Navy Lifts Plane From Ocean Floor, Then They Look Inside

A realization

Further exploration revealed more: wooden supports, old rope, fragments of shelter tucked between trees. These weren’t leftovers from a quick stopover. They were part of something larger—an attempt to live. It hit the group all at once. “It must’ve been them,” the captain said quietly. “The plane’s passengers. They made it here… and they stayed, at least for a time.”