Originally Posted by
Winemaker
Why on earth would they want to do a 360° turn?
I said 360 as it is supposed to have happened just after takeoff and looking at the heading it would have been a glorified circuit to put it back into wind onto the runway without having to do some serious banking at low altitude to get back onto a runway which in effect was directly behind them, plus the radar track shows that. I assume the last turn away was to set it up for the inevitable ditching
