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

the closure rate.”

The commercial aircraft could never outfly the fighters. The point was to stay alive long enough that the fighters never got a clean, confident engagement window.

The storm helped and hurt in equal measure. Lightning flashed through the cockpit windows. Radar returns bloomed and pulsed. The violent weather limited visibility and complicated continue reading …