Strategic Command is a 1997 air hijack

Aircraft hijacking

Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Occasionally, however, the hijackers have flown the aircraft themselves, such as the September 11 attacks of 2001...

 movie starring Michael Dudikoff

Michael Dudikoff

Michael Joseph Dudikoff II is an American actor who has been in numerous films, including the American Ninja series , Tron , Bachelor Party , Platoon Leader , River of Death , Soldier Boyz , Ringmaster , and The Silencer , to name a few...

 and Richard Norton. The film was originally titled Executive command, but was renamed Strategic Command.

Plot

Rick Hardden (Michael Dudikoff) is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer as part of his retirement from the Marines. While packing up for the night at FBI research lab, a group of armed soldiers break into the lab and steal large amounts of a newly-created germ warfare isotope called Bromax-360, losing two of their men in the process. Rick manages to fight their leader in an elevator, but is badly beaten up as the leader regroups with his men and the soldiers escape into the night.