You guys make excellent points, I do remember this mishap during her attempted takeoff from Honolulu, it is true that perhaps she wasn't that skilled in the Electra, I was referring to her rather excellent flight record in her prior years. Regarding her course keeping - therefore I was wondering to what extent Noonan's navigation could 'reset' errors that were building up during such long leg, like I said I found it strange that with all the attention her trip garnered, with a few people literally spending years of their life researching her fate, no one really (to my knowledge) presented a comprehensive, mathematical justification of what they attempted (I am a mathematician/physicist, hence my obsession
. But I don't think there was any plan B and with the distance they planed to cover and with scarcity of land - it is hard to come up with any sensible plan B.