Airplane heist

A professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family's life on the line must commit one final heist - rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world's most dangerous criminals.

Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.

In this homage to the disaster genre of the 1970s, an insane hijacker takes control of an airplane and demands one million dollars.

To break the plane during flight 747 and steal a quarter of a billion dollars is needed pervaded team, however, the members are given betrayals that can spoil the coup.

Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. The heist was also the subject of the much better-known 1990 film "Goodfella"s, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was also the subject of another made-for-television film: "The 10 Million Dollar Getaway" from 1991.

Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.

Two businessmen by day - and bank robbers by night - pull off one last heist after one of them suspects their significant other is cheating on them.

An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.

Two pilots are hired to reclaim a stolen jet from the son of a South American dictator.

A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.