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Barrett had hauled the last cable in less than an hour before, and the plane was airborne withinthe door Al Hibbet had watched with a sad expression as the plane took off He had wanted to join the mission, but Austin said they needed to leave soe of the mission behind Just in case

The huratulations that followed, then stretched out on some empty seats and promptly fell asleep Austin reers and tucked it on the seat beside her

"Thanks," Barrett said "Now, if you'll excuseKarla's example, he yawned and crawled onto the next row of sets where he, too, stretched out and immediately fell asleep

Austin itude and latitude at the position on his coator the coordinates He asked how long before they would be on-site and was told it would be approximately two hours Austin looked out the cockpitat the layer of cottony clouds that stretched out as far as the eye could see

The creas made up entirely of volunteers ere fully aware that they were flying on a dangerous ht plan, Austin and Zavala returned to the passenger cabin

"Froet about the same time as the ship," Zavala said

"It's an even tighter squeeze We'll be in the saet there, we'll have to launch a search pattern I don't kno long it will take to find the transmitter ship"

"Any delay could be fatal That low cloud cover won't help"

"I've been thinking about that The Trouts reported that they saw a lot of electrical activity in the sky minutes before their boat was sucked into the whirlpool"

"That's right And Al said there were celestial fireworks when the US and the Soviets were fooling around with electronetic warfare based on the Kovacs Theorems"

"Then there's every reason to think that we'll see the saear up their zapper I think we should be looking at the sky rather than the sea The clouds ht actually help us find the ship"

"Brilliant! I'll alert the crew to look for fireworks"

Austin reluctantly awakened Karla and Barrett He gave them a few minutes to rub the sleep out of their eyes As the plane sped toward the South Atlantic Anoreed to split up when the time came, with Karla on one side of the plane, Barrett on the other Austin would alternate back and forth and serve as liaison with Zavala, ould keep watch from the cockpit

Zavala's voice came over the speakers He said the plane would pass over the outer limits of the search area in fifteentension in the cabin The atrew even tenser when Zavala announced that they were in the hot zone They took up their positions at the aircraft's s Ten minutes passed, then twenty Austin ement It was hard to believe that a vast ocean lay below the thick layer of clouds

Austin had suggested that the plane fly a series of parallel runs back and for