What about the passengers? Has anyone interviewed them to find out the demeaner of the flight crew (non-pilot) during the hour they lost contact? Were they nervous? Were they nonchalant? Were any of them awake? And by that, I mean crew AND passengers.
Good points.
There so much that stinks about this.
- in a post 9-11 world where yelling at a stewardess can earn you federal charges...fighters were not scrambled despite the lengthy loss of contact and failure to descend at the appropriate time.
- The lightening speed with with their ticket was yanked. Both the Federal Government and the aircraft industry only have two two speeds of operation: glacial and stopped. The incident happened on the 21st and revocation is dated the 27th. http://komonews.s3.amazonaws.com/cheney_Revised.pdf
The 24th and 25th were Sat & Sun, so the whole testimony, review, decision, and notification only took 3 business days?
I think somebody wants this to go away PDQ.