Reply #36: which link? [View All]

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I quoted directly from mine, and the times are as given. The 20 minutes between loss of contact and interception is between times from two different time zones.

In fact, when I went back to my link I noticed that the footnote offers an explanation, saying the time of interception, 0952 CDT, was "about 1010 EDT, the accident airplane crossed from the EDT zone to the CDT zone in the vicinity of Eufaula, Alabama."

http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/AAB0001.htm#P66_7141 (footnote 7)

So it was more like 40 minutes, not the 20 claimed. I should've been more careful and made that clear in my first post, but the 20 minutes claim is still incorrect.