two additional turns. one sends them up to the northwest, the other one sends them down to the south to the area where we re searching. so in the heat of that battle as it were, would they have put in extra waypoints or stored waypoints? even those stored waypoints didn t make any sense or take him to an airport close by. unfortunately that s where this theory tend to fall down. there must have been something else going on. and richard, as you look at the map and you and i were looking at it, it does look as if there s an argument to be made that the plane was perhaps trying to avoid indonesian air space. yes. if you actually look at the map an running the animation now, that turn that miles was talking about to the northwest and then to the south, it s not just a that last turn south appears to avoid indonesian air space dlindli