don’t they have cameras and radar tapes from all these international airports, can’t they pin down the time with those?
0300 and dense fog. All the runway camera caught was a blur and a fireball.
I was an air traffic controller for 20 years. There may be cameras, because it seems like there are cameras everywhere, but are somewhat limited. I worked with radar too, and unless they have made some advances in technology, I never knew of any radar that recorded anything. When I was at Tempelhof, in Berlin, (1982) there was a VCR camera pointed at a scope, to recored when the Russians were violating their airspace. Air to ground radio is recorded, but not radar.