They ask the pilots of the other planes but their instruments were malfunctioning too. Lt Charles Carol Taylor was the squadron leader, after the compass broke down, utterly confusing messages were sent over radio transmission. Taylor says –
The weather starts worsening. At 4:56 in the evening, Taylor believes that their planes were flying over the Gulf of Mexico. And that they needed to fly east to get back to Florida. So he commanded the rest of the planes to fly east. But some of the crew abroad the flight believed that they were already flying east of Florida.
