You know it's time for a break when you flip over from here to the QMAP tab to look for any new Q posts.
Link? Haven't seen it just rumors.
Nice find, ATCAnon here, maybe I can shed a little light.
There was weather in the area but that's Houston. This anon worked there at the Center and the weather is always around someplace, sometimes violent.
The rest is mostly normal talk during a weather event at or near the airport. Things get twisted a bit but aside from the requests to listen for ELTs it's all normal.
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By 10:06 the flight is already down but she doesn't know that, just knows it's not talking to her or being tracked anymore.
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The 12:10 transmission is the controller giving someone a traffic advisory (unknown airplane that might be at the same altitude but it doesn't have a transponder so no idea what type or altitude)
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17:10 Someone missed a few calls from ATC. By now controllers are a little skittish about aircraft not answering.
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25:46.. No such time in this dimension so I guess that's the distance into the tape/file? No ground contact means the pilot can't see the ground due to clouds. Asking to go to Ellington in that context usually means bad weather at Hobby airport and the pilot is looking for alternate airports to land.
Haven't listened to any voice tapes yet. Did you hear ANY traffic advisories to the Atlas a minute or so before dropping off radar? That's pretty important.