At first, Officer contol began frantically calculating if they could still reach their intended emergency landing spot at Winnipeg, using the mechanical backup instruments on board to figure out their altitude and measuring that against the distance traveled that they were traveling, provided by air traffic control and he figured out that they had dropped 5000 ft in altitude in Onley 10 nautical miles of gliding, which meant that Winnipeg was too far away.
一開始,康托爾軍官開始瘋狂地計算他們是否還能到達預定的溫尼伯緊急降落點,他利用機上的機械備份儀器計算出他們的高度,並將其與空中交通管制部門提供的他們的飛行距離進行對比測量,他計算出他們在昂利10海里的滑翔中已經下降了5000英尺的高度,這意味著溫尼伯太遠了。