Tailspin Tommy, a movie stunt pilot, quits his job after suspecting that someone in the production company has sabotaged the plane in order to get real crash footage. Shortly thereafter, his replacement is involved in a horrible accident, and he begins investigating. To help a friend in need, he gets behind the controls one more time only to find that the aircraft's blanks have been replaced with real bullets, and an actor is killed, resulting in Tommy's arrest.