Four archeology students and their professor take a trip to South America to explore ancient ruins. Their bus driver, however, is in cahoots with a guerrilla leader named Alzar (John Aniston) and the kids are captured and treated as spies. Hawke learns of the capture and returns with Santini and Airwolf to rescue the kids and Caitlyn, but Airwolf is hit by a surface-to-air missile and limps away from Alzar's compound with the kids and Caitlyn, but Hawke and Ozzie, the museum guide, are left behind as prisoners. With Airwolf grounded and little hope of immediate rescue, the kids, Caitlyn and Dom must devise a plan to fix Airwolf and rescue Hawke before Alzar executes him as an American spy.
—R. Bernard Ment