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Because whatever took him is still on this plane. And it’s learning how to fly.

The autopilot disengaged.

The autopilot is still on. The heading shows we’re flying in a perfect 180-mile loop over dense jungle. I’ve checked every door, every closet, every crawlspace in this fuselage. There are 48 passengers, all calm because they don’t know yet. All I told them was to keep their belts fastened due to “mild turbulence.” Airplane- - Apertem os Cintos O Piloto Sumiu -N...

Co-pilot Araújo is strapped into his seat, but his hands are shaking too hard to work the radio. He keeps muttering the same phrase under his breath: “Apertem os cintos. O piloto sumiu.” Because whatever took him is still on this plane

Aircraft: Embraer Legacy 600 Position: Unknown, over the Amazon Basin The autopilot is still on

The plane dropped 2,000 feet before I grabbed the yoke.

But there is no pilot to verify. Only an empty lavatory, a ticking watch, and a message that keeps reappearing on every screen in the cockpit: