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To: Mastador1
Maybe the plane is in Pakistan just like some people have said.

Nope. Even if the plane did a soft belly landing, didn't breakup and maintained its air seal thereby permitting it to float and the weather had been doldrumlike the entire time, the search area is enormous. I seem to remember that based on the last signal received by the Inmarsat satellite, the initial search area over the south Indian Ocean was about the size of Alaska.

Now, let's assume the plane broke up on impact and further assume that any debris has been moved by wind and currents an average of 3mph. That's 3mph x 24hrs/day = 72 miles per day. In one week that debris will have moved 72 x 7 = 504 miles. In three weeks it will have moved 504 miles x 3 weeks = 1,512 miles.

After three weeks, any debris still floating will be widely dispersed that.

20 posted on 03/29/2014 8:27:50 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

Perhaps someday something will wash up on shore. If someone has this plane, I would think we would have some hard information about it by now. This plane is a complex beast and requires maintenance. If they have some intended purpose for it, they will use it sooner rather than later. It’s most likely crashed somewhere. How perplexing that a aircraft with state of the art communications could just vanish without a trace.


27 posted on 03/29/2014 8:40:58 AM PDT by virgil
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As I understand it, the last radar returns showed it turned twice, with the last turn heading to India. The only reason we are searching where we are is that the pings to Inmarsat were decoded and the time shifts proved that at some time after the last radar “paint” the dead or unconscious “person” at the controls took control and headed south. Or the auto-pilot
(HAL) took control. Am I correct?


30 posted on 03/29/2014 8:43:57 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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