Scattered Eagle Leg 1

Leg 1 — LGKP → LGKS Karpathos, Greece → Kassos, Greece

An opening search sector across isolated Aegean islands after emergency locator signals are detected southwest of Karpathos.

The Last Transmission

The squadron disappeared just before midnight.

Eight aircraft entered the storm front.

Only fragments came back out.

Inside the operations room at Karpathos Airport, radar screens replayed the final moments repeatedly — scattered transponder returns dissolving across the Aegean Sea beneath violent weather systems and electronic interference.

Nobody knew how many crews survived.

Only that emergency beacons had begun activating shortly before dawn.

Your aircraft launched into gray morning skies over the southern Greek islands while rescue coordinators triangulated weak signals drifting through static-filled frequencies.

The sea below looked calm now.

Almost innocent.

But debris fields had already been sighted offshore.

Burned fuel streaks still floated across parts of the water.

Approaching Kassos, naval patrol boats searched the coastlines while helicopters swept nearby cliffs for signs of impact.

Then the first beacon suddenly disappeared.

Not faded.

Terminated.

Someone had turned it off manually.