"Slightly persuasive.  I just worry that if this kind of simultaneous comms failure had any mundane explanation in the sense of being prior-predicted by any imaginable state of reality considered previously probable, that prediction would appear in the flight comms handbook, and the flight crew wouldn't be telling us it was a mystery."

"So 5 minutes for the flight crew, 1 minute for us, and a couple of expert-years before this plane ever took off."

"Slightly persuasive.  I just worry that if this kind of simultaneous comms failure had any mundane explanation in the sense of being prior-predicted by any imaginable state of reality considered previously probable, that prediction would appear in the flight handbook, and the crew wouldn't be telling us it was a mystery."

"So 5 minutes for the crew, 1 minute for us, and a couple of dozen expert-years before this plane ever took off."