The Madness of the Machine

Imagine a world in which technology is not only clever, but independent. It can think for itself. An artificial intelligence, manufactured to aid humanities' ailing natural one. Got it? Good. Now what if these machines could feel pain? And share it? But only with their fellow robots...

When an plane's engine is mortally damaged, it doesn't bring down the plane - there's backup engines. But the planes AI is in excruciating pain as the engine erupts into flames. It can't bear the agony, and shares it with the only other thing which can hear it... the pilot, driving him insane. He stops the plane, holds the passengers hostage, and threatens to plunge the the hovering craft into the city below.

This is the story of human reaction to a machine's madness.