How did the plane make a perfect U turn over NY to fly over DC?
I don't know about planes or automatic pilot, but a review of the flight path looks like the plane was returning to its point of origin.
Is it possible that the autopilot can detect if nobody is at the controls and return the plane to its origin in an emergency?
The fact that DC was on the flight path back to its Virginia origination is coincidental.
-PJ
Yes-very weird. Would like to know how that happened.