"Good to hear, we had absolute comm loss on our side and our passengers were betting on whether we were still in dath ilan.  We are on course for runway per preplanned route, do you have any idea what happened?"

Somehow it's occurring to him that he had managed not to make any advance plans on what to do or say if this happened, which really goes to show something about where his brain was placing its own internal bets.

"Good to hear, we had absolute comm loss on our side and our passengers were betting on whether we were still in dath ilan.  We are on course for runway per preplanned route, do you have any idea what happened?"

Somehow it's occurring to him that he had managed not to make any advance plans on what to say if this happened, which really goes to show something about where his brain was placing its own internal bets.