Alice

So think of your map of the United States.

He's thinking he is west of the bottom of the peninsula, right?

So he wants to make sure he's not over the Gulf of Mexico.

And the operations were not able to triangulate Taylor's flight via IFF at this time.

But of course, if you're looking at a map right now, and if you came from Fort Lauderdale, let's assume that they in fact had gone 91 degrees.

So straight out towards your right.

If you continue to fly north and east, where does that take you?

Further into the Atlantic Ocean, nowhere, no matter what, at that angle, if you are in fact due east of Fort Lauderdale,

you will never run into Florida, right?

So you're beginning to see some math problems here.

So Taylor's been radioing, but if you notice what's been happening, the NAS controls or whoever is on the ground is responding, but Taylor doesn't really respond.

And so again, the control center, they respond and they ask Taylor to broadcast on 4805 kilocycles, but Taylor does not acknowledge this message.

And so the operations radios Taylor again, this time asking him to switch to 3000 kilocycles.

And this is relevant because this is the search and rescue frequency.

So they're catching him on his basically training frequency, being able to talk to all five flights.

And now this is no longer a just giving some pointers here and there.

It's becoming a little bit more desperate.

So they say, change it to the search and rescue frequency so we can better communicate with each other.

But Taylor responds at this point, quote, I cannot switch frequencies.

I must keep my planes intact.