Comment on "There I was flying along when this thing almost killed me ..."
There is a tower dead ahead, but the top is well below the horizon, you would have passed above it ok.Comment on "The daredevil pilots of Colombia - the vintage Douglas DC-3 plane"
Yes, real flying and the pilot decision freedomComment on "Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?"
I wasn't really thinking about phone calls per se, just tower pings or gps fixes that may have turned up if they indeed landed somewhere.