Brett

Remember, it hasn't been that long.

At 345, when this call comes in, it's only an hour and 35 minutes after they took off.

And 30 minutes of that was taken up doing the bombing run.

So they've only been flying for about an hour.

So it doesn't even seem like it's possible they could have been in the Florida Keys at this point.

But he doesn't know that.

So he says.

to Taylor, fly north, keep the setting sun visible to the west on your left wing.

Now imagine why you would do this.

If you think you're over the Florida Keys, which is south and west of where he took off from, if you fly straight north and you got the sun, the setting sun, directly to your left, that's west, you're going to hit Florida.

Because of the way the peninsula comes down, it comes down at an angle.

And if you're over the Keys and you fly due north, you will hit Florida.

So that is sort of the obvious thing to say to him.

If you're where you think you are, fly north.

You're going to be good.

That's what he tells him.

Now, at this point, the Fort Lauderdale folks, the Naval Air Station down there, you know, they realize something weird's going on here.

And so they start trying to communicate with Taylor.

And they're asking him if his plane is equipped with a standard YG IFF transmitter, IFF friend or foe transmitter, so they could triangulate his position.

But Taylor didn't respond.