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22:41 — S25E91.5 — 519 miles @519mph [autopilot likely disengaged here]

24:11 — S36E90.5 — 762 miles @508mph [same heading but slower mph and doable but outside the search area]


56 posted on 06/29/2014 10:36:29 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Flight path northwest on page 8 puts MH370 at ~N6.6E96.3 at 18:22. So let’s add it all in to see what it looks like:

16:41 — KLA N2.73E101.71 to points of turnaround — IGARI [17:19] then to N7E103.5 [17:21] totalling 325 miles.

17:21 — N7E103.5 — on heading west

—— — N5.3E100.3 — 250 miles Penang Island where it turns NW.

18:22 — N6.6E96.3 — 289 miles NW of Penang Island. 539 miles covered by that point averaging 530mph.

18:29 — N6.85E95.45 [turning point southwest] — 61 miles @530mph.

19:41 — S2E93 — 634 miles @528mph

20:41 — S9.75E92.5 — 536 miles @536mph

21:41 — S17.5E92 — 536 miles @536mph

22:41 — S25.25E91.5 — 536 miles @536mph [autopilot had to have been disengaged about here to slow the speed and/or change course eastward to the rising sun]

24:11 — S36E90.5 — 745 miles @496mph [same line slower speed]. Total to this point 3895 miles.

24:11 — S30E97.5 — 527 miles @351mph [eastward and slower speed to search area]. Total to this point 3677 miles.

24:11 — S27.5E100 — 583 miles @389mph [eastward and slower speed to search area]. Total to this point 3733 miles.

No matter which way it ends on the 2411 Arc the autopilot would have had to been accessed at ~22:41 to change speed and/or direction and there would have been enough fuel onboard to fly further than the 2411 Arc and even the 2419 Arc — thus meaning that a live pilot may have crashed it at that point or tried to land it unsuccessfully in the water. It’s not likely to have run out of fuel on autopilot.


57 posted on 06/30/2014 9:33:33 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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