An airliner heads for Alaska with 101 passengers and crew.

Then, somewhere over the Gulf of Alaska,

Flight 293 slams into the icy water below.

Even if all four engines quit,

it just doesn't fall out of the sky.

No bodies were recovered.

Loved ones had no closure and were left to wonder.

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On Soy Arab, by Mitrin Somasandrum, from the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine May 2005 edition.

Although the restaurant was surprisingly dark, it wasn't difficult for me to spot Baines.

He was the only customer.

He was sitting at the far end by the wall wearing his usual pained expression.

If you were to meet Baines and hear him talk, you'd put him down as a new arrival.

In Bangkok for a couple of weeks still getting used to the heat and dust and traffic,

still dazed and irritable from culture shock. But in fact he'd been here and years of agitation for another posting. He didn't like Asia, didn't like the crowds or

the smells, and was seldom found away from the environs of the U.S. Embassy on

Wireless Road. That's why it surprised me he'd wanted to meet here in a gloomy

Indian restaurant on what the ties called Soy Arab. A small noisy lane off

Sukumvit Road that for some reason held most of Bangkok's Arab

and African residents. Not that I minded. Apart from the beer, the only thing I

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