BOAC:
- this is getting weirder and weirder, since the last sighting of the a/c was supposedly gear down over Islam. If these facts are correct it would hint at total spatial disorientation, such that some sort of 'downwind' checks were done while heading for the hills which would suggest the Captain was 'certain' he was in the circling pattern and certain that he 'knew' where he was..
That is a very big
IF. Facts are always correct or they aren't facts.