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Originally Posted by billywatson
My only issue is what I call the "Payne Stewart argument": in '99, pro golfer Payne Stewart's private jet ran into problems, and (I'll leave technical details out), within 10 minutes, F-16's were scrambled to see what was going down and to accompany the jet until it ran out of fuel and crashed.
How do commercial airliners, two years later, pull 180's and head back to major urban areas after being in the air for 45+ minutes and not one single jet is dispatched?
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I remember when this happened but don't know the full details of that flight, but this is talking about an hour and 20 minutes. It's also saying that there was failure to respond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne_Stewart#Death
The pilot did not respond to air traffic controllers, an hour and 20 minutes later they were being escorted.