Alex Browning and his high school classmates are about to embark on a trip of a lifetime to Paris. As passengers make sure their seat backs and tray tables are placed in their upright and locked positions and that their seat belts are securely fastened, Alex has a vision of their plane exploding mid-takeoff. He begins warning nearby passengers and directing them to get off the plane. This doesn't bode well with the crew, and they escort him off the aircraft along with seven other people who decide to follow. Back in the terminal, the eight of them watch as their plane does indeed explode like a big firework in the sky. That's not where this story ends. Alex and the others aren't safe, because in their wild escape, they awoke a grim reaper.
