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“Where’s Jon?”
Miranda looked around but didn’t see him.
In moments everyone was looking, which wasn’t terribly constructive. There was not very much to see.
Then she recalled that he hadn’t been on the Black Hawk for the short jaunt from JBLM to SeaTac’s FedEx terminal either.
Still everyone was looking around.
The inside of the FedEx Boeing 767-300ERF was cavernous. Stripped to the hull, only a steel deck divided the long tube of the airfreighter’s fuselage into upper and lower cargo storage. The upper two-thirds of the hull made a very empty tube.
The hull’s interior was finished with white-painted aluminum. The eighteen hundred square feet of cargo deck was interrupted only by the tracks of the automated cargo handling system that could safely transport twenty-four containers
