Chapter 461

When Dycke was told about Harold and Callie's situation, he put his fleet of aircraft into action. Payne's aircraft would have solved their problems, but it had been sent east as part of the plan to allow Payne and him to stay in Arizona for a two-week vacation. He had a smaller jet fly them from Phoenix to San Diego, accompanied by four FBI agents. One of his company's Gulfstream 650's took them from San Diego to Christchurch, New Zealand 7000 miles away.

He ran into a problem getting them from New Zealand, to the American Facility at McMurdo Sound. The Air Forces' C-17's and LC-130 aircraft that flew resupply missions to McMurdo Research Station, Antarctica were logged as full for the next five weeks. He called a friend in the White House, who spoke to the President on his behalf.

Soon thereafter, the President's chief of staff, Richard Axel, called General Brent Russell. He was in charge of the 13th Expeditionary Group, which ran &qu