During a routine flight, the pilot Andrea Schubert encounters a mysterious and dangerous weather phenomenon.

By making a radical change in her
flight plan, she’s able to avoid the storm and safely land the plane along
with its 120 passengers at a small community airport. Although celebrated as a hero Andrea is suspended, because she had followed her own instincts instead of the control tower’s instructions. Her career as a pilot is now threatened.

Andrea, unwilling to give up the profession she so passionately loves, remains haunted by the question of the unexplained weather phenomenon. She begins a collaboration with the meteorologist Guttmann, who is working on a project
to prove the existence of the so-called “Supercells” – sudden, violent
storms capable of causing a plane to crash. Convinced that Guttmann’s theories can lead to the identification of the deadly storms, Andrea travels to the Tyrolean Alps to search for proof.

There she meets the brothers Tom and Bernie, both pilots who have recently experienced extremely intense and unexplained weather patterns similar to what she had endured. During one of his flights, Bernie is suddenly caught up in an unusually violent storm and crashes his Cessna. Bernie loses his pilot’s license. In order to help the brothers stay in business, Andrea steps in to take over for Bernie.

The meteorologist Guttmann arrives to carry out an extremely dangerous experiment – he wants to use the brothers’ planes to fly directly into a supercell to measure its intensity.

Unfortunately, the developing storm cell is reaching massive proportions, placing them all in critical danger…

Cloud Chasers
Adventure
Movie, 1 x 90’
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