The real experience must be (mostly) curved with clockwise path or turning right.
Prove it.
Why should the pilot bother to go with multiple reverse "U" minor paths? No such thing happened.
The map you present is just a picture likely made by CNN. It is not the actual journey.
However, if your fantasy was correct, why wouldn't they have done the entire route much further south?
By research on flights anyone will confirm Phew FE Map. Such flight cannot go anywhere else but circling the earth by clockwise. Otherwise the flight wouldn't circle the earth and couldnot return home.
By globe map the route went as if around north to north.
In fact the route path goes clock wise.
I wish there were the timelapse video of that flight.
But other flights analysing are sufficient to predict the path of the said flight.