Omega Airlines Boeing 737 blows a tire on takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport and crashes into Flushing Bay. The Captain and ten people are killed; the First Officer and fifty-eight injured. With his divorce imminent, Omega Airlines Pilot Instructor Kyle Masters is brought in to assist the NTSB's accident investigation. He and NTSB Investigator Lori Almond discover someone had played a role in the accident. Determined to absolve the crew and the airline of full responsibility for the disaster, the duo uses Kyle's operational knowledge and Lori's expertise in accident investigations to close in on the responsible party. That puts them, and Kyle's family's, in danger.