Sometimes you've got to kick in the afterburner even when the acceleration comes at the expense of burning all your fuel. To survive, the gain must exceed the consequences. And some people have a real knack for this, like Charlie Ravich and Christina Welles. Thirty years earlier, Charlie Ravich's jet is hit while flying a mission over Vietnam.
Emergency procedures dictate switching to the afterburner.
At the risk of breaking up the plane sooner, he gains as much distance as possible in hopes of getting to friendlier ground before ejecting . It's this same instinct that has helped him build a successful telecommunications manufacturing business. There are, however, some kinks in his life. His only surviving offspring, Julia, cannot conceive a child. Nature and technology have let her down.