Brett

Sorry to tell some of you this is round.

So if it's going in a straight line, it's going to go right off into space.

AM radio goes up.

It hits the atmosphere and it goes down.

Right.

So at night when the atmosphere cools and settles, AM radio stations can broadcast much further than

Then FM radio stations, even though they're weaker, typically at night, they get much stronger and you can start hearing radio stations from distant cities.

And then one of the problems that Florida had was at night, Cuban radio stations start coming in and they fill up this.

So you're trying to hear what he's saying and you're hearing like Mamba music, right?

So you can't hear what he's saying because all you can hear is Cuban radio stations.

So they're trying to tell him change to a frequency that is only used for search and rescue.

Then we'll be able to hear you.

The problem with that was all of the planes, the entire flight, their radios are all set to 4805.

Now, they all have radio men whose specific job is.

is to be able to do this.

But Taylor was afraid, especially as it was getting dark, that if one of them didn't change the frequency, they would not be able to hear him because it's getting dark.

They wouldn't be able to see the hand signals that they also used to communicate.

And he might lose that person.

And in a situation like this, if you get separated, much more likely if they have to do something like ditch in the ocean, that you're not going to make it.

So he's thinking the most important thing is keep my flight together.