Anyone remember this?
New plastic garbage patch discovered in Indian Ocean | Coastal Care
Instead of running around like a bunch of schoolboys at a footbal match all wanting to have a kick of the ball, heading off for every bit of something a poor satellite photograph coughs up, why don't they fine search the programmed flight path and any viable diversion routes from the point of last contact?
When there's a problem with this size of ac, do the airline pilots disengage the autopilot and fly the ac manually !!! Or is the ap reprogrammed allowing the pilots to deal with the immediate problem?