On May 13, 2000, high school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing 747 with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport from New York John F. Kennedy Airport. Before takeoff, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everybody on board. When the events from his vision began to occur in reality, he panics until a fight breaks out between him and his rival Carter Horton, resulting both of them, and some few others to be forced-out from the plane, including Alex's best friend Tod Waggner, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney, teacher Valerie Lewton, and students Billy Hitchcock and Clear Rivers. None of the other passengers, except Clear, believe Alex about his vision until the plane explodes on takeoff. Afterwards, the survivors are interrogated by two FBI agents Weine and Schreck who both displayed their suspicions towards Alex.