142 Time To Move Out: Part 21 (1/2)
Thursday, 1st of May 2021. An Air Force Base. 2200 Hours. Shaddam and Aveline.
A military base in another state of that country. A place where the contractors sourced the helicopter for their heist. Aveline and Shaddam were walking to the helicopter that was in the middle of an airfield.
”Second Lieutenant Jerran and Second Lieutenant Harrison, everything is set sir,” the mechanic of that helicopter said.
”Thanks, Sergeant, we'll take it from here,” Shaddam said. He was posing under a fake name of Harrison.
”Very well sir,” the sergeant said as he loaded cargo to the helicopter with the other soldiers. They were paletted cargo that contained weaponry and some MRE for the troops in the capital. They wouldn't arrive at the capital though, the would end up in the contractor's hands.
Shaddam and Aveline went inside that Mi-26 and started the engines of that helicopter. The blades of the helicopter started spinning and Aline requested take off from the ATC.
Aveline: ”This is ***-527. Requesting take off. Direction 2-8-5 at altitude of 9,000 meters.”
ATC: ”***-527, permission granted.”
Shaddam pushed the throttle stick and the helicopter immediately gained some distance from the ground. The helicopter flew to the west direction and they immediately commenced their plan.
Shaddam disconnected the radio from the ATC on the AFB and gave instructions to Aveline to search for something. Aveline needed to find the GPS tracker that was placed in that helicopter. They needed that tracker to disappear since their plan would not work If the GPS tracker was still there.
”Aveline, go, don't mess up the helicopter electrical system ok,” Shaddam said as Aveline stood up from the seat with a knife on her hands.
According to the blueprint that Nathan gave to them. The Mil Mi-26 had a tracker placed near the blades of the helicopter. It was accessible from the interior of the helicopter as long as they had a blade to open the panel inside the cargo bay of the helicopter.
”Cables, where is that tracker?” Aveline asked as she was hanging on the ceiling of that helicopter with the help of a rope and some straps.
One wrong cut and Aveline could disable that Russian hardware, but all she needed to find was a small box between those wires that were very messy. As if an elementary school student put them there.
”Smart, retrofitting the entire helicopter fleet with a tracker,” Aveline said as she found that box that needed to be disconnected from the helicopter. She let it dangling around in the ceiling of the cargo bay.
She returned to the helicopter pilot seat and Shaddam asked her whether she had successfully found the tracker or not.
”Yup, I just need to cut it and we'll be home free,” Aveline said as she sat back down on the co-pilot seat.
ATC: ”Radio contact is back. What happened?”
Shaddam: ”Minor communication problems. It will need repair after this flight.”
ATC: ”Solid copy.”
Their plan was simple. They would fake a crash in the middle of a mountain while the other contractors were waiting. The Blackhawks and the container trucks would carry the disassembled helicopters to the planned zone and missions would be complete.
The disassembling of the helicopter wasn't their job so they wouldn't even bother with that, but they would definitely help the others when they drove out of the town.
The rendezvous point was located two hundred kilometers away from the air force base where the helicopter was stolen. It was a safe guess that the SAR team would arrive in more than a day. Meanwhile, the contractors would be standing by on the hill where they would land that helicopter.
”Aveline, talk to Nathan.”
”Copy that,” Aveline switched the radio frequency to the one that Nathan had access to.
Thursday, 1st of May 2021. A hill located near the capital. 2300 Hours.
”Yeah, I hear you loud and clear,” Nathan said from the radio.