The Doomsday Plane was circling Lake Superior before the air quality collapsed.
That aircraft is built for continuity of government, secure military command and operations during catastrophic events.
So the sinister question is obvious:
Were they simply watching the disaster develop, or were they already positioned because the disaster was expected?
Repeated laps over a massive freshwater basin, cross border infrastructure and a region about to disappear under smoke look less like random training and more like advance posture.
The darkest possibility is that the aircraft was there to maintain command, monitor the region and secure strategic communications while a manufactured or deliberately unmanaged emergency unfolded below.
The flight path alone does not prove intent.
But when the emergency aircraft arrives before the emergency becomes visible to the public, people are justified in asking who knew what, and when.
Timothy J. Keller, husband, father, grandfather, mentor, friend, pastor, and scholar died this morning at home. Dad waited until he was alone with Mom. She kissed him on the forehead and he breathed his last breath. We take comfort in some of his last words...