Initial reports claimed that a distress call was radioed from the plane at 10 47am, a strangely long time after the plane disappeared from flight-tracking websites.
"Yes, I think we've found it," he radioed back to base.
MINUTES after the Sewol, a South Korean ferry, began to list before sinking on April 16th, a schoolboy made its first distress call to the emergency services before even the crew had radioed for help.
No astronaut ever radioed laconically back from a crippled spaceship, "Manhattan, we have a problem".
After the plane takes off, the pilot announces that he has just been radioed to modify the flight path through Beijing, say.
When the astronauts learned from Houston of the stage's impact, Swigert radioed back, "Well, at least something worked on this flight.…I'm sure glad we didn't have an LM [Lunar Module] impact too!" About two hours later the descent stage propulsion system of the lunar module was ignited for 5 seconds at 10 percent throttle, 21 seconds at 40 percent throttle, and almost 4 minutes at full throttle.
When a German submarine found an Allied convoy, it radioed the convoy's location to its headquarters so that other submarines could be sent to join the attack.
Noting that one of the main electrical systems aboard was degrading, Haise and Lovell radioed the information to mission control in Houston, quickly turning a routine flight into one of the most exciting episodes in space history.
Armstrong then radioed at 4 17 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), "Houston, Tranquility Base here.
But this is no ad hominem assault; the real story of the film belongs to Bradley Manning, a conscience-stricken Army private who in 2010 leaked video footage of a US gunship in Baghdad killing two children, two Reuters journalists and several others who happened to be standing by (the shooter's radioed commentary to base is sickening).
As the van left, officers radioed colleagues some distance away and ordered a armed "hard stop" in an effort to stop him.
