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Old 22nd February 2017 | 01:03
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andrewr
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I'm confused about the location and direction. Has it been confirmed whether he crashed immediately after takeoff, or attempting some sort of return to the airport?

The crash site appears to be about 300m from runway centreline. The footage shown on the news it looks like the aircraft was wings level, descending around 150m? from runway centreline. It looks like the direction of travel was almost 90 degrees to the runway.

I don't see how you can turn almost 90 degrees and be wings level within 150m of the runway. Likewise if he was maneuvering to return I don't really understand how you would end up in that location without a good opportunity to put it on a runway. Very strange.

Maybe the footage is misleading? In any case I am sure that the flight path is well documented and will come out in due course.
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