Walter
<p>Their turn from 027 to 035 at waypoint change, for which there is evidence that it was deliberate......</p> <br />
...sorry but there was NO RIGHT TURN after waypoint change.......
..this is a myth started I think by the Fellow from Boeing but few people bother to check his calculations........
..the only evidence for a turn to the right is the Lat.and Long. for the crash site as compared to the Lat.Long. for waypoint change.........but everyone forgets that the numbers for the waypoint change are from the GPS source........
If the A/C were at the
absolute , correct and exact Lat.&Long. to WGS84 standard , when the change was made there might be a grain of truth in it ...........but we know that a few seconds later there was a significant GPS offset error of hundreds of metres , guiding them North and East of the true location.
Once we factor this in , plus the offtrack error where they had drifted to right of track (hence the heading of 018 degrees to steer to waypoint 'A' ), which is another 200 feet at least at this range , you will find that flying straight on takes one to the point of impact ...
regards to all on this sad anniversary.........
Robin....