At the beginning of the movie, the island is said to be 120 miles west of Costa Rica. But at the end of the movie, they are flying towards the sunset! Everyone knows the sun sets in the west! They were going the wrong way! They should have been going east.
And even if you're on a flight going east, pilots often take off in the opposite direction, the west, then do a wide U-turn. Presumably because of wind direction and speed, and so on. You wouldn't want to take off straight into a stiff wind, I wouldn't think. Pilots sometimes take wide arcs in order to get the best approach to a landing pad or airport, or to avoid heavy air traffic areas, as well. So initially heading west, even if they were going to Costa Rica, isn't necessarily a slip.
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