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still get in if we decide to?” Gray asked Malik.
    The man rose and leaned close to Gray’s ear and whispered, “Yes.  He has a manual latch but keying in a special code will override the latch.”
    “I don’t think option two is now relevant because I don’t think we could reach a population center in less than fifteen minutes,” Gray said.  He scanned the faces around him and settled on Anna’s for a moment.  When he spoke it was aloud to everyone.  “It seems our choices are to do nothing and hope we are being taken hostage for ransom, or attack and try to take back control of the aircraft.  We have to make a decision in the next few minutes or it will all be moot.  The decision is to remain passive or attack.”  He turned and whispered to Malik.  “Should we do it democratically?  You have the code.  If we vote to attack will you give us the code?”
    The man sighed heavily and said aloud, “Yes, and I hope the majority vote is also yours.”
    “ Thank you.”
    Gray pulled out his phone and checked the time.  “ Five minutes,” he said loudly.  “Take five minutes and we will vote.”  He wiped a hand over his face and walked back into business class and went to a right hand window.  The sun had pushed halfway above the horizon and turned the sea below to gold.  The aircraft was frighteningly close to the ocean’s surface and the waves in the near distance flashed by in a blur.  They were going very very fast.  In the distance the coming morning still looked so beautiful and peaceful.  He plopped down into a seat and leaned his head back.
    Anna was standing in the aisle.  “May I join you?”
    He smiled and held out a hand.  She took it in both of hers and sat. She brought her hands and his to her forehead.  He felt tears dripping onto his forearm and leaned forward and kissed the top or her head.  She stretched closer and laid her head onto his chest.
    “If we survive this, I want you to ask me why I was crying,” she said through the tears.
    “That is an odd request, Anna.  But all right, I promise.”
    “ Thank you.  How will you vote?”
    “I don’t have all the information I want t o make a vote.  I will explain why to the others and then I may abstain.”
    “Why?”
    “I don’t know if Bayani has the plane on autopilot.  If not, we are so close to the water it will only take a slight bump of the control wheel to send us into the ocean.  At this speed the plane will disintegrate. I should have explained that earlier.”
    Anna sniffled.  “People have probably___”
     
    When Haatim first visited the island and the abandoned airstrip, he put his mind to what security was required to keep infidel eyes from seeing the repair work the followers would perform on the runway and especially from seeing the landing, loading and take off of whatever airliner they succeeded in capturing.  In addition, if Bayani Isagani betrayed his family and spoke to the authorities, some nation’s naval vessel was bound to arrive at the island.  Anti-shipping mines were possibly the answer to both security problems.
    According to the man who brought word of the island to Haatim, few fishermen visited the area because it was no better fishing than areas closer to the inhabited islands and it was three hundred kilometers from any major shipping lane, all good news.  What the fisherman said that worried Haatim was that an island sixty five kilometers to the south was used by a band of pirates as a base.  On the next trip to the island and after the auto cannon was mounted on the Zaafir, Haatim paid a visit to the pirates of the island to the south.  Dawoud asked Haatim to raise the flag of the Abu Sayyaf to give his men courage.  Haatim refused to fly the flag under normal circumstances as it would draw unwelcome attention and outright hostility from certain nations’ navies.  For this mission with the possibility of conflict so high, Haatim approved raising of the flag.
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