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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I think the actual crash did take place way off course. If memory serves, the pilots in the first episode were suddenly aware that they were nowhere they were supposed to be, just before the crash. Can't recall if they sent some sort of distress message, but if they did so, and it was received, the faked crash would need to stay in line... ?

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It did crash off course but not that far off course. They were flying on course for 6 hours(about 3 thousand miles) when they lost radio contact and turned west to attempt emergency landing at Fiji. 2 hours(1 thousand miles) later they crashed.

In order for them to have crashed where they reported that they did, they would have had to been of course(and flying about 110(maybe 108) degrees in the wrong direction right from the moment they took off from Sydney.

PILOT: (panting) Six hours in, our radio went out. No one could see us. We
turned back to land in Fiji. By the time we hit turbulence, we were a thousand
miles off course. They're looking for us in the wrong place.

Looking at a world map(Pacific Centered) it's easy to see how ridiculously off their flight was.......on a smaller scale it would be like a Flight from San Diego to New York crashing in Alaska.