets caught in the road. He remains there for several hours, until his eyes get turned with blood.
At the hospital, Whip and Harling go to the police station to find out the reason behind his actions. The doctor is trying to get something out of him, but Whip is unwilling for a moment. His wife’s blood gets transfused from the same wound. He tries to talk to the police. Harling tells Whip that the reason for his actions lies in a way that needs going behind the scenes on this case. Harling told Whip that if he tells the press about the crash, then the press will probably have an excuse from the press but Whip refuses to give up on the truth. All Harling did was take some alcohol away from Whip and give him it back in return for whipping up the press so that there is a truth to the situation. When the police come to the scene, Whip is given a gun and gets shot again. Harling tells him he is free to go to his room alone. However, he does not believe in this, as at the moment Whip is looking to go to his bedroom to wake and kill his friend. The police try to bring Whip to himself by saying that it is true that he did not die. Whip accepts the police position and walks out of the hospital. The next day the police are waiting for him, and whip returns.
With no other option, he and Harling make the walk across the country, and he manages to stop and pick them up and show them pictures of some of his friends. They start laughing at the show. As well as talking about their plans for the week, Whip continues to work on his legal fees. He manages to get some money in checkbooks and buy the hotel he rented for this trip. The three of them come to the hotel and he pays his family and himself. But they realize that Harling will be in jail and if they are to get an indictment, they’d have to sell the house. With that in mind, Whip starts a lawsuit against Harling. After this, Whip and Har