Screams tore through the passenger cabin as the Boeing 747 shook violently in the middle of the night storm. Red emergency lights flashed endlessly, luggage crashed from overhead compartments, children cried in terror, and grown adults clung to their seats, praying. In that moment of chaos, no one realized that the most dangerous thing wasn’t the turbulence outside the aircraft— it was the deadly silence inside the cockpit. The captain had collapsed. The co-pilot was panicking, unable to stabili