Basis for the blockbuster film "Die Hard 2" starring Bruce Willis. "58 Minutes" is every traveler's secret nightmare. What if you are in an airplane during a violent snowstorm...What if your radar is destroyed...What if they can't get you down? It is 5:09 p.m. in New York City, and a man named Willi Staub is about to make sure the nightmare explodes into life. His goal: to bring the American government to its knees. He leads a carefully chosen team of revolutionaries from four continents to New York. Their plan: to hold as many people hostage as possible - in the skies above the city. Suddenly, without warning, the entire air traffic control system supporting nineteen airplanes above New York is wiped out. No radar, no radio, no vision. The first airplane will run out of fuel and crash in 58 minutes. And eighteen others will follow. Can one policeman stop the attack before it's too late?