NASA reported Progress M1-3 as making a retro-rocket firing 2000 November 1 at 07:05 GMT, and a re-entry between the island groups of Fiji and the Solomon Islands - a relatively-densely populated area of the Pacific Ocean. This gives the approximate location as 160 degrees East longitude and 16 degrees South latitude.

The location given seems to be an error as it does not lie beneath the ground track of Progress M-31's final circuit of the Earth. However, a re-entry above 160 degrees West longitude, 16 degrees South latitude does fit with Progress M1-3's trajectory.

As the map below shows - from the location of retro-fire just south of the Aral Sea, Progress M1-3 passed over the central Asian land mass, across the Japanese island of Hokkaido and then over open Ocean to a re-entry above the southern Pacific near Tahiti and the Cook Islands at 07:40 GMT: