Ha Jung-woo stars as Tae-in, a former Air Force pilot turned commercial first officer. After the captain is injured in the initial blast, Tae-in must navigate the crisis to save the passengers.
The story follows (played by Ha Jung-woo), a former South Korean Air Force fighter pilot who was forced into retirement after refusing an order to shoot down a hijacked plane in 1969. Now working as a commercial co-pilot, Tae-in's past comes back to haunt him during a routine domestic flight from Sokcho to Seoul in January 1971. Film Review: Hijack 1971 - CSUSB ScholarWorks
There are no wire-fu martial arts or one-man armies. The action is brutal, clumsy, and real:
