Turbulent skies

Katherine Kelly is a flight attendant forced to smuggle drugs to save her son

- HANNAH DAVIES, ALISON SLADE

NEW DRAMA
In Flight
Tuesday-Thursday, 9pm, C4 (box set, Channel 4 Streaming)

Drug gangs, violent assassins and the extreme lengths an ordinary mother will go to save her son’s life are at the core of C4’s edge-of-your-seat international crime thriller In Flight.

The six-part series is set across the UK, Bulgaria, Thailand and Turkey and stars The Long Shadow’s Katherine Kelly as single mum and flight attendant Jo Conran, whose 19-year-old son Sonny (Dope Girls’ Harry Cadby) has recently been jailed in Sofia for killing a local man in a drunken brawl, a murder he swears he didn’t commit.

ILLEGAL CARGO

But things take a terrifying turn when Jo is approached at a bar by hardened criminal Cormac (