Originally Posted by
StickWithTheTruth
A bingo fuel situation is vastly different to what you have described above. If you know your range and your reserves and you can't find your destination, you turn around and return to your last or a known good / findable location.
Especially when ditching would likely mean imminent death.
In today’s aviation easy! GPS, but back then......
I’m lucky I’m old enough to have flown pre GPS but still with relatively modern means and certainly no loooooooooong overwater sextant stars or whatever style of navigation. As has been said, cloudy, different winds, even well whatever.
Look at MH 370 and that’s this century and still can’t find it and it WAS under positive radar control for a while and who knows how much longer than we have ever been told.
Keep cracking and as said above finding any wreck is worthwhile. Theory’s are just that until proven otherwise, simple solution here is help raise money to find this PNG wreck! No harm no foul.