The storm that hit in late November was a "white-out" that grounded every modern jet in the fleet. But a village three hundred miles north was out of medicine, and the mountain pass was too narrow for anything but a prop plane with a short takeoff and a soul.
"She won't make the climb, Mila," the base commander shouted over the wind. an-45 Mila
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