Shadows of War (2011)
“The hillside was coming up fast.
“Pull up on the wheel,” said Ky Kieu. “Pull with me!”
Mara grabbed the yoke—it looked like a small, slightly squeezed steering wheel—and tried to yank it toward her, mimicking what Ky Kieu was doing. It was like pulling the back bumper of a cement mixer—the pressure against them was immense.
“What’s wrong with this?” she said.
“Pull!” yelled Ky Kieu.
Mara put her right leg up against the instrument panel, using it as leverage. The wheel barely budged. She pulled her left foot up and put it against the other side, pushing with all her might.
Treetops loomed in the windscreen.
Goddamn, she thought. What a place to die.
“Hold on!” yelled Kieu, adding a string of curses in Vietnamese.
The bottom of the fuselage slapped into the very top of one of the trees, which clawed at the plane like a cat raking its nails on a bird taking flight. There was a loud clunk behind them. The plane shook.
Then the sky in front of them cleared. They’d gone over the summit of ...the mountain.MoreLess
“Pull up on the wheel,” said Ky Kieu. “Pull with me!”
Mara grabbed the yoke—it looked like a small, slightly squeezed steering wheel—and tried to yank it toward her, mimicking what Ky Kieu was doing. It was like pulling the back bumper of a cement mixer—the pressure against them was immense.
“What’s wrong with this?” she said.
“Pull!” yelled Ky Kieu.
Mara put her right leg up against the instrument panel, using it as leverage. The wheel barely budged. She pulled her left foot up and put it against the other side, pushing with all her might.
Treetops loomed in the windscreen.
Goddamn, she thought. What a place to die.
“Hold on!” yelled Kieu, adding a string of curses in Vietnamese.
The bottom of the fuselage slapped into the very top of one of the trees, which clawed at the plane like a cat raking its nails on a bird taking flight. There was a loud clunk behind them. The plane shook.
Then the sky in front of them cleared. They’d gone over the summit of ...the mountain.MoreLess
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