He chose an Australian man,Harold Gatty, to do the mathematics that decided the plane's direction.

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First, you'll have to schlep hand luggage on and off the plane multiple times in each direction.

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He said it appeared the plane was going in the general direction of the airport, but not directly toward it.

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Not that Boeing is publicly jumping on any scapegoats to wholly blame for the worldwide grounding of its 787 Dreamliners after the Federal Aviation Agency ( FAA ) issued an emergency airworthiness direction (AD) in response to a battery fire that forced an All Nippon Airways plane to make an emergency landing in Japan on January 16.

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