ABC showed the flight path. The plane should have flown E, and then SE from Kennedy airport and arched down to the Deminican Republic.
Why was the plane going SW? The UN is west!
The plane was off it's flight path.
West and NORTH, according to your own map; go buy a clue.
The plane was off it's flight path.
Well, DUH, yeah. The ground certainly wasn't on the flight plan two minutes after takeoff. If you lose control of a plane, do you expect it to stay on course?
SIDs are canned routings that vector them a predetermined series of radio navigational fixes in order to avoid other aircraft, noise abatement, a/c from other airports, etc. They use another set called STARs, Standard Terminal Arrival Routes when landing.
For example, one SID from ISP (Islip, Long Island, NY) for aircraft going to Florida takes you about half way to NYC, then back towards Montalk Point (far Eastern end of Long Island before turning southwest to Florida, climbing the entire time.
SIDs change by runway in use, other factors. The AA crash location is not a factor in determining destiation and to say it was headed toward UN because of where it crashed is wild speculation.
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