They mocked the woman in seat 22C—until two fighter jets aligned with her window, and a pilot spoke her name in a way that made the entire plane forget how to breathe.

instability caused by a cascading systems issue no one had anticipated. Then one failure became three. Then the sky turned ugly. Then the executive aircraft lost key navigation support at exactly the wrong moment over exactly the wrong corridor.

In official language, those minutes were later described as “an unprecedented convergence of aerial risk.continue reading …