Defy Me, Captain? Regret It Forever

Hidden ex-pilot saves doomed flight, then framed for the disaster.

Tower controller Kayla Shaw conceals her elite Air Force pilot background while monitoring Flight WA-718. She detects catastrophic left-engine failure, but Captain Clayton and administrator Vera dismiss her warning as romantic obsession. After takeoff the engine explodes, tearing open the fuselage. Kayla abandons her post, forces entry onto the crippled jet, and wrestles control from the flames to land the aircraft. In the aftermath she is framed as the culprit while Clayton loses his career, and hidden secrets surface that return her to the sky.

• thriller
• action
• drama

1. Kayla Shaw hides Air Force pilot past
2. Captain Clayton ignores engine failure warning
3. Kayla boards burning plane to land it

Aviation thriller fans who want a competent heroine fighting institutional arrogance at 30,000 feet.