I grew up in Hialeah and the guy across the street from us was actually station at ft Lauderdale when that happened. It was before my time, however, the story has always fascinated me. IMHO Taylor was either sick or hungover and shouldn’t of even been in the air that day. They ran out of fuel and ditched, Gulfstream took the survivors north of the search area.
He was just bad at reading a compass. He did the same “take a turn and think you are 100 miles away” thing in the Pacific while flying off a carrier. Sadly, this time he took the whole flight with him.