"Dammit, if we could just fly west we would get home; head west, dammit." Taylor ordered the flight east.
In one of the reconstructions of this "Bermuda Triangle" fake mystery, based on the radio transmissions, that pilot got everyone except the nutjob instructor on the same page and they started heading west, but all were low on fuel. When the "dammit" pilot ran out of fuel and splashed, Taylor got them all to turn east again, to their deaths.