The information on the satellite tracking of the plane, at least explained by some “expert” on Hannity tonight, was highly suspect - apparently the tracking was done from a geosynchronous satellite, with the distance from it to the plane and the plane’s direction being determined by the timing and Doppler of the seven or eight pings picked up by the satellite over the length of the flight - the plot of such tracking should then be a target of rings with the satellite in the center and the distances to the plane represented by the radii of the rings - but the track of the plane which was depicted in the demonstration tonight was that which has been shown in the press for days - a single arc beginning around Malaysia and ending in the middle of the Indian Ocean - this would mean the plane would have had to have flown for five to eight hour at exactly the same distance from the satellite all the way - highly unlikely - there’s also some vague discussion of comparing some sort of patterns of known flights to those picked up with 370, and thus being able to rule out the northern flight path, which of course would have also been possible by continuing the southern arc northward on around the satellite, but it’s not really obvious by what’s public just how those comparisons would work - by this data, it’s not convincing at all that the plane is down in the southern Indian Ocean....
Oh, God.
Yes, it is. From mathematical data it has been shown to have flown south from their satellite and not north. That is why, by the way, it has not crossed any radar set to the north, or landed at any airport to the north that can handle it, or, slammed into any target of choice in any arc north of their in the last two weeks.
It’s pretty clear that it is gone. In the Indian Ocean. Why or who we don’t know but the “where” is pretty clear now. It’s not good, but it is what it is.
Damn crying shame too...