I figured out why they are obsessed with flight plans. Part of the human
angle of the story is where the departed was/were going. "They were headed
for a reunion with their long-lost children..." They check on the flight
plan to see if they can wrangle that part of the story out of the relatives.


And, true to form, the ABC station's live-on-the-scene bimbo noted that
they had been unable to determine yet if either plane had filed a flight
plan with the Corona airport. Good grief.