Then a red light blinked on the panel. Noah saw it at the same time Jamie did. “Jamie…?” “Yeah, I see it,” Jamie said, already tapping through the system readouts. “Rudder actuator’s not responding. Manual override’s… failing.”
Noah pressed on the pedals. No resistance. Just dead weight. “We’ve lost rudder control,” he said, the calm in his voice at odds with the rising tension in the cabin. Jamie leaned forward, scanning instruments. “We can’t land like this. Even light crosswinds could spin us out. Flip us.”