Brett

If I try and get them to change frequencies, I may lose them.

The problem was his radio men could do this on the plane.

It wasn't easy.

It was hard, but they could do it.

But in order for the...

stations to change like if they wanted to change to 4805 from 3000 for their search and rescue their more powerful radios it would take hours an engineer would have to go in there and like change up everything right so it wasn't really possible for them to do so they're telling him do this so we can talk to you and he basically refuses and because he is in command of the flight that's something he can do even if it's not a very smart thing to do in this situation

And this is one of the most interesting things during this entire story.

And it's something that those of us who are civilians, who've never been in the military, have a very difficult time understanding.

And it's the fact that the chain of command here is never broken.

I mean, they're in a situation that is rapidly growing dire.

They're fully fueled planes.

They can fly for a thousand miles on these planes.

There's no way they should have any problem.

At this point, they've only been gone for about...

Two and a half hours, which is about how long the flight was supposed to take.

So it's not critical yet, but it's getting there, right?

People are starting to say, like, look, it's December.

It's almost five.

It's going to get dark.

You know, you really need to do this.