The twenty‑one‑degree turn that outpaced their descent time
A routine regional flight over West Java turns twenty-one degrees off course into worsening weather-did the crew see the mountain in time?The twenty‑one‑degree turn that outpaced their descent timeIn this episode, we follow the final sixteen silent minutes of Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 and the decisions that led a two‑year‑old CN‑235 to stray from its intended heading. We trace the crew’s request to switch to visual flight rules, their routing through convective cells, and the moment the recorded heading diverged by twenty‑one degrees-what could that deviation mean for those on…
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