A dramatization of how the Civil Air Patrol conducts a mission for a missing aircraft. Air crews and Ground teams work together to find missing pilots and bring them home.
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Sound of Air traffic control chatter
First air traffic controller: "Push it up...way up...that's it"
Pilot: "We're going down!"
Sound of crash as heard over the radio.
Second air traffic controller: "You never saw him?"
First air traffic controller: "Negative."
Second air traffic controller: "He didn't land?"
First air traffic controller: "Negative."
Second air traffic controller: "God..."
First air traffic controller: "I don't have him. He called me once and I told him to land, told him "not in sight," I don't have him."
Second air traffic controller: "Well, he must have crashed, then."
CAP Flight 540: "Cap Flight 605, this is CAP Flight 540, we are enroute to search area for downed aircraft. Do you have any hits with the Hyperspectral Imaging System?"
CAP Flight 605: "That's affirmative, CAP Flight 540. We have several hits and are sending you those chips and GPS locations to you via e-mail over the sat phone."
CAP Flight 540: "Roger, that, CAP Flight 605, we are downloading that info and are in the search pattern, ready to use the satellite digital imaging system, over."
CAP Flight 605: "Good luck, CAP Flight 540. CAP Flight 605, out."
CAP Flight 540: "Ground control, this is CAP Flight 540, we have the digital images and we are transmitting you those via e-mail for the ground team. CAP Flight 540, out."
Ground team member, shouting: "This is Civil Air Patrol, do you need help?"
Ground team member: "We have confirmed find, over."
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