Chapter 69
6:45 PM CEST Day two of 1260 Somewhere over the Mediterranean
I was dreaming when I felt my arm being shaken. While I tried to shake off the remnants of sleep, I heard Veronica saying, “Jack you need to wake up. You need to wake up now.” As I slowly focused, she said, “Look out the window Jack.”
I squinted as I looked out the small windows of the aircraft. I could see the fighter jets off the wing and asked, “Both sides?”
She said, “Yes.”
“Israeli?”
“Yes.”
“What do they want?”
“They want us to land at Ben Gurion Airport and any deviation of course will be considered evasive and we will be shot down.”
“Okay, so that does not leave us with a whole lot of choice does it? Tell the pilot to do as they say. Also, do we still have phone communication?”
“Yes.”
I reached into my pocket and got Mark Anderson’s card out. I looked at Veronica and said, “I need to talk to Mark before we land.”