Ka 007
Watched a program last night on Discovery wings about ka007 shoot down.
Haveing operated the type myself I find it inconcievable that somebody would leave navigational mode switch in heading and not realise it for hours.
However I'm not familiar with the old ins they were using. They were giveing position reports for positions they were not actually at.
My question is the alert light on the ins illuminates when approaching a way point. Is that a function of distance travelled and the crew were simply calling position reports in response to this????
Or does the alert light go off when actually approaching a waypoint.
Of course there is the posibillity the ins was miss aligned to begin with??????