"Dr. Red, I need your help." As soon as he saw the two of them, Hodgner greeted Red.

Watching the two enter a conference room, Jack walked into the next room and saw Rosie sitting inside, with a set of listening devices on the table.

He picked up a headset and put it on, and could clearly hear the conversation next door.

Hodchner and Reed's voices were easy to distinguish, and the other, somewhat old, unfamiliar voice was probably Petosky, who claimed to have seen the missile's trajectory.

"Edgewood Arsenal, what's going on there?" Petoski asked.

Without hesitation, Red replied, "From 1955 to 1975, the Federal Army conducted nerve agent research on unwitting servicemen. ”

Petoski then asked another question, "Tuskegee?" ”

"From 1932 to 1972, the Ministry of Public Health conducted syphilis experiments on 399 black people in Tuskegee for 40 years, and the same thing happened in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948."

Rhett's answer was clearly pleasing to Petoski, when Hodchner's voice came through the headphones, "Mr. Petosky, I'm starting to lose patience. ”

"Last question, San Francisco?" Petoski hurriedly said.

Operation Ocean Droplets, in which the Navy used balloons to release tens of thousands of gallons of aerosols mixed with Serratia marcescens, lasted for a week.

This behavior not only led to the development of urinary tract infections in many people, but also later changed the microbial structure of the soil throughout California. Red replied.

"You passed, I can't trust that woman just now." Petoski seemed relieved.

"Is it because she's wearing a military uniform?" Hodchner asked. ”

"Yes, it was the army that shot down that plane." Petoski whispered mysteriously.

"It's like TWA Flight 800 and United Airlines Flight 93, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17."

"Thank you for your time, sir." Hodgner stood up, a little disappointed, he had expected to extract some valuable information from this mouth, but the conspiracy theories he had concocted out of thin air would only delay the investigation.

TWA Flight 800 was a crash over Long Island, New York, in 1996, when numerous witnesses reported seeing a white plume of smoke connected to the plane explosion.

At that time, the federal navy happened to be conducting exercises near the crash site, which led to the listing of "important suspects".

The United Airlines 93 was the fourth plane hijacked in 911 and the only one that failed to reach its intended impact target as the terrorists had hoped.

The official theory is that the terrorists crashed the plane prematurely because of the passengers' resistance, but more people believe that the plane was shot down by the military because it was aimed at the Capitol.

As for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the plane was shot down by a "Beech" anti-aircraft missile in 2014.

"Wait." Petoski hurriedly said, "I didn't make it up, I saw armed men wandering in the woods." ”

There was the sound of chairs dragging next door, and Hodgner sat back down, "Please elaborate." ”

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"If someone did use an anti-aircraft missile, given the inertia of the plane when it fell, then they were really in the vicinity of Petroski's house, and the range we were looking for was about six miles."

Red said, drawing a circle around the map with his pen.

"Didn't you say that the airliner was too high for man-portable anti-aircraft missiles to threaten it?"

Jack scratched his head in confusion, hadn't everyone denied this possibility before, he didn't understand why he had to get together in a serious way to discuss it again.

"Yes, even the latest Stinger is less than 20,000 feet high, and large anti-aircraft missiles like the Beech, although they are everywhere on the international market, if they flow into the country, the CIA cannot be unaware. ”

Rosie nodded in agreement with Jack.

"However, the airliner had already deviated from the established course at that time and was lowering altitude, and we do not yet know what caused this to happen to the airliner, but what if it was forced?"

Red came up with his hypothesis.

"You mean to say that there may have been suicide attackers on the plane? How do they work together? Hodchner probably understood.

"After 911, both airlines and airports increased their efforts to check the cargo hold of passenger planes, and perhaps the attackers did not find a way to bring explosives on the plane, so they chose this cumbersome way.

They created a suitable reason for the forced landing at the right time, so that the plane changed course and prepared to lower the altitude for a forced landing. ”

Red's hypothesis, while far-fetched, does not seem entirely impossible.

"Perhaps it was because of this that the plane was shut down by ACARS and lost contact for 13 minutes." Rosie also felt that there seemed to be some truth.

"Yes, if there is a suicide or hijacker, then the unknown militants on the ground are accomplices, and we need to look for 'militias' or similar groups that are active in the vicinity."

Hodgner picked up the phone and dialed Garcia.

Colorado is also a vast and sparsely populated state, with a population of just over 5 million and spread over an area of 270,000 square kilometers.

Especially near Durango, where they are now located, there is drought and little rain around, there are large areas of Gobi, and there is not a single town for dozens of kilometers.

Therefore, the occurrence of the air crash did not cause any casualties on the ground, but it also caused trouble for the identification of the suspects.

"So what's the filter? Is there a priority? Garcia asked over the phone.

"First of all, there is a military background, and the suspect needs to have at least the ability to operate man-portable anti-aircraft missiles, and secondly, of course, those guys who believe that suicide can go to heaven and enjoy 72 delicious raisins."

Jack replied as he should, and the rest of the group looked at each other in agreement.

Of course, this is just a conjecture of Rhett, and it is impossible to put everyone's energy into it, and the other investigations are still going on simultaneously.

People in the military and the NTSB are screening and digging deeper into the identities of plane passengers and flight attendants, beliefs, everyday statements on social media, and even loved ones and everyday social circles.

It has been less than 12 hours since the crash happened, and everyone is trying to race against time.

Jiejie and Emily, who were in the hospital, were the first to send back the message that the co-pilot Frank Canfors, who had undergone surgery, had woken up from anesthesia.

But as expected, Frank Canfors was not very conscious, and Jiejie only had time to communicate with him for less than ten minutes.

According to the co-pilot's unclear recollection, he and the captain Jerry Vermeyer seemed to have had an argument before the plane crash, and he can't remember exactly what happened for the time being.

However, the co-pilot confirmed two things, first, it was the ACARS he turned off, and second, the plane did have longitudinal turbulence before the accident.

(End of chapter)