 High school student Alex Browning boards <unk> Airlines Flight 180 with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris , France . Before take @-@ off , Alex has a premonition that the plane will suffer a catastrophic engine failure , causing the plane to explode in mid @-@ air , and killing everyone on board . When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality , he panics and a fight breaks out between Alex and his rival , Carter Horton . This leads to several passengers being removed from the plane , including Alex ; Carter ; Alex 's best friend , Tod Waggner ; Carter 's girlfriend , Terry Chaney ; teacher Valerie Lewton ; and students Billy Hitchcock and Clear Rivers . None of the passengers , except for Clear , believe Alex about his vision until the plane explodes on take @-@ off , killing the remaining passengers on board . Afterwards , the survivors are interrogated by two FBI agents , who believe that Alex had something to do with the explosion . 
