Meanwhile, while the world was still trying to find answers to their questions, two groups besides the world's governments were not only asking questions but also panicking.
The first group was the companies that on the news.
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Toulouse – Airbus HQ
The finance floor at Airbus felt suddenly too small. Airbus was experiencing the same dilemma that McLaren had experienced last week when Liam drove the P1 LM-X around LA.
Screens that had been quietly scrolling manufacturing dashboards and supplier KPIs now pulsed with the same viral footage everyone else had seen — the black A380 lifting off from LAX, the registry bannered across every news tickers. A dozen phones rang at once and analysts stopped typing.
"Is — is that one of ours?" a junior accountant whispered, voice trembling as he dragged the live feed onto the monitor beside his SAP session.
