or New Amsterdam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Amsterdam
Location: S37.84E77.55
3349 miles from the estimated point of turn south —
out of reach but could have been a target destination
Was this the island on his simulator that caused the investigators to draw up the first 450knot [518mph] flight path???
518mph x 5.7 hours = 2952 miles — short by 397 miles but perhaps close enough to try.
It would have had to have flown for another 48 minutes [.8 hours] to reach the island — which would have been doable — and still be down 12 minutes before the next hourly Inmarsat ping.
At 20:11 and about S4.0E93 after 1701 miles [318 + 229 + 334 + 569 + 251] @485mph and 3.5 hours he would have realized that he did not have the fuel to make it to New Amsterdam Island [S37.84E77.55] — another 2362 miles — and broken it off — but to where???
to the east —