Originally Posted by
megan
Why? It's miles off track, whereas the Alice is on track, if he's going great circle it would put him 27nm abeam, but I'll assume he was planned overhead on the airway.
Close to Derby when they turned around as shown on Flight Aware.
Derby - Alice ~694nm
Derby - Darwin ~ 516nm
Monsoon season so DRW weather might have been not so good.
I wonder why Broome was discounted?