May 4, 1953 For most of the American public of the 1930s and 1940s, air travel was a mystery. It was for government personnel, business executives, and the very wealthy. Richard Dix plays a Navy lieutenant traveling with his fiancé Monica. They are boarding a plane from New York to Los Angeles with a planned stop for them to de-plane in Philadelphia. Just prior to boarding, millionaire industrialist Silas Naylor and two bodyguards and his secretary Mr. Shepherd arrive to board the same plane. Naylor is on a mission vital to the United States war effort, and normally buys all the seats on the plane for himself and his assistants. He allows the lieutenant and Monica to come on board. After a short while in the air, the Lieutenant realizes that they should have landed in Philadelphia but were still airborne… over the Atlantic. The pilots are gone and the plane is on autopilot…
