Reply #19: Hour and a half, according to the official records. [View All]

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/AAB0001.htm

At 0933:38 EDT (6 minutes and 20 seconds after N47BA acknowledged the previous clearance), the controller instructed N47BA to change radio frequencies and contact another Jacksonville ARTCC controller. The controller received no response from N47BA. The controller called the flight five more times over the next 4 1/2 minutes but received no response.

About 0952 CDT, a USAF F-16 test pilot from the 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, was vectored to within 8 nm of N47BA.

From the time of the first failed contact to the approach of the fighter pilot is an hour and 19 minutes - about an hour and a half. So much for the Payne Stewart excursion, which you still haven't explained the reason why you think it's relevant.

BeFree: The key piece of evidence is the fact that they had NO radar blip from what they believed to be flt. 77 for some time, and then a blip appeared and they guessed it was flt 77. THEY GUESSED! Even now, years fter the event, all they can come up with is a guess. Shameful.

The blip that did appear is, was, and remains, a UFO. What say yee about that?

Do you know how they guessed it was Flight 77? When they went to the site where the blip had crashed, they found the remains of Flight 77, passengers and all. It wasn't hard to figure out.