Re: 301 Russell flight path
Here’s a scenario. Imagine the missile launch pad (remember the Indonesia trip) from which a missile had been previously fired needed a pretense to be taken out.
Also, what is comms procedure for a situation like this. They switch immediately to an encrypted channel, right? He certainly didn’t sound suicidal to me.
If that’s right, then it may also be plausible that the comms were pre-recorded.
More for thought. Might the Q400 been remotely piloted?
And, there was a more updated graphic that I saw that has a subtle(depending on you POV) difference. I can’t find it right now, but remember seeing it on spaceshot76’s youtube channel last day or so.
The communications could have been pre-recorded or maybe he was speaking from a remote location and wasn’t even on the plane.
And how would you get the suicidal guy to change frequencies? By what method would you 'encrypt' the radio transmissions from the airliner?
NAS = National Air Force Base? Woodbury Island?