Iron Eagle

Iron Eagle is a movie starring Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, and David Suchet. A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.