A flight computer that failed in a way she had never seen a healthy one fail.

A pilot down, not from the sky but from something someone had put in his hands.

And now the one object that could prove any of it, lifted quietly out of a locked cockpit in the middle of a crisis.

These were not three pieces of bad luck that had happened to pile up on one airplane on one night.

Somebody had done this, on purpose, and somebody was still doing it.