The right main stayed dark — no down-and-locked indication, the same right gear that had been bleeding hydraulic pressure.

Reeves let out a slow breath.

“If that leg folds on touchdown, we drop the wing and slide off into the grass at a hundred and forty knots.”

“Then we don’t let it fold.” I set my hands on the secondary controls, light, ready.

“I’ve got you.”

“You’ve never landed an airliner.”

“No,” I said, my eyes on the runway lights swimming up through the rain.

“But keeping an aircraft on the centerline when everything on it is failing — that I know how to do.