Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Rot at the controls

It then changed its course, flying southeast; not toward Anchorage located at 61°10′N 149°59′W, but in the opposite direction toward Murmansk at 68°58′N 33°5′E. The aircraft was not fitted with an inertial navigation system, and the pilots failed to note the position of the sun, almost 180 degrees off from where it should have been. According to the official Korean explanation, the pilots in their navigation calculations used the wrong sign of magnetic declination when converting between magnetic and true headings.

Plus minus, Minsk Pinsk, says Rot. It's all the same, modulo \lesssims.

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