“She Slept Peacefully — Until the Captain Screamed: ‘Any Fighter Pilots on Board?!’”

and evasion vectors. Those words meant little to most commercial pilots. But to anyone with fighter training, they were unmistakable.

Hayes felt his mouth go dry. He had 30 years of experience in commercial aviation, but he had no military background and no training in defensive maneuvers against hostile fighters. No one in the cockpit did.

He looked continue reading …