Originally Posted by
mostlytossas
If he declared a May day as stated perhaps he ran out of fuel waiting for the lights to go on?
Not very likely.
If they left YWMC at 4PM to fly a 148 mile leg to YLEC,- which Desert F states should have taken 1.5 hours, they should have had
plenty of go juice left. They refueled at YWMC and I'm assuming they took on full fuel.