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It's just before sunset at the airport in Luanda, Angola, May 25th, 2003 You are Ben Padilla, aircraft mechanic and flight engineer with two kids and a fiance back in South Florida. You are climbing aboard of Boeing 727 that you and a crew of Angolan mechanics have been working on for a couple of weeks.

With you today is a helper you hired recently, a man from the Republic of Congo. The plane used to fly for American Airlines. Later it was leased to a company that hauled diesel for diamond mines. Then the deal fell apart. By the fall of 2002, it was a junker, worth only the price of its engines. It's been sitting at the airport for more than a year, piling up fees that nobody pays. The man who sold it wants it back, so he hires you to pay off the fines, find mechanics and fix it up and get it flying. Clearly you were successful because suddenly the plane begins to roll. Nobody in the cockpit talks to the tower, and a 727 needs three trained crew, a pilot, first officer and engineer. You hold a private pilot's license, but you aren't licensed to fly a 727, and the other man has no flight skills. Plane taxies erratically onto a runway, lights off, transponder off, takes off to the southwest, out over the Atlantic Ocean, and is gone.

The search that follows is frantic. 20 months after September 11th, American officials say they have to stay open to the possibility of terrorism. Intelligence sources say the plane could be a flying bomb. The State Department sends a message to every American embassy in Africa. Alert aviation officials that an airliner has been stolen. The commander of US forces in the Horn of Africa hears about it through the intelligence network. And Central Command weighs moving fighter jets to Djibouti on the Red Sea. The FBI looks for it. The CIA looks for it. Homeland Security looks for it. Your sister looks for it and for you. But you and the plane are never found.

Theories abound. You crashed in the Atlantic Ocean soon after takeoff. You crashed on some remote mountainside. The Angolan Air Defense shot it down with a missile and never said anything about it. It went north and vanished near Kinshasa. It was taken apart for parts in Burundi. A mysterious third man was aboard and it was he who flew the plane. US officials tell reporters they believe it was you who flew the plane. They tell your family you are a victim. Nobody can say which is true.