Zero zero, the jumbo jet graveyard
MORE on the occupants of the mysterious “zero zero” map location at 0° north by 0° west, which lies in the Atlantic to the south of Ghana (31 October 2009). John Relph tells us that he was an airline ground mechanic in the 1970s when 747 jumbo jets were introduced. He heard flight crews refer to zero zero as the “jumbo graveyard”.
“The Carousel inertial navigation system used magnetic core memory and space was very limited,” he explains. “Flight crews had to load new waypoints in flight and due to system problems, once in a while they inadvertently loaded…
