Originally Posted by
satpak77
agree just wondering why not the "direct to nearest" airport option on the GPS was not used, if installed. They requested the RNAV approach, so I assume some sort of GPS avionics were installed.
Given that they completely ignored the RNAV approach they were cleared to fly and dropped in 6 miles early... the fact that they were disoriented enough to have issues with what you point out is not surprising. What caused that is the big question.