Phát and Đức could not apprehend Khánh, who had escaped the capital and flown to the Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat.[15] Their forces stormed Khánh's office and captured his duty officers but could not find the junta leader.[17] There was then a lull in the movement of troops and units. One Vietnamese public servant said that "All these preparations are the result of a big misunderstanding on both sides. I don't think either group will start anything, but both think the other will."[17] Taylor was on an emergency flight from Honolulu—where he had been in meetings with senior American military figures[23]—back to Saigon and he said the coup "certainly was unannounced and unheralded."[17] In the mid-afternoon Khánh made a radio broadcast on a loyalist system, condemning the coup and calling on the military to remain loyal, claiming that support for the "rebellious leaders" would play into the hands of the Viet Cong.[24]