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We didn't have any radios.
The airplane was dead.
And we started hunting.
You know, flashlights came out.
The first officer was out.
He's looking at the circuit breakers in the back.
We were trying to figure out how could everything go bad.
And in about 10 minutes, it came back.
And everything like, you know, the horizons didn't work.
They'd spun down and the gyros don't.
worked that well then, but we were able to successfully go into Erie.
We were pretty close.
And the airplane sat there for three days as they tracked down the problem of maintenance.
They tore the airplane apart.
And they did find it finally, and they got it repaired.
But, you know, imagine if that's your data link to that aircraft.
Gosh.
And, yeah, everything goes blank, you know.
And the airplanes, they work a lot, and they're in a very extreme environment at times.
You know, we're going up where, you know, you've got storms.