Chapter 96 Air Force No. 1
Luke moved with ease to his last seat at the rear of the cabin.
With nothing to do, Luke recalled the plan and began to review it and find loopholes.
The plane took off slowly and soon reached an altitude of 10,000 meters.
But not long after, President Marshall's assistant found Luke.
"Agent Dutton, the President wishes to see you."
Luke opened his eyes, stood up and followed the assistant to the president's private reception room.
Air Force One is a converted Boeing 747 passenger aircraft.
Before the Airbus A380, it was the world's largest civil passenger aircraft.
It is said to have three floors of cabins, but in fact there are only two and a half floors.
The top floor of Air Force One is the workroom and rest room for pilots and Air Force liaison officers.
The bottom floor is the cargo hold and storage compartment, and only the middle floor is the personnel compartment.
But even so the design is large enough.
The president has an office, lounge, entertainment room, etc. here, in addition to meeting rooms.
In fact, Luke was also quite interested in the 747, but it is indeed not as big as the Airbus A380.
The Airbus A380 really has three floors, not two and a half floors like the 747.
But the company already has shares in Boeing, and increased its holdings significantly when it acquired McDonnell Douglas.
So if Luke wanted a bigger private jet, he had no choice but to choose the Boeing 747.
When we arrived at the president's lounge, President Marshall and his family of three were all there.
When I came in, President Marshall was still talking to First Lady Grace Marshall and Princess Alice Marshall about Luke's situation in Moscow.
Luke first greeted everyone politely.
President Marshall smiled and waved to him.
"Come on in, Luke. Just call me James. Don't be so formal."
After sitting down, President Marshall asked Luke with a smile.
"I heard you had a lot of fun in Moscow, and you even went to Greece?"
Luke shrugged and said:
"The Russians are so welcoming and they even gave me a girlfriend. I have to show some American style, right?"
Marshall smiled and pointed at Luke, then said to Grace beside him:
“This guy saved half of Moscow’s high-end restaurants.”
Next, Luke talked to the President's family about the beautiful scenery and delicious food in Moscow.
Finally, we also talked about Shirley’s disappearance.
The President's family admired Luke for his meticulous thinking and process of solving the case.
Seeing that they had almost finished talking, Luke ended the topic.
At this time, Air Force One had already entered Germany.
The destination was Ramstein Air Base.
This place is near the German-French border and has a famous football team, Kaiserslautern.
Luke left the presidential lounge. The lights in the cabin were dim and most people were sleeping in their seats.
Returning to his seat, Luke felt a little thirsty.
After all, there are no flight attendants on Air Force One.
So he asked the president's assistant, and Luke went to the back of the plane to find something to drink.
But he found nothing he wanted to drink, and many of them had been opened.
After Luke asked the staff again, he quietly went to the bottom floor of the plane.
There is a refrigerator here, specially for storing wine and beverages.
Luke was thinking about how he couldn't even get a glass of water in President Marshall's lounge.
Immediately afterwards, gunshots were heard in the crew cabin.
Ward Fake?
Luke had no choice but to hide in the back of the luggage compartment with a bottle of champagne.
The gunfire was intense, with gunshots and screams coming one after another.
I quietly opened the champagne and took a sip. Not bad, another orderly point to be recorded.
This gilded journey did not yield any gains in terms of skill progress or order points.
But Angelica was a pleasant surprise, but it was a pity that this arrangement would not take effect until a long time later.
Just now when he was taking a break, Luke wanted to go back and find some serious cases to restore some order.
The golden apple with a question mark smells really good...
Luke did not carry any weapons with him when he boarded Air Force One.
He is not a Secret Service agent, and even the FBI cannot carry weapons on Air Force One.
So when he boarded the plane in Moscow, he put all his visible weapons in his luggage bag.
At this moment, it was lying quietly in the luggage compartment in front of Luke.
The time came before Air Force One took off.
Seven reporters from Moscow media came under Air Force One.
The presidential assistant has already made arrangements and all we need to do is verify our identity and pass security before we can board the plane.
They were going to follow Air Force One and interview President Marshall about some aspects of his daily life.
He will also attend President Marshall's press conference in Germany and conduct a live interview with President Marshall.
The presidential assistant briefly showed them around Air Force One, and then they were asked to return to their seats by the Secret Service security chief.
But just as Luke finished chatting with President Marshall and ran to the lower level to secretly find some wine, a sudden change occurred in the crew cabin.
I don't know who threw a smoke bomb into the cabin.
So these Moscow journalists opened their weapons cabinets and began indiscriminate attacks.
The Secret Service agents were caught off guard.
They only had pistols with them, while the seven gangsters took MP5s from the weapons cabinet.
This difference in firepower immediately put the Secret Service agents at a disadvantage.
The pilot and the Air Force liaison technician were on the third floor. After hearing the gunshots, they decisively closed the pilot's cabin door.
And promptly informed that Air Force One was now in an emergency.
Luke, who was on the lower floor, took a big sip of champagne to calm himself down and prepared to look for his luggage bag.
Although there are many opportunities to show off, there are very few opportunities to show off in front of the president.
It's just the right time.
Just as Luke was about to start rummaging through the luggage, he saw two Secret Service agents bringing President Marshall to the baggage compartment.
The two men directly stuffed President Marshall into the emergency escape capsule and activated the emergency escape device.
Just as Luke was about to show up, the two agents were killed by the terrorists.
The escape pod opened.
The terrorist was furious at the closed escape pod, and after venting his anger for a while, he returned to the crew cabin.
He didn't see Luke.
At the first moment of the incident, the Marine Corps sent a helicopter to pick up Vice President Katherine Bennett to the White House to take charge of the situation.
The White House has been under martial law, and generals from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and others have also arrived at the White House one after another.
Ramstein Air Base also dispatched several F-15Cs to meet Air Force One.
But the pilot of Air Force One was calm and composed, and lowered the plane in an orderly manner, preparing to land at Ramstein Air Force Base.
They are the best large aircraft pilots in the US Air Force, and the captain has the rank of colonel.
This is the highest rank among Air Force pilots who can fly aircraft. The next level up is one-star brigadier general.
At this time, the terrorists had already taken control of the crew cabin and drove everyone to the conference room.
Air Force One is rapidly descending.
The terrorists took the Air Force liaison officer outside the cockpit hostage, but they were unable to open the cockpit door.
This door is bulletproof.
So they got a small piece of explosives from somewhere and blew open the hatch.
Air Force One has landed and is taxiing on the runway.
The terrorists pointed guns at the pilots and ordered them to pull the plane up.
The two heroic pilots refused the terrorists' demands and pulled the brakes.
Just as they were about to shut down the engine, the terrorists became angry and shot and killed the two pilots.
Surprisingly, one of the terrorists could fly a plane.
At the critical moment, the terrorist pulled the plane up again.
And after Luke witnessed all this, he sighed.
I thought, my chance to show off in front of the president is gone...
