8:30 P.M. CST, K4R4, the designation for H. L. Sonny Callahan Airport, in Fairhope, Alabama –
“4-Romeo-4 this is Bravo Tango Golf 7-2-5, please repeat your last instructions. Our radio picked up some radio interference.”
“Sssssssssccrhcrhssssssssssss…”
“4-Romeo-4 this is Bravo Tango Golf 7-2-5, please repeat your….”
“Zzzzzzzt. Pop, pop!” (The electronics and lighting go completely dead. The pilot releases the mike button.).
“What the heck is going on?” The pilot of the Beechcraft King Air 100 is struggling with a ‘blacked-out’ aircraft about to land, or about to….
“Circuit breakers blew. Won‘t reset. Tried three times.”
Less than 500 feet in the air and about a mile and a half from the airport, Jack Thompson is fighting the 25 knot crosswinds buffeting the blinded aircraft. The plane is traveling at about 11,000 feet per minute. If the pilots could see the ground, it would be a blur.
The runway lights flicker, go out, back on then out again.
“Jack, did you see that? Even the street lights are out. We have no landmarks or bearings to guide us in! Son of a…”
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Bent on destroying the comfort zone, the secure feelings of American citizens, Al Queada explodes onto the domestic scene in a peaceful, quiet community called Fairhope, Alabama.
Fairhope, on an average day, is the muse of artists, sculptors, authors, videographers, film directors, actors and other creative types. Today, Fairhope is a focal point for a homegrown terrorist, Al Masoud, and his Afghanistan partner in war crimes, Habib.
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