07-05-2021, 07:21 AM
My understanding is that the HNL controller was working various frequencies so would have been busy even though it was early morning. I think she did a pretty good job, as, I suspect, did the pilots. The one thing that might have made a big difference and avoided all the confusion is if the pilots had declared a mayday. They didn't do that according to the ATC recording and had they done so early on I suspect much of the confusion would have been avoided.