"The Lost Flight" Part 5

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As predicted the snow had arrived and it was coming down too heavily to launch search helicopters.

The signal from Illya’s communicator was growing weaker, preventing them from pinpointing the exact location. The weather wasn’t helping either the techs told Solo, as the atmospheric conditions were somehow affecting the signal as well.

Once the approximate location was determined, it was in three hundred mile radius. Napoleon knew there was a big problem besides the size of the search area as it was located in Soviet territory, somewhere in the Karelian Isthmus. He was aware that territory to be very remote and sparsely populted but that wasn't going to make a rescue any easier...that's if passengers of the missing jet were still alive.

Even though the Soviet Union was a member nation of U.N.C.L.E. there was a good possibility they’d shoot down any plane or chopper violating their airspace. He wondered if that was what had happened to the Learjet.

Alexander Waverly’s already worried brow furrowed at this news.

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