...entering the Atlantic at around 500 mph, twice his plane's normal airspeed.
...Doesn't sound much like someone who was merely cruising off his course now does it..?
Well, I guess we could ask former Alaska Congressman Nick Begich and former Warren Commission member and senator Hale Boggs, whose Cessna was lost and reportedly never recovered over Alaska in mid October, 1972. But we'll need a Ouija board.
Interestingly, Boggs was running late for the trip that day, and helpfully an intern from the office of Arkansas Congressman Fulbright was reported to have helpfully drove him to the airport to catch the fatal flight. That intern's name was William Jefferson Clinton.
BTW, wasn't Imhofe chairman of the Intelligence committee?