Interesting story. I suspect that thinking the last sight of land was in the Keys, Taylor thought he was somewhere over Florida Bay/Gulf of Mexico and headed NNE thinking he would encounter the Everglades. The sad reality is that the last island they passed over was in the Bahamas and by going NNE, the flight went way out into the Atlantic. By the time Taylor decided to head West, they didn’t have fuel to make land and went down somewhere between the Sargasso Sea and land..
Yeah, I’m not very impressed by this story. A lead pilot got lost, got the whole wing of rookies in trouble, and then kept simply flying back and forth burning fuel.