Eight years and eight months? Try 31 years since the actual shooting.

As for the rest I think it's been put to bed in 2005 but for the record, if I was a covert op pilot pretending to be a civvy airliner I wouldn't just ignore anything and everything, I'd play it like I was really lost.

It's still going 9 years after Subnuts posted this :o

Strike 1

If only you could see into the future...:o