How to Date an Android

How to Date an Android, Chapter 16 Part B (revised! & Announcement!)

Also, it actually looked like in their records that the company B, that ran the air transportation had records of the Company A groups flying to 2 islands, not 1, in that loose archipelago island chain. But there were only records for 1 branch office on the first island, and no records of any kind for the second island location that was further out. And they'd been told not to talk about site B. There wasn't even records of a building being there for the second island site, yet when they used certain software programs for mapping, lydar, etc there appeared to be a box like structure resembling a big tall building there.

"We should ask them what site B is," the first guy said.

"Are you kidding? Don't do that. Its trouble."

"Why is it trouble?"

"Are you kidding? Big businesses like this sometimes do military contracts and research. If they don't tell you about something you don't want to surprise them. Keep them happy and the checks keep coming in. Trust me, avoid asking about anything that looks controversial. Instead let's look at something else to look into first. And be careful what you ask them. People like this in these big companies if they get up on the wrong side of the bed, heads roll," the more experienced operator told the other.

"Are you saying they are doing military contracts?"

"No. What I'm saying is there's some times where you're better off to not kick up a hornet's nest. You get it?"

"OK... I'll trust you on this. I don't want trouble."

This complicated the search immensely that they now had so many weird things going on. It left blind spots in their ability to search for the downed helicopter. So they weren't sure where to start since they couldn't reach any of the staff connected to the site.

But the main office headquarters in mainland had said there was a cultural festival going on in the land, and that that was why everything was shut down.

"Ah... a local holiday. That explains it," the one investigator said after they got off the phone.

"Oh. I forgot about that. Our DEI training seminar did mention we should be extra careful of not offending any locals with their customs," the other said.

"If there's a festival maybe there's some cute island girls to rescue," the one drone investigator had said.

"OH! Good idea. We might have to find a reason to make this job last more than just 2 days as originally planned."

"Yes. We can say there was emergency maintenance. I like it."

"OK. Focus. Let's work now. I want to work hard earlier in the day so we can play hard."

"Sure. So I have an idea of where to start looking for this missing chopper..."

They'd gone into the automated flight history logs that were on the company's server that ran the helicopter contracts for this country. And they'd been able to find the last known ping of its locator beacon very quickly.

The original flight log looked stale and boring with no drama. It seemed strange that it would go down in this location. Yet this is where they'd found the helicopter's remains. It seemed like there would be red flags for a crash like this but there weren't any. It was in fact, the perfect scenario for not having any accidents. The helicopter was only 2 years old, and had perfect records on maintenance and performance. It was an aircraft model that was at the top of its safety and performance records also, with zero risk categories. The driver-less program and software running the helicopters was also perfect and was known for stability and avoiding wrecks also.

When they were looking at the data for the company on this crash it didn't make sense.

So why the crash?