Originally Posted by NJGov

I think you might be referring to this incident.. The report came out a year ago on the news but the incident occurred in March 2004.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...68/detail.html
FWIW the airbus box on a 320 series won't fly circles around the last point unless the box was programmed to do so by a database arrival procedure.

Normally, the aircraft would fly into a discontinuity at the "end" of the flight plan and continue on present heading indefinitely