Yang Yi and his companions boarded the plane, and then, in the upper-class cabin, the Aurora people began to change their clothes.
Each person had a black bag that seemed to bear no name, but the people of Aurora took what must have been their own bags and started to change.
The plane wasn't in a hurry to take off, because the real Flight 176 from Philadelphia to Kyiv would take much longer than from Khartoum.
Yang Yi watched from the adjacent cabin as the Aurora people changed. They wore black combat uniforms, over which they donned black bulletproof vests, followed by black balaclavas, and finally topped with black helmets—in short, they were dressed in black from head to toe.
The guns were all American-style: the rifles were M4s, and the handguns were mostly M9s and M1911s, but there were also a few Glock 17s.