The word we heard from MSP center this evening was that the NW flight was out of radio contact from California all the way to Minnesota. I find that hard to believe - surely they would have scrambled fighters to see what was going on after an hour or two.
Thank God for ASAP, huh? I wonder what the public will think when they hear all about how that works, now that we have two flights in two days whose crews jobs will be saved by it.