SOF Learjet 85
Tropicanan Airspace
Approximately 0800 hours, local time.
Damascus Steele was gazing out the window at the jungle below. Next to him, Adriana flipped through an issue of Covert Operator Monthly with a slightly uninterested expression on her face. On the opposite side of the aisle, Hasan (who had finally removed his helmet and stowed it with the rest of
his gear in the back of the plane) snored loudly while Hanton simply tried to ignore him. In the row behind them, Boyd sat with his cap pulled down over his eyes, making it impossible to tell if he was awake or not. A small ding sounded as the SOF pilot came onto the intercom. "Alright, folks, we're at 2,500 feet. It looks like we'll be beginning our approach to San Cajetan in just a minute, so keep those seatbelts fastened and-" The sound of a frantic beeping in the cockpit cut him off. The copilot shouted an expletive. "Missile launch detected! Break right!" In the panic, nobody remembered to switch off the intercom.
**Pilot rolls a 03!**
**SA-2 SAM rolls a 64!**
The plane seemed to shake as the missile slammed into the fuselage. The whole aft section of the aircraft was ripped away as the Learjet took a shallow nosedive towards the jungle. "Mayday, mayday, mayday," the pilot shouted, presumably into the radio. "We're-" The fuselage cut through the canopy of trees and slammed into the earth below, sliding for maybe a hundred meters before screeching to a halt.
Steele was the first to speak.
"Well, shit. Everyone alright?"