 Rourke is on a Boeing 747 bound for Georgia when the missiles hit, and the pilots are blinded by the explosions.Rourke manages to crash-land the plane near Albuquerque, New Mexico and teams up with Paul Rubenstein, another survivor of the crash.With Soviet airborne forces landing on U.S. soil, and almost every other major U.S. politician dead, the U.S. president commits suicide to prevent a forced surrender.