Alice

That's a really good tie-in, actually.

You kind of explained it there.

But every time I get to this part of the timeline, I'm like, they can all hear this and they can all hear 3000.

Why don't they just all switch together?

Like so much of this could be different if they would have all just switched to 3000.

Because it is, as you can tell, even up to this point, it has not been constant communication with them.

Communication is difficult.

They kind of get spurts and bits of what he's saying.

And that's really interesting to already kind of see that fraying right there, right?

But at 5.24 p.m., Taylor seemed to take the advice of the other pilots and he radioed that Flight 19 would fly west until they hit landfall or ran out of gas.

So whatever was happening back there as they're talking to each other, he says, okay, fine, we will fly west.

I think this is actually really interesting in terms of what was being said to him because he's so convinced and he must be completely turned around at this point.

All they see is water, right?

They don't have any landmarks.

And once he's convinced, this has been hours now since he's convinced that he's been flying in the opposite direction.

Now they're going to fly finally into the sun.

Like Brett said, the peninsula is huge.

You're supposed to be able to hit it just about anywhere if you fly west.

So at 6.04, Taylor made a decision that would actually doom the entire squadron.

So even though he took the advice of flying west about 30 minutes earlier, he actually concludes that, you know what, we didn't go far enough east.