radar ahead.
Fuel reserves were shrinking.
Their first officer remained unconscious.
Then a doctor who had volunteered from the passenger cabin appeared at the cockpit entrance.
“Captain, I examined your first officer. I don’t believe this is a normal medical collapse.”
Andrew turned.
“What do you mean?”
“His symptoms are consistent with chemical poisoning.”
Silence filled the cockpit.
Laura immediately looked toward the center console.
Something was missing.
“Where is his coffee thermos?”
The flight attendant looked around.
“It was here.”
Laura’s stomach tightened.
The broken flight-control system.
An incapacitated
