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puddin:
Happy 500th post Neobie!!!  :cheesehead :conf: :keeta: :roses: :pickle: :wtg: :luvx

apskip:
Neobie,
Congratulations on your 500th post! It's a major accomplishment because your posts have a high quality density.

I want to debate your conclusion that the last 5 teams stayed at Sheremetyevo and left on the 910am arriving flight. With a half hour to get the camera/sound equipment off and set up and one hour minimum to get to the dam, they would be there no sooner than 1040am on your scenario. Mark/Michael would have been searching for the house or working at the Construct since before 0900am so that's about 100 minutes. I cannot believe that on a DETOUR they would not have finished up and found the house on their own long before anyone else arrived. Also, the fact that there is daylight as the second plane was landing does not rule out a 645am arrival. Sunrise was apparently 1 hour 24 minutes later. This is not an odds-on bet but it is not impossible.

How do you know that those 5 teams took SU781? Until some questioner hears from Amanda/Kris, there is probably no way to know for sure.

I think your explanation of what happened at Sheremetyevo is plausible, but here is the amount of time teams arriving there had to connect if arrived on time:

Sofia 4.5 hours
Frankfurt 1.75 hours
Munich 2.5 hours
Istanbul 3.5 hours

Except for Frankfurt, that's ample time for customs, transfers and security.

puddin:
 :tup:


--- Quote ---Amanda: Yeah, well first of all we missed the flights. In Russia apparently it takes three hours to go through customs and we weren't expecting that. We had an hour-and-a-half gap to go through customs and we thought that would be plenty of time, and it wasn't. However as you noticed we weren't the only team to make that mistake. Everyone except for three teams missed the flight. So that was the first thing that put us behind.

Kris: When we were in Transylvania we were at the airport and there was tons of different flights to choose from, and it was kinda our job to pick and choose which flight we wanted, and we decided to connect through Frankfurt because we thought it was kind of a busier airport. We thought we'd get through it a lot quicker and not get held up, but it turns out that we didn't time the timing in Russia right, so it put us in the back of the pack.

Reality TV World: You said that the delay on the flight was caused by customs?

Amanda: Yes.

Kris: Yeah, in Russia.

Reality TV World: Did you even come close to making the connecting flight out of Moscow?

Kris: Well we were sitting in this little waiting room for hours on end just looking at our clocks, because we were there an hour-and-a-half before our flight was supposed to leave so we thought we were gonna be okay. It just ended up taking a really long time. And we ended up seeing all the other teams there and we were all bummed out, we were like "Oh gosh, this sucks we kinda got screwed."

Reality TV World: How far behind that first 5:40AM arrival flight was the one that you and the other four teams ended up flying on?

Kris: It was about four hours difference.

Amanda: Yeah, three or four hours difference. We knew that the three teams would be the first ones were in good shape.
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--- Quote ---Reality TV World: Do you know how far behind [Mark and Michael Munoz] you finished?

Kris: Like 10 minutes.

Amanda: Yeah, the production said 10 minutes. 
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RTVW

DrRox:
Congradulations on the 500th, Neobie. As usual, your analysis is spot on!!!!

puddin:

--- Quote from: DrRox on March 09, 2009, 07:56:00 PM ---Congradulations on the 500th, Neobie. As usual, your analysis is spot on!!!!

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