Although 24-light, a credible cast including Tom Skerritt and Scott Glenn lend their weight to an overly busy script and adequate production.

The story inevitably includes those who do things by the book and out-and-out mavericks who break all the rules. All thrown into a mix with a bunch of stereo-typical Arab-looking terrorists with whom they play a game of cat and mouse.

There's enough human-interest stuff in there with the Skerritt character who initially thinks he's lost his daughter in one of the crashes.

A touch of gung-ho neo-con propaganda renders the film not wholly inoffensive, but it manages to mildly entertain for all of its 90 minutes.