On a summer evening, a Tokyo-bound airliner departs Los Angeles, but never reaches its destination. Vanishing without a trace off of coastal Alaska, the world is left to wonder the fate of 239 passengers and crew. Countless theories abound, but for lack of any obvious explanation, the event soon becomes the most confounding aviation mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
For Kevin Bailey, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, the loss of the aircraft is deeply personal, and he vows to stop at nothing to find out what happened.