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“I mean, it’s a beautiful day here atop the mountains of Colorado,” Mike continued.
Miranda didn’t need further proof that weather was not a factor in the crash. The crash was deliberate. It was the first deliberate military crash since Captain Craig Button had committed suicide-by-pilot with an A-10 Thunderbolt II in 1997. Though since no one had actually died during this crash…
“We have a picnic and have had a fire,” Mike waved a hand to indicate the scorched mountaintop. “We could tell ghost stories—appropriate, as thirteen bodies were found here even if they didn’t die here.”
“We do have a shattered plane to investigate,” but she didn’t sound convincing even to herself.
“But if it was deliberately crashed?” Holly left the question dangling.
“Not much point except as a scientif
