Alice

So we have to turn around again, and we may just as well turn around and go east again.

So the lights were being lit at air stations and on ships up and down the Florida coast at this point because they are hoping that as it's getting darker, all of these lights lighting up the coast of Florida will guide these men home because it's huge.

You've got to see it, right?

Especially in the dark.

So everyone is turning on their lights.

But Taylor decides to fly east.

If you're looking at a map, you know that flying east, if they had flown east to begin with from Fort Lauderdale, is only driving them further away from the coast.

There's going to be a point, and this is probably the point right here, where they're not going to have enough gas, even if they corrected course immediately and went back west.

So around the same time, operations was able to calculate a rough estimate of Flight 19's coordinates.

They estimated them to be about 100 miles of 29 degrees north latitude and 79 degrees west longitude.

In other words, well north of the Bahamas and roughly east of Daytona Beach, Florida.

Not where they should have been.

Exactly where they would have been based on where they were flying.

They had not been flying in the wrong direction.

They were not in the Gulf of Mexico.

They were not over the Florida Keys.

But by this point, they have flown so far out east that Flight 19's radio transmissions were becoming increasingly faint and rescue operations could no longer reach them.

Though they could still pick up some of the garbled transmissions from the squadron from time to time.

They just couldn't communicate to them to tell them, hey, we know where you are.

This is what you need to do to get home.