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Holly watched reactions as she made the suggestion. But she kept an especially careful eye on Elayne Kasprak as she did so.
Jeremy handed Jon the black box recorders and pulled out his tablet and camera, ready to go.
Mike rolled his eyes at her.
Elayne Kasprak looked actively distressed.
“What about my plane?”
“Oh, we know what brought it down.”
Elayne’s eyes went wide. Just for an instant—a flicker, then gone.
Not surprise.
Worry?
Fear?
“You can tell your boss that it wasn’t the plane’s fault. It appears that the loadmaster failed to safety some of the helicopter’s armament properly. A hard landing apparently fired one of the missiles.”
Miranda and Jon both looked at her in surprise, but they were behind Elayne, so it didn’t matter, as long as Miranda kept quiet.
She was a
