Originally Posted by
hoss183
Tame at that point, but look at the whole track, they deviated several times around storms after Forteleza, and data shows several periods of incorrect (307 & 84 kt) IAS mid ocean. Those 2 values reoccur just before the divert, looks like an instrumentation fault and fallback values.
Well spotted - definitely something fishy there !
That being said they seem to have passed Porto when they elected to divert so whatever reason they had it seems it actually escalated at that point.
And they are back flying now...