Kate picked the gun up off the floor and pointed it at him. “We’re landing now! Now, damn you! Tell your pilot in there to land!”

Trax took his eyes off the cockpit flight controls and looked back into the passenger seating. “What’s going on back there, Mr. Greenlee? Steve?”

“Everything’s gonna be fine, Trax. Take it around the pattern again. I’ve got everything under control,” Steve said with a worried look.

Kate put the clip back in the gun and pointed it at the pilot. “Land now!”

“Come on, baby, put it down. You’re gonna hurt someone with that thing.”

Steve lunged toward her left hand to knock the gun loose, but it fired into the cockpit instead. The bullet hit Jerry Traxler in the back of the head and he slumped over the controls as the plane began an immediate and rapid descent. Steve rushed to the cockpit, pulled Trax from the pilot’s seat, and fought to gain control of the plane.

“Oh my God!” Kate screamed. “Look what you did!” She ran into the cockpit and sat down in the copilot’s seat.