Taking off to the east. Left turn over houses.
“Left turn over houses.
That turn people are talking about was a little more than just a turn...it was an immelmann and a clean one at that. We haven’t heard the radio transmissions but that type of turn is the fastest way to reverse heading and could have taken them back over the runway the quickest. It could have been an effort to take a downwind landing with a sick aircraft that they ultimately lost altogether. But that’s just an educated guess.
rwood