Garnett has reason to believe a murderer has stowed away in the nosewheel housing of a freight plane bound for New York. But murderer or not, the man's life is in danger.

An ex-bootlegger decides to tell all he knows to a Congressional Crime Committee. To stop him, his old associates kidnap his granddaughter.

Delaney's holiday on the idyllic Caribbean island is rudely interrupted when he finds it is in the direct path of Hurricane Hilda - and there is only one small plane to fly everyone out.