airplane flies too high can't come down

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

A young boy imagines his mother to be an airplane who travels to exotic lands.

An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.