"Not just betting about the plane, I don't think, because that would just be rolled back.  Even trading on the airline, the plane manufacturer, or the insurer, seems like it could be mostly rolled back, and like there'd be only a few suspects for trades that diverted and ended up impossible to untangle.  Also, one of the last pieces of news we got from the cockpit was that Exception Handling thought our plane had not totally lost comms, which would have reduced market interest and liquidity by a lot, and the number of distracting-participants to present a crowd for the real criminal to lose themselves in... or mostly, there wouldn't have been much market movement at all, if our plane didn't vanish."

"So it wasn't about trading on direct alarm presented by a lost plane.  They didn't maximize that alarm, they minimized it, maybe so we wouldn't get the Exception Handling supersonic escort we were expecting to show up.  The part where that made us look like we'd been isekaied was a distractor."

"The main thing they wanted... was for our plane to not be in communication with Civilization, and for the rest of Civilization to not think this was all that suspicious."

"I am not instantly seeing where to take it from there... I can go on trying to talk faster than I can really think... a CEO on board our flight, and somebody steering a company to make a really bad decision that the CEO would have overruled if they'd been in contact.  The isekai thing could be about some sort of personal connection with that CEO, wanting to prank them personally.  Doesn't really fit, it feels like it'd be too obvious afterward what'd happened, and who'd done it.  There ought to be easier ways to take a CEO out of contact while their company makes a stupid decision."

"Okay, that was my brain's first stupid idea, if you want a second stupid idea I can go on thinking."

"Not just betting about the plane, I don't think, because that would just be rolled back.  Even trading on the airline, the plane manufacturer, or the insurer, seems like it could be mostly rolled back, and like there'd be only a few suspects for trades that diverted and ended up impossible to untangle.  Also, one of the last pieces of news we got from the cockpit was that Exception Handling thought our plane had not totally lost comms, which would have reduced market interest and liquidity by a lot, and the number of distracting-participants to present a crowd for the real criminal to lose themselves in... or mostly, there wouldn't have been much market movement at all, if our plane didn't vanish."

"So it wasn't about trading on direct alarm presented by a lost plane.  They didn't maximize that alarm, they minimized it, maybe so we wouldn't get the Exception Handling supersonic escort we were expecting to show up.  The part where that made us look like we'd been isekaied was a distractor."

"The main thing they wanted... was for our plane to not be in communication with Civilization, and for the rest of Civilization to not think this was all that suspicious."

"I am not instantly seeing where to take it from there... I can go on trying to talk faster than I can really think... a CEO on board our flight, and somebody steering a company to make a really bad decision that the CEO would have overruled if they'd been in contact.  The isekai thing could be about some sort of personal connection with that CEO, wanting to prank them personally.  Doesn't really fit, it feels like it'd be too obvious afterward what'd happened, and who'd done it.  There ought to be easier ways to take a CEO out of contact while their company makes a stupid decision."

"Okay, that was my brain's first stupid idea, if you want a second stupid idea it's not coming as easily but I can go on thinking."

"Not just betting about the plane, I don't think, because that would just be rolled back.  Even trading on the airline, the plane manufacturer, or the insurer, seems like it could be mostly rolled back, and like there'd be only a few suspects for trades that diverted and ended up impossible to untangle.  Also, one of the last pieces of news we got from the cockpit was that Exception Handling thought our plane had not totally lost comms, which would have reduced market interest and liquidity by a lot, with few distracting-participants to present a crowd for the real criminal to lose themselves in... or mostly, there wouldn't have been much market movement at all, if our plane didn't vanish."

"So it wasn't about trading on direct alarm presented by a lost plane.  They didn't maximize that alarm, they minimized it, maybe so we wouldn't get the Exception Handling supersonic escort we were expecting to show up.  The part where that made us look like we'd been isekaied was a distractor."

"The main thing they wanted... was for our plane to not be in communication with Civilization, and for the rest of Civilization to not think this was all that suspicious."

"I am not instantly seeing where to take it from there... I can go on trying to talk faster than I can really think... a CEO on board our flight, and somebody steering a company to make a really bad decision that the CEO would have overruled if they'd been in contact.  The isekai thing could be about some sort of personal connection with that CEO, wanting to prank them personally.  Doesn't really fit, it feels like it'd be too obvious afterward what'd happened, and who'd done it.  There ought to be easier ways to take a CEO out of contact while their company makes a stupid decision."

"Okay, that was my brain's first stupid idea, if you want a second stupid idea it's not coming as easily but I can go on thinking."