Yes, and with the sun setting, he and his party were delayed from taking off by an hour, supposedly contributing to the "accident."

The night his plane went missing a DC insider gave a phone-in interview on MSNBC in which he claimed he had just flown over the same airspace and it was covered in clouds. Later reports showed that the skies over Martha's Vineyard were clear that night. The man on the phone was obviously spinning the narrative even as the event was unfolding.