[ARC5] USAF usage of the A.R.C. R-22 BCB receiver

[Hubert Miller]

"In the early-1990's a Brazilian 737 crashed in the Amazon jungle when the pilots misread the 27.0 degrees course on their flight plan as 270 degrees and ran out of gas while trying to use the ADF to find their destination but choosing the station on the basis of what had coverage of a major soccer game that was going on.  They could not get the VOR at the destination because they were over 400 miles off course."

400 miles off course over South America. When i read that, i thought, "Where are they getting these jockeys?"  400 miles off course over South
America ? I thought of KAL Flight  902, in 1978, which was seriously, i mean seriously disoriented, but that was ostensibly blamed on navigation
equipment failure. Still, no other check of course? I looked up KAL 007, 1983, but there seems to have been blame to assign all around in that
case. I also remember reading a US aviation history magazine about a B-29 lost over Alaska, apparently the high latitude ionospherics had disabled
both navigation and communications; in that case, the crew heard over the DF radio Russian folk music, which gave them a good clue they were
way off course.
-Hue Miller