For the answer to the question above, so at the instant, the acceleration of the airplane is southward, the direction of the velocity is also southward. The direction should be the same because it is both a vector quantity and it does not make sense if the direction and acceleration have different direction.
The kinetic energy before equals K after
The kinetic energy is given by:

We know the mass and the maximum speed, plugging their values in the expression above we have:

Therefore, the answer is d.
weight is vector vary from place to place
Even though the wind "tries" to flow from high pressure to low pressure, the turning of the Earth causes the air flow to turn to the right (in the Northern Hemisphere), so the jet stream flows around the air masses, rather than directly from one to the other.