Brett

But they don't actually have any contact with him, so there's no reason to believe that had any chance of success.

All they're hearing are these sort of garbled transmissions, and they can't make contact with any of them.

So shortly thereafter at 6.20, Taylor is picked up one final time, seemingly preparing the squadron for a crash landing at sea.

He tells them all planes close up tight.

We have to ditch unless landfall.

When the first plane drops below 10 gallons, we all go down together.

And the plan here is we can't wait until the engine runs out because at that point there's no control over this plane.

And these planes were like flying vans, basically.

Remember, what are they made to do?

To fly low over the ocean, right into enemy fire, and drop a torpedo.

So they're heavily armored.

They're not that fast.

They're basically tanks that fly.

Heavy.

So if you run out of gas, things go on straight down.

There's no gliding gently.

into the ocean so it's basically once we get down to basically no gas before the engine shut off we're all going to dish together because once again we have to stay together if we stay together more likely we'll be seen more likely we can get life rafts together more likely we'll survive and so that's his plan

And Taylor had actually ditched three prior times and survived all three.

So he's ready to do that.

The issue, though, is the weather is getting worse and worse.