- Inspired by true incidents, "Runway 34" revolves around Captain Vikrant Khanna played by Ajay Devgn, a flying prodigy, whose flight takes a mysterious course after take-off from an international destination.
- Vikrant Khanna is the captain of a flight traveling from Dubai to Kochi with passengers and crew of 150 and co pilot Tanya Alburquerque. Vikrant has a hangover of overnight party and is bit restless, the flight takes a smooth journey but when it reaches nearby to its destination the weather turns out to be very bad due to heavy rains and cyclone.The aviation department asks Vikrant Khanna to divert the flight towards Bangalore, but Vikrant decides to take a chance not once but thrice to land at Kochi but fails. With the amount of fuel left on the flight Vikrant decides to land in Trivandrum but the aviation department fails to provide them the information that the cyclone has approached Trivandrum and all flights are diverted. When the flight reaches Trivandrum, the cyclone has already approached and there is no visibility at all while the flight is also low on fuel. In this situation Vikrant's only motive is to save everyone's life, and he manages to land the flight safely with a narrow escape from imminent crash.Vikrant turns a hero to flight passengers but soon an inquiry is conducted on him and his co-pilot, Tanya, headed by Narayan Vedant.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Captain Vikrant Khanna is an accomplished pilot, who is preparing for a flight from Dubai to Cochin. He drinks alcohol and parties the night before the flight, and feels tired on boarding it, where his co-pilot is Tanya Albuquerque. Later, a cyclone in Cochin leads to the flight being diverted to Trivandrum on Khanna's suggestion, despite objection from Albuquerque. Albuquerque says that Bengaluru has to be the second option, not Trivandrum, as the latter is near Cochin and has a high chance of having bad weather too. Khanna says that if they divert to Trivandrum, they can attempt a landing there and save fuel. Due to miscommunication, the pilots do not realize that Trivandrum is facing weather worse than Cochin, which reduces the visibility level. Captain Khanna somehow manages to land the flight while closing his eyes, and averts a major disaster.
Prior to an enquiry, a small interrogation takes place, including Khanna's medical test. The instrument, however, is damaged and isn't able to reveal whether or not Khanna is drunk. The enquiry is held regarding the pilots' actions, headed by AAIB Head Narayan Vedant. The enquiry is held mainly because Alma Asthana, an elderly woman who was on the flight and was the sole passenger to trust Khanna with his decision to divert to Trivandrum, had died of a heart attack on her way to the hospital. During the enquiry, a polygraph is conducted on Khanna. Vedant scares Albuquerque with his questions and she mistakenly reveals that Khanna had closed his eyes during landing.
During the next session of the enquiry, Khanna reveals that he has a photographic memory, so he knew what he was doing during landing, even though his eyes were closed as he was imagining everything in his mind based on past landings on the same runway. He eventually proves it through a simulated flight with Vedant as his co-pilot. He makes the same movements that he did on the night of the landing, this time wearing an eye cap over his eyes, to assure Vedant that he can land flights without seeing. He is suspended for three months, but is praised for his skill. After three months Vikrant is going for his next flight and it is revealed that an air hostess drank the alcohol because of sheer terror.
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